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Katherine Watson, Karine Deshayes, Reinoud van Mechelen, Le Concert Spirituel & Hervé Niquet - L'opéra des opéras (2019) [CD Rip]

Katherine Watson, Karine Deshayes, Reinoud van Mechelen, Le Concert Spirituel & Hervé Niquet - L'opéra des opéras (2019) [CD Rip]
  • Title: L'opéra des opéras
  • Year Of Release: 2019
  • Label: Alpha
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, scans)
  • Total Time: 1:14:08
  • Total Size: 451 MB
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To celebrate 30 years of the Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet pays homage to the French musical patrimony of the 17th and 18th centuries, to whose exploration he remains passionately devoted. In close collaboration of Benoit Dratwicki and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles – which has also feted its 30th anniversary in 2018 – together they have devised an intriguingly unconventional programme idea. Following the example of Louis XIV who in 1671 asked Lully to create a Ballet of ballets consisting of extracts from the thirty or so ballets that the composer had put on at court, they have conceived An Imaginary Opera, a veritable ‘Opera of Operas’: around thirty extracts, with well-known repertoire alongside rarities – some completely unknown and unpublished – have been put together to create a plot centred around three dramatic archetypes of the period: a princess in love, a witch queen – her rival – and a courageous prince. All the themes of French baroque opera are illustrated in turn, according to the rules of the genre: battle, tempest, sorcery, love duets, religious invocations, and sleep… The virtuoso arias, dazzling ballets and imposing ceremonial choruses are by Lully and Rameau, naturally – but also by Campra, Marais, Bertin de La Doué, Destouches, Stück, Gervais, Colin de Blamont, Rebel, Francoeur, Montéclair, Leclair and Dauvergne… Brilliantly brought to life by the very finest of today’s baroque lyric artists, this recording was made at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. And to illustrate the CD of this festive pastiche of a princess, a prince and a witch, what more appropriate than the famous trio from the 1970s series Bewitched, the 254-episode legendary TV classic!


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  • tommy554
  •  wrote in 05:52
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very funny ! i don't understand this (false) sleeve which represent the characters of BEWITCHED : Bewitched is an well-known American television sitcom fantasy series...anyway, beautifil picture !
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  • Rabisox
  •  wrote in 17:19
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(the cover is real mauvais goût, but the gallimaufrey is good!)

Quote: tommy554
very funny ! i don't understand this (false) sleeve which represent the characters of BEWITCHED : Bewitched is an well-known American television sitcom fantasy series...anyway, beautifil picture !

In this “opera of operas”, there is a princess, a prince, a witch, so the cover is an allusion (I guess for anglosaxon amateurs).