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2023-09-14 06:23:00
Tragédie lyrique given with great sympathy and style: Passion from Véronique Gens with Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
Passion - Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: bayreuth.media)Passion: Lully, Henry Desmarest, André Cardinal Destouches, Rebel, Charpentier; Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas; Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival at Ordenskirche St GeorgenImmense style and mesmerising performances in the wonderful selection of music from tragédies lyriques by Lully and his contemporariesVéronique Gens recorded her programme Passion with Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Les Surprises in 2021. It is an exploration of music written for two singers who inspired Lully, Mademoiselle Saint Christophe and Marie Le Rochois, focussing on music by Lully and his younger contemporaries.Véronique Gens, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Les Surprises brought Passion to the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival and performed it on Sunday 10 September 2023 in the splendour of the Ordenskirche St Georgen, Bayreuth. Véronique Gens was joined by an instrumental ensemble of eleven, directed from the harpsichord and organ by Louis-Noel Bestion […]
2021-09-27 06:47:57
From Rinaldo to Amadigi di Gaula: a look at Handel's highly experimental early London period
[…] chronology to May 1715. The impetus for the opera may have been the return to London of the castrato Nicolini. Nicolini first visited London in 1708, created the title roles in Rinaldo and in Amadigi di Gaula. This latter opera also returns to a French source, but there is a stronger hand on the adaptation of the French opera into Italian. The source is Antoine Houdar de la Motte's libretto for Amadis de Grece written by Andre Destouches for the Paris Opera in 1699 (and revived during the early years of the 18th century), itself partly inspired by Lully and Quinault's Amadis de Gaule of 1684. The anonymous Italian librettist compressed the French text into three acts, but included a number of spectacular episodes, akin to those in Rinaldo and Teseo, which might suggest why the subject was chosen. Whilst the aria placing in Amadigi di Gaula is stronger than in Teseo, it completely conforms […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-12-09 14:30:00
Lucette Destouches, Widow Of Paul Céline, Has Died At 107
Destouches defended the French writer, and their anti-Semitic and intensely pro-Nazi stance, for decades. “‘She followed him into the depths of hell with a love, an admiration and an affection that was absolute,’ Frédéric Vitoux, one of Céline’s biographers, wrote of Ms. Destouches.” – Washington Post
2016-10-04 01:00:00
CD1 : At the Opera Lully, Campra, Marais, Destouches and Bocan Les Talens lyriques cond. Christophe Rousset CD2 : At the Court Lully, Marais, Philidor, Campra, Colasse, Gervais, La Barre, Purcell, Desmarest, Lalande, Pécour La Simphonie du Marais cond. Hugo Reyne Erato, 1995. Flac + Cue + Scans EmbedUpload • Mega
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