Jean-Philippe Lafont News
French opera singer
- bass-baritone
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- opera singer, musician, performing artist
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2019-07-01 18:19:00
Berlioz : Symphonie fantastique and Lélio - Philippe Jordan, Cyrille Dubois
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique and Lélio ou Le retour à la vie, this time with Philippe Jordan conducting the Wiener Symphonker wirh Cyrille Dubois, Florian Sempey and Jean-Philippe Lafont (narrator) with the Wiener Singverein from the Wiener Symphoniker's own recording label. Symphonie fantastique is ubiquitous, with numerous performances and recordings every year. But what is news is that this programme is an "extended" version, so to speak, since the symphony (op 14) and the monologue lyrique (op 14b) were designed on symmetrical principles, with numerous interconnections, forming a kind of mega symphony whose architecture is revealed by hearing the two parts together. There have been earlier recordings - Jean Martinon in 1973 being my particular favourite, but in performance, the pairing is not easy to achieve because the two parts require very different forces. Colin Davis, for example, recorded Lélio minus the all-important part of Lélio the composer, though his narration is […]
2017-05-20 01:00:00
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) La Damnation de Faust Anne Sofie Von Otter, Michael Myers, Jean-Philippe Lafont, René Schirrer Edinburgh Festival Chorus Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon John Eliot Gardiner Philips 426 199-2 (1989). Recorded 1987, live [flac, cue, log, scans]
2017-05-01 04:11:00
Le Temple de la Gloire, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, PBO Chorus, New York Baroque Dance Company and Many Individuals
[…] joy to all he conducts. I loved the dancing and the dancers from the NY Baroque Dance Company, and there was a lot more dancing than you'd find in more recent, say, 19th c., operas. The singing was mostly excellent, with some variation of voice size and flexibility. I especially liked soprano Chantal Santon-Jeffery, who has big, glamorous voice, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, who has a gorgeous baritone voice and would make a fine Chorebe, and Camille Ortiz-Lafont, whose dark and beautiful mezzo lent considerable character to Act 2. As for the plot...well, there isn't exactly a plot. It's about how to be a good ruler and be admitted to the Temple of Glory. During the opera, three different rulers try to gain entrance, and two fail. This was aimed directly at Louis XV, the French king of the time. It didn't matter much, and of course there was the fabulous […]
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