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Gubisch/Castronovo/Dupuis/Lis/Montpellier Languedoc-Rusillon Opera/AltinogluThe Spanish clearly prefer their CDs packaged in book form. We've got used to having Jordi Savall's recordings on Alia Vox issued as part of glossy, heavily illustrated tomes, and now Ediciones Singulares has decided to bring its discs out in elegantly produced hardbacks the same size as a DVD box, with generous essays providing analysis and historical context alongside a full libretto and translations.The label's specialities are neglected operas and forgotten composers; it's already released works by JC Bach, Kreutzer and Sacchini, as well as a disc devoted to cantatas by Max d'Ollone. Its first 20th-century opera is one of Massenet's lesser-known later works, in a recording taken from concert performances at last year's Massenet Festival in Montpellier.Thérèse was first performed in 1907 in Monte Carlo. The two short acts (the whole score lasts just 70 minutes) are set during the French revolution, in 1792 and 1793 […]
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