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Rousseau Le Devin du Village staged at Versailles
[…] and vocally balanced. Dance is pulse, and pulse the basis of music. Separate the two and lose the plot. It would be impossible and inadvisable to recreate the full baroque experience, but this production is a glimpse into what might have been. For the rest, we use our imaginations, based on what we've learned. Les Nouveaux Caractères are conducted by Sébastien d'Hérin. The dancers are Le Compagnie d'Eloquents, choreograped by Hubert Hazebrocq. Singers are Caroline Mutel (Colette), Cyrille Dubois (Colin), and Frédéric Caton (Le Devin). Historic staging by Jean-Paul Gousset. It would be impossible to recreate the full baroque experience, but in this staging we get a glimpse into what might have been, from which we can learn the foundations of French style. Please read Reconsidering Rousseau's Le devin du Village : an opera of surprising and valuable paradox by Edward Green (Ars lyrica, 2007) for a more detailed analysis […]
2014-04-03 20:03:35
Platée du jour
[…] ambitious world premiere recording. Granted, Surprises may be one of Rameau’s weakest scores, but d’Hèrin’s forces still fail to do justice to it. Although Anders Dahlin excels in three tenor roles and soprano Amel Brahim-Djelloul as Adonis dominates the first entrèe “L’Enlèvement d’Adonis,” the remainder of the cast comes up short. Karine Deshayes reveals a lovely voice, but she doesn’t sound at home in this repertoire and the other two sopranos, Virginie Pochon and Caroline Mutel, are downright wretched, so painful that I would literally wince when either began to sing. Since they sing four roles, they prove a real blight on this ambitious but grandly flawed project; that this recording has received 5- and 4-star reviews on Amazon is baffling. For those intrigued by the Les Arts Florissants Platée, culturebox will stream the March 27 performance of the Robert Carsen production from the Opéra-Comique beginning at 2:00 EDT on […]
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