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Monsigny: Le Déserteur (Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette)
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729-1787)Le Déserteur, Drama in Three Acts (1769)Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette(Period Instruments) Naxos 8.660263-64 (2010) 2-Disc set[Flac & Scans]
2022-04-21 12:45:13
Rivales: Veronique Gens and Sandrine Piau celebrate two eminent personalities of 18th century French opera
Rivales - Monsigny, Edelmann, JC Bach, Gluck, Loiseau de Persuis, Gretry, Cherubini, Sacchini, Dalayrac; Veronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin; Alpha ClassicsReviewed 20 April 2022, (★★★★½)The idea of the rivalry between two late 18th century French sopranos is a lovely excuse for this thrilling examination of French opera superbly sung by two modern day contemporaries This disc celebrates two eminent personalities of French opera from the late 18th century. Born within a year of each other, each forged an important career, Madame Dugazon (1755-1821) as a member of the Comedie Italienne, and Madame Saint-Huberty (1756-1812) as a member of the Academy Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera). And whilst it is not known that they ever appeared on stage together, that they were probably rivals is likely. So, on Rivales, on Alpha Classics, we hear arias and duets by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Jean-Frederic Edelmann, Johann Christian Bach, Christoph Willibald […]
2016-08-27 01:00:00
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729-1817) Le Roi et le fermier (Opera comique in three acts-1762) Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette (Period Instruments) Naxos 8.660322 (2013) [Flac & Scans]
2014-01-26 18:18:58
Disguise and dolls
[…] de Versailles where The French Così arrives next month. In addition to this impressive evolution, many of its operatic revivals have been recorded on the Naxos label. One of Brown’s preoccupations has been early operas-comiques from the mid- to late-18th century, a rarely performed genre that is still mostly ignored, even in France. Although he hasn’t yet gotten around to works by Egidio Duni, the Naxos discography already includes André Grétry’s Le Magnifique , Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny’s Le Déserteur and Le Roi et le fermier (performed at the first Versailles visit in 2012),as well as Philidor’s Sancho Pança . Other than Philidor’s trenchant adaptation of Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones, I have to admit that I haven’t cottoned to most of the operas-comiques I have listened to in the past. They have seemed musically shallow and relentlessly bouncy, although a few of Grétry’s works have struck me favorably, particularly […]
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