Chabrier: L'Étoile

Dutch National Opera;
Residentie Orkest The Hague;
Fournillier, Patrick

NBD 0091 V

Libretto by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo • Hélène Guilmette, Soprano • Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Mezzo-soprano • Christophe Mortagne, Tenor • Jérôme Varnier, Bass • Chorus of Dutch National Opera • Residentie Orkest The Hague • Patrick Fournillier, Conductor • Laurent Pelly, Stage Director • L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary Henri Duparc praised him specifically for creating a French comic genre, both funny and musical – described as something of a French Die Meistersinger. The fanciful story is set in an imaginary kingdom and all, naturally, ends well. However, despite the slight plot line L’Étoile is something of a pivotal work, a unique example of French 19th-century light opera, orchestrated with great sophistication and flooded with gossamer wit.

Blu-ray

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

04-03-2019

0730099009164