Auber: La Sirène

Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes;
Reiland, David

8.660436

Jeanne Crousaud and Dorothée Lorthiois, Sopranos • Xavier Flabat and Jean-Noël Teyssier, Tenors • Jacques Calatayud, Baritone • Jean-Fernand Setti and Benjamin Mayenobe, Basses • Les Métaboles • Auber earned international adulation in the late 1820s for his revolutionary grand opera La Muette de Portici and by the time he composed La Sirène, the success of which inspired potpourris of its melodies, he occupied a central place in French musical life. The mysterious siren of the title is part of a plot that abounds in fantastic comedy, love, betrayal, farce and festivity in the lineage of Italian popular theatre. The German poet Heinrich Heine wrote that ‘La Sirène was received with resounding bravos … The author and the composer know how to amuse us agreeably, and even to enchant us, or to dazzle us by the luminous facets of their spirit.’

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

01-04-2019

0730099043670