Messager: Fortunio

Orchestre des Champs-Elysées;
Langrée, Louis

NBD 0119 V

Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soprano

Cyrille Dubois, Tenor

Franck Leguérinel, Baritone

Jean-Sébastien Bou, Baritone

Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Baritone

Choeur Les Éléments

Orchestre des Champs-Élysées

Denis Podalydès, Stage Director

André Messager’s Fortunio premiered in 1907 at the Opéra Comique, where it received acclaim that was to last decades. One of the last composers to devote his entire career to opera and operetta, Messager exemplified in his music a feeling for dramatic pacing and the spirit of Belle Époque, qualities that permeate Fortunio, a comédie lyrique in which the dialogue in the libretto is given a continuous musical setting. Taking Alfred de Musset’s play Le Chandelier as his source, Messager explores upper-class society at the turn of the 19th century with subtlety of characterisation and a thoroughly French orchestral transparency.

Blu-ray

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

30-09-2020

0730099011969