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No, Georges Bizet was not only the composer of Carmen, the French opera most frequently performed around the world. In a career spanning less than twenty years, he produced works in every genre: orchestral music,...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 14, 2025

$39.99

Carmen, the most famous heroine of Romantic opera, has never been so moving and rebellious as in the historical staging of 1875, whose flamboyant Spanishry is brought back to life here with the help of...

Format: DVD + Blu-Ray

Release Date: November 08, 2024

$42.99

Paris discovered Massenet's Griselidis at the Opera-Comique on 20 November 1901. The work is based on a medieval folktale retold by Boccaccio and Perrault, among others, and already set to music several times in the...

Format: CD

Release Date: February 21, 2025

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Offenbach’s La Périchole (1868) will never cease to delight music lovers of all persuasions. Marc Minkowski – long one of the composer’s prophets – was keen to pay tribute to him with this world premiere...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 28, 2019

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‘To have written that, you must be a poet’, Massenet told Reynaldo Hahn when he read through the score of L’Île du rêve. Composed when the young man was not yet eighteen years old, this...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 23, 2020

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Gifted with a strong temperament and a curious nature, Fernand de La Tombelle is a highly appealing and interesting figure among French Romantic composers. He left a substantial �uvre, protean, stylistically eclectic, even atypical, that...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 22, 2019

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'The rehearsals for La Vie parisienne are almost driving me insane', wrote librettist Ludovic Halevy a few days before the work's first performance. The artists of the Palais-Royal company were struggling with some of the...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 04, 2024

$42.99

According to Berlioz, Spontini was – after Gluck – the greatest genius of French music to pave the way for the Romantic era. And it may well be that the little-known Olympie, premiered in 1819...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 22, 2019

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After Polyeucte (1878), Gounod tackled the operatic genre for the last time in 1881 with what is probably his most ambitious work, Le Tribut de Zamora. The action takes place in ninth-century Spain – from...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 22, 2019

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Saint-Saëns’s first opera, Le Timbre d’argent – initially composed in 1864 – need not fear comparison with some of the most celebrated works in the nineteenth-century French repertory. It depicts the nightmare of a man...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 28, 2020

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‘There is more Spain in Offenbach’s brain than in Spain itself’, said a journalist entranced by Maître Péronilla. Understandably so, given the charm and humor of this operetta in which no fewer than twenty-two characters...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 13, 2020

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Massenet's Werther is one of those masterpieces that were rejected or shunned at the time of their creation. Sketched in the 1880s, the score was turned down by the director of the Opera-Comique and had...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 24, 2024

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‘It will be a strange score: people will either not like it at all, or will like it enormously,’ prophesied Camille Saint-Saëns a few days before the premiere of Déjanire. The opera, first performed in...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 26, 2024

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It was around 1825 that Louise Bertin, pupil of Reicha and friend of Berlioz, tackled the subject of Faust with all the energy and confidence of a young woman of twenty. She entirely exceeded the...

Format: CD

Release Date: January 26, 2024

$29.99

Many Romantic composers owe their fame to one of their symphonic poems. Alongside acknowledged French masterpieces in the genre, the fifteen tracks presented here include four previously unrecorded works and several rarities by women composers....

Format: CD

Release Date: October 20, 2023