Offenbach: Fables de la Fontaine / Deshayes, Heck, Rouen Haute-Normandie Opera Orchestra

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Release Date
October 11, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      OFFENBACH, JACQUES
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestre De L'Opera De Rouen
    • PERFORMER
      Deshayes, Haeck
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 11, 2019
    • UPC
      3760014195532
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA553
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    2. La valse du divorce

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    3. No. 1. Le berger et la mer

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    4. No. 2. Le corbeau et le renard

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    5. No. 3. La cigale et la fourmi

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    6. No. 4. La laitière et le pot au lait

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    7. No. 5. Le rat de ville et le rat des champs

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    8. No. 6. Le savetier et le financier

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    9. Ouverture

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    10. C'est l'Espagne

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    11. Les deux aveugles: Overture

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    12. Madame Favart: Overture

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    13. M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le … : Overture

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck

    14. Schuler Polka

      Composer: Jacques Offenbach

      Ensemble: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Haeck


A grasshopper, a milkmaid’s pail, a shepherd, a fox, a country mouse, a cobbler... These are just some of the diverse and varied characters from the famous Fables that Jacques Offenbach decided to set to music in 1842, some 150 years after they were written by Jean de La Fontaine. With their vivid texts featuring talking animals and stock characters, the Fables offered an allegorical and didactic way of alluding to the court and the mores of the time. Offenbach chose six of the 240 Fables of la Fontaine to set as mélodies. Here the conductor Jean-Pierre Haeck presents them in his own orchestration performed by the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen and the mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes, who excels in this repertory. To complete the programme, the singer performs numbers from Offenbach’s opéra-bouffe Boule-de-neige and the orchestra plays movements from the ballet Le Papillon, offering listeners a recording as refined as it is witty.