Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Lachnith: Les Mysteres d'Isis [2CD]

Opera Barokowa
premiera polska: 2015-10-16
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Editor's Info:
Long before the advent of surtitles in the opera house, success across Europe of new dramatic works depended on their plots being understood by local audiences. Such was the case for the German singspiel that is Mozarts Die Zauberflöte, and when it was introduced to in Paris in 1801 it was adapted and re-titled Les Mystères dIsis: this is the opera which Le Concert Spirituel and the Flemish Radio Choir have recorded for this new release on Glossa (Diego Fasolis conducting the ensembles in place of the then indisposed Hervé Niquet). Little of Mozarts operatic music had established itself at that time in Paris and any production for the Opéra needed to include recitatives, ballets, no théâtre parlé and to be performable by the standing company. Hence, arranger Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith and librettist Étienne Morel de Chédeville set to the task of adapting The Magic Flute. What Morel came up with respects the general outlines of Schickaneders libretto, although most of the characters are renamed. Musically-speaking, this is a pasticcio: whilst much of the original music was retained there are interpolations from others of Mozarts operas. In the booklet, Alexandre Dratwicki and Étienne Jardin take us through the genesis and success of Les Mystères dIsis. That this opera proved to be such a success in Paris is in part due to the Egyptomania then sweeping through the country; what remains today is the glory of Mozarts music as presented to Parisian audiences in Napoleonic France.

muzycy:
Chantal Santon-Jeffery (Pamina), Marie Lenormand (Mona), Renata Pokupić (Myrrène), Jean Teitgen (Zarastro), Tassis Christoyannis (Bochoris), Sébastien Droy (Isménor), Camille Poul (1ère Dame, 1ère Suivante), Jennifer Borghi (2e Dame, 2e Suivante), Élodie Méchain (3e Dame, 3e Suivante), Mathias Vidal (1er Prêtre, 1er Ministre), Marc Labonnette (Le Gardien, 2e Prêtre, 2e Ministre)
Le Concert Spirituel
Diego Fasolis

wydano: 2015
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