With Mark Elder installed as artistic director, Opera Rara continues to burrow away in the byways of the 19th-century French and Italian repertoires, and its latest offering is a slight but charming ...
In 1923 Diaghilev invited Poulenc to add music to some of the spoken passages of La colombe and it is his version that is used here, though one would be hard-pressed to identify where Gounod stops and ...
"Paris is the city of desire," exclaims the naive juvenile tenor in Puccini's La rondine as he arrives in the metropolis, where he hopes to be corrupted. Opera more or less instantly fulfils the ...
LYRIQUE Le label anglais qui présente en disque La Colombe de Gounod s’appelle Opera Rara. Tout un programme… Alors que d’autres opus du Français se sont perchés au sommet du répertoire (Faust, Romeo ...