Release Date: 13 January 2023
Label: Naxos - Nxp / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 730099051477
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: AUBER
Description
The two leading operatic composers of their time were Rossini and Auber, one now feted, the other largely overlooked. In 1831 Auber and his long-standing librettist Eugene Scribe produced Le Philtre, which took the concept of petit opera to the extreme, even outdoing Rossini?s Le Comte Ory in depicting a rural setting peopled not with Arcadian shepherds but with ordinary country folk. Auber?s Franco-Italian style can be heard in the work?s ensembles, while elsewhere the opera shimmers with rich arias, buffo elements and delightful cavatinas. Le Philtre was an unalloyed success receiving 243 performances and inspired Donizetti?s L?elisir d?amore.
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Avalon String Quartet
Alexandre Dossin
Abner Landim; Goias Philharmonic Orchestra; Neil Thomson
