8055776010236

Ambroise Thomas: Psyche

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra; Hungarian National Choir; Gyorgy Vashegyi; Helene Guilme

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: BZ1062

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Release Date:  31 October 2025

Label:  Outhere / Bru Zane

Packaging Type:  Hard Back book

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  8055776010236

Genres:  Classical  Opera  

Composer/Series:  Ambroise Thomas

  • Description

    Premiered at the Opera-Comique in Paris on 26 January 1857, Ambroise Thomas's Psyche tells the story of the ill-starred love between Eros and Psyche, who are manipulated by the cynical Mercury and envied by Daphne and Berenice, the heroine's own sisters. The style of the work represents the nec plus ultra of mid-nineteenth-century French opera-comique, notably in the Italianate influence of Rossini, which gives the singers of the two leading roles - one of which, Eros, is a breeches part for mezzo-soprano - a chance to glitter amid torrents of coloratura poured forth in impressive, passionate love duets. The librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carre achieved an inspired blend of comedy and tragedy by contrasting a quartet of cruel and grotesque characters (Psyche's sisters and their suitors) with the noble hero and heroine. Ambroise Thomas's music does not merely foreshadow the future triumphs of Mignon and Hamlet: it is worthy to stand beside them at the pinnacle of his operatic legacy, as his obituarists declared. This recording confirms their judgment.

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