Le Nouvel Opera, Les Boreades & Francis Colpron
Release Date: 19 October 2018
Label: Atma Classique
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 722056277020
Description
Le Nouvel Opera and Les Boreades de Montreal have assembled an exceptional group of artists for the first-ever recording of Nicandro e Fileno, a pastoral opera by Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) first performed in 1681 before Louis XIV at the palace of Fontainebleau.
Paolo Lorenzani studied composition with Orazio Benevoli. He became in 1675 Maestro di Cappella at the cathedral of Messina, in Sicily. Nicandro e Fileno was the first Italian-language opera to be staged in France since Francesco Cavalli's Ercole amante, which was written to celebrate the marriage of the king in 1660. The manuscript of Nicandro e Fileno is conserved in the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris. Canadian musicologist Albert La France prepared the critical edition of Nicandro e Fileno for the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Thanks to the initiative of Suzie LeBlanc and Francis Colpron, this opera was restored to life for this recording and for the 2017 performance in Montreal, with stage direction by Marie-Nathalie Lacoursiere.
Le Nouvel Opera is dedicated to the revival of the first operas of the Baroque period. Integrating music, dance and theatre in its productions, the company has been praised for its originality and historical expertise in Canada and abroad. Its first CD, La Conversione di Clodoveo by Antonio Caldara, was released on the ATMA Classique label. The ensemble Les Boreades was founded in 1991 by Francis Colpron and specialises in performing Baroque repertoire with an approach that is authentic both in terms of period performance practice and the use of period instruments.
Artists:
Le Nouvel Opera
Les Boreades de Montreal
Suzie LeBlanc - Soprano
Pascale Beaudin - Soprano
Philippe Gagne - Tenor
Nils Brown - Tenor
Dominic Cote - Baritone
Jean-Marc Salzmann - Baritone
Les Boreades de Montreal
Le Nouvel Opera
Tracklisting
Quatuor Molinari
Luc Beausejour
Ariane Brisson; Philip Chiu
Denis Plante; Stephane Tetreault
Ensemble ArtChoral; Matthias Maute
Ensemble ArtChoral; Matthias Maute
Mathieu Lussier; Christophe Gauthier; Amanda Keesmaat
Flute Alors
Florent Baffi; Le Balcon; Rene Ramos Premier; Sean Clayton; Adele Carlier; Juliette Allen; Helene F
Welsh National Opera Company; Welsh National Opera Chorus; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; B
Raffaella Milanesi; Giacomo Nanni; Shaked Bar; Francesca Ascioti; Silvia Frigato; Furio Zanasi; Rob
Nahuel Di Pierro; Enea Scala; Giuliana Gianfaldoni; Maria Elena Pepi; Coro dell'Accademia Teatro al
Konu Kim; Zuzana Markova; Cecilia Molinari; Tuty Hernandez; Lilla Takacs; Valerio Morelli; Orchestr
Danielle Reutter-Harrah; Teresa Wakim; Mireille Lebel; James Reese; Jason McStoots; Aaron Sheehan;
Anna Netrebko; Yusif Eyvazov; Carlo Bosi; Maria Teresa Leva; Ferruccio Furlanetto; Chorus of the Ar
Anna Goryachova; Melissa Petit; Antonino Siragusa; Andreas Wolf; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Wiener
