Château de Versailles Spectacles
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New. Chevalier de Saint-George - Portrait
Lauranne Oliva, Victor Sicard, Bastien Rimondi, Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Roxana Rastegar, Anna Sypniewski (viola), Hanna Salzenstein (cello), Justin Taylor, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal
This is overdue...Langlois de Swarte appropriately combines duties as spritely violin soloist with conducting the Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal. He brings plenty of vim and vigour to the concertos,... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Don Giovanni
Robert Gleadow (Don Giovanni), Riccardo Novaro (Leporello), Florie Valiquette (Donna Anna), Arianna Vendittelli (Donna Elvira), Enguerrand de Hys (Don Ottavio), Éléonore Pancrazi (Zerlina), Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (Masetto), Nicolas Certenais (Commendatore)
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Gaétan...
In general the cast is made up of fine voices, though with no stars. Robert Gleadow’s fast-thinking Giovanni summons up boundless vocal and physical energy...Musically, the period instrumentalists... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, DVD of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Special offer. Cimarosa: l'Olimpiade
Josh Lovell (Clistene), Rocio Pérez (Aristea), Mathilde Ortscheidt (Licida), Alex Banfield (Aminta), Maite Beaumont (Megacle), Marie Lys (Argene)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Young Spanish coloratura Rocío Pérez (Aristea) is the standout singer in Rousset's excellent cast, with a bell-like core, easy lyricism, searing emotionalism, leaping staccato proficiency and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Les Grandes Eaux de Versailles: Music of the Royal Festivities
Collegium 1704, Galilei Consort, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Nouveaux Caractères, Stradivaria, The King's Consort, Vaclav Luks, Robert King, Benjamin Chénier, Vincent Dumestre, Sébastien d'Hérin, Gaétan Jarry, Daniel Cuiller
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Special offer. Gretry: Richard Coeur de Lion
Reinoud Van Mechelen, Cécile Achille, Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Vocally the most demanding role is that of Richard, whose big aria in Act 2, the most Italianate music in the opera, is sung with splendid assurance by the experienced Reinoud Van Mechelen…The... —
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Hervé Niquet takes things at a lick from the start, the Introitus light and zippy but atmospheric, the Dies Irae sculpted in perfectly pitched elegant rage. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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Special offer. Gluck: Écho et Narcisse
Adriana González (Écho), Cyrille Dubois (Narcisse), Myriam Leblanc (Amour)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Refreshingly devoid of mercurial impulses, Niquet’s well-judged performance should go some way towards rehabilitating the reputation of Gluck’s final opera. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Le Devin du Village
Les Nouveaux Caractères, Sébastien d'Hérin
The production by Jean-Jacques Schaettel, filmed by Olivier Simonnet, is straightforward…The singers are hardly taxed by the music but they sing mellifluously and act with conviction; the 12-strong... —
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Special offer. The Last Castrato. Arias for Velluti
Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Stefan Plewniak
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