Château de Versailles Spectacles
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Adèle Charvet (Carmen), Julien Behr (Don José), Florie Valiquette (Micaëla), Alexandre Duhamel (Escamillo), Gwendoline Blondeel (Frasquita), Ambroisine Bré (Mercédès), Matthieu Walendzik (Le Dancaïre), Attila Varga-Toth (Le Remendado), Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Hervé Niquet
it's good to hear this score played on 'original instruments'. And if Hervé Niquet's tempi are sometimes a little wayward after an overture that never really stops for breath, there's some... —
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Special offer. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Lucile Richardot (contralto)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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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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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Michael Spyres, Sophia Burgos, Maurizio Muraro, Tareq Nazmi, Adèle Charvet
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The orchestra plays superbly throughout, once again underscoring the advantage of employing period instruments to reveal Berlioz’s glittering, brilliant orchestration in all its full glory…[Spyres... —
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Special offer. Fauré: Requiem
Pierre-Olivier Schmitt, Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Isaure Brunner, Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Victor Jacob
Presented in the intimately scored 1893 'church' version, this is a well-crafted performance of the Requiem. The Introitus veers close to the wallowing side of portentous, but the rest flows... —
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Special offer. Gloire Immortelle !
Grandes oeuvres patriotiques
Orchestre Symphonique de la Garde républicaine, Chœur de l'Armée Française, Chœur Rameau, Sebastien Gueze, Marie-Laure Garnier, Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Hervé Niquet
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Special offer. Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Mathias Vidal (Faust), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Thibault de Damas d’Anlezy (Brander)
Les Siècles, Chœur Marguerite Louise, François-Xavier Roth
This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack of drama, an almost Karajan-like tidying-up of corners…The... —
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Special offer. Plácido Domingo. The Versailles Gala
Placido Domingo (baritone), Jennifer Rowley (soprano), Orchestre de l’Opera Royal, Laurent Campellone
A baritone now, the voice is not what it was; yet what the voice has lost in range is amply made up for by an artistry that has been honed for six decades. Even in his recital white tie and... —
