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Adam: Le Postillon de Lonjumeau

Sung in German

Robert Swensen (Chapelou), Pamela Coburn (Madeleine), Peter Lika (Bijou), Florian Prey (Marquis de Corcy), Jürgen Linn (Bourdon)

Rundfunkorchester des SWF Kaiserslautern, Klaus Arp

Adam: Le Postillon de Lonjumeau
Adolphe Adam's attractive opéra-comique tells the story of a coachman who becomes an opera star. Here it's tenor Robert Swensen who dashes off the top Ds in an appealing account whose only...

Adam: Le Postillon de Lonjumeau

Sung in German

Robert Swensen (Chapelou), Pamela Coburn (Madeleine), Peter Lika (Bijou), Florian Prey (Marquis de Corcy), Jürgen Linn (Bourdon)

Rundfunkorchester des SWF Kaiserslautern, Klaus Arp

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Adolphe Adam's attractive opéra-comique tells the story of a coachman who becomes an opera star. Here it's tenor Robert Swensen who dashes off the top Ds in an appealing account whose only...

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Contents and tracklist

Introduction. Welches Gluck, welche Freude (Chorus, Chapelou, Madeleine)
Track length10:00
Duet. Ja, ja, auch ich (Madeleine, Chapelou)
Track length8:39
Ensemble and Postillonlied: Jetzt, junges Paar (Chorus, Chapelou, Marquis)
Track length7:38
Trio and Finale. In meine Plane wirst du dich fugen (Marquis, Chapelou, Bijou, Madeleine, Chorus)
Track length12:34
Prelude
Track length1:41
Aria. Frau von Latour heisst die Dame? (Saint-Phar)
Track length3:57
Aria. Im Chor bin ich der erste Sanger (Alcindor)
Track length2:50
Zwichenspiel
Track length2:33
Aria. Chapelou kommt hierher (Frau von Latour)
Track length6:31
Nein, jetzt ist Schluss! (Chorus, Saint-Phar, Marquis, Alcindor)
Track length11:32
Duet. Welch ein Zufall, Sie hier zu sehen (Saint-Phar, Frau von Latour)
Track length8:39
Dazu mussen wir gratulieren (Chorus, Saint-Phar, Marquis, Frau von Latour)
Track length4:47
Geniesset nun die Ehefreuden (Chorus)
Track length1:55
Trio. Gehenkt, gehenkt, gehenkt! (Alcindor, Bourdon, Saint-Phar)
Track length3:34
Duet and Finale. Das ist nicht wahr (Frau von Latour, Saint-Phar, Alcindor, Bourdon, Marquis, Chorus)
Track length9:51

Awards and reviews

December 2005

Adolphe Adam's attractive opéra-comique tells the story of a coachman who becomes an opera star. Here it's tenor Robert Swensen who dashes off the top Ds in an appealing account whose only demerit is that it's sung in German.

Opera Today February 2007

Robert Swensen has it all — good high notes, vocal heft, a sense of style...In this kind of music radio orchestras, due to their versatility and their outings in the lighter repertoire are often to be preferred over their all too serious and better known symphonic competitors.
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