Gretry: Le Magnifique
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Elizabeth Calleo (soprano), Marguerite Krull (soprano), Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Karim Sulayman (tenor), Douglas Williams (bass-baritone) & Randall Scarlata (baritone)
Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown
As you would expect from this composer, the music is unfailingly well made and elegant, but at times it goes much further than that...The performance is admirably stylish, with singers and orchestra...
Gretry: Le Magnifique
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Elizabeth Calleo (soprano), Marguerite Krull (soprano), Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Karim Sulayman (tenor), Douglas Williams (bass-baritone) & Randall Scarlata (baritone)
Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown
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As you would expect from this composer, the music is unfailingly well made and elegant, but at times it goes much further than that...The performance is admirably stylish, with singers and orchestra...
About
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry was the greatest French composer of opéra-comique in the eighteenth century. His librettist for Le Magnifique, Jean-Michel Sedaine, took a tale by La Fontaine and fashioned it into a compelling libretto. Grétry responded with an outstanding score, including one of the first programmatic overtures in musical history. His expressive love music, and extended preludes and postludes, add to the theatrical variety of this important and varied opera.
Contents and tracklist
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
- Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull, Jeffrey Thompson, Karim Sulayman, Douglas Williams, Randall Scarlata
- Opera Lafayette Orchestra
- Ryan Brown
Awards and reviews
April 2013
As you would expect from this composer, the music is unfailingly well made and elegant, but at times it goes much further than that...The performance is admirably stylish, with singers and orchestra all fully attuned to the French style of this period.
