Special offer. Cherubini: Lodoïska
Nathalie Manfrino (Lodoïska), Hjördis Thébault (Lysinska), Sébastien Guèze (Florerski), Philippe Do (Titzikan), Armando Noguera (Varbel), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (Dourlinski) & Alain Buet (Altama)
Choeur Les Eléments & Le Cercle de L’Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer
reliable if not striking singers, though they are not compelling in the numerous spoken passages; and it is played on period instruments, with a refreshing rawness.
Special offer. Cherubini: Lodoïska
Nathalie Manfrino (Lodoïska), Hjördis Thébault (Lysinska), Sébastien Guèze (Florerski), Philippe Do (Titzikan), Armando Noguera (Varbel), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (Dourlinski) & Alain Buet (Altama)
Choeur Les Eléments & Le Cercle de L’Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer
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reliable if not striking singers, though they are not compelling in the numerous spoken passages; and it is played on period instruments, with a refreshing rawness.
About
'Lodoïska' was first performed at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris on 18 July 1791. The opera was received enthusiastically and ran for 200 performances. It was so popular that it was revived again at the Feydeau in 1819 and was performed frequently in the Germanic countries in the early 19th century, including a production in Vienna in 1805, while Cherubini was there.
This recording on original instruments, under Jeremie Rhorer, points to the debt, musically and politically, Beethoven owed to Cherubini in his later 'rescue' opera 'Fidelio'. Rhorer is conducting 'Le Nozze di Figaro' at Glyndebourne thus summer.
Contents and tracklist
- Hjordis Thebault (soprano), Alain Buet (bass-baritone), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (baritone), Philippe Do (tenor), Sebastien Gueze (tenor), Nathalie Manfrino (soprano), Armando Noguera (baritone), Pierre Virly (baritone), Antonio Guirao-Valverde (bass-baritone), Cyrille Gautreau (bass-baritone)
- Elements Chamber Choir, Les, Cercle de l'Harmonie, Le
- Jérémie Rhorer
- Recorded: 13, 15, 16 October 2010
- Recording Venue: Teatro la Fenice, Venice, Italy / L'Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
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Awards and reviews
September 2013
reliable if not striking singers, though they are not compelling in the numerous spoken passages; and it is played on period instruments, with a refreshing rawness.
September 2013
Cherubini's score is full of good things...The cast, made up almost entirely of native French speakers, is pretty good...Sebastien Gueze has the right kind of lightness, just managing to avoid crooning...Nathalie Manfrino is splendidly passionate in Lodaiska's second air
September 2013
The opera begins well with a spirited Overture and is full of colour from Cherubini’s instrumentation and liveliness from Jeremie Rhoere’s chorus and Orchestra, constitutes which play an important throughout the 110 minutes of these concert performances...One is left to wonder why such a colourful opera has been left to languish.
August 2013
The music is always interesting and imaginative… makes considerable impact and anyone with an interest in opera of this period should hear this set. The presentation is worthy of the project with admirable essays on Cherubini and this opera as well as the full text and translation
July 2013
Well worth hearing, and Jeremie Rhorer’s decisive conducting of his period-instrument forces draws out the impact of Cherubini’s numerous striking harmonic and orchestral gestures
9th May 2013
The great performances come from Philippe Do, gallant as Titzikan, and Armando Noguera, handsome-sounding and wonderfully witty as Varbel.
