with her light yet focused soprano Marie Devellereau is ideally cast. The tenor Fabrice Dallis has lyrical plangency too as José. Their love scene has a delicate ecstasy. Jean-Sébastien Bou brings musical intelligence and a fine high baritone to the Count’s lines...Shaping the fine performance is La Monnaie’s current music director Alain Altinoglu, still a newcomer when the recording was made in 2002.