A Tribute to Gilbert Duprez | Delos DE3532

A Tribute to Gilbert Duprez

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Label: Delos

Cat No: DE3532

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 8th September 2017

Contents

Works

Berlioz, Hector

Benvenuto Cellini, op.23 H76a
» La gloire etait ma seule idole
» Sur les monts les plus sauvages

Donizetti, Gaetano

Dom Sebastien, Roi de Portugal
» Seul sur la terre ...Ange celeste (Act 2)
La favorita
» Ange si pur que dans un songe
Les Martyrs
» Oui, j'irai dans leur temple
Lucia di Lammermoor
» Bientot l'herbe des champs croitra

Rossini, Gioachino

Guillaume Tell
» Asile hereditaire

Verdi, Giuseppe

Jerusalem
» Je veux encore entendre ta voix
» O mes amis, mes freres d'armes

Artists

John Osborn (tenor)
Kaunas State Chorus
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Constantine Orbelian

Works

Berlioz, Hector

Benvenuto Cellini, op.23 H76a
» La gloire etait ma seule idole
» Sur les monts les plus sauvages

Donizetti, Gaetano

Dom Sebastien, Roi de Portugal
» Seul sur la terre ...Ange celeste (Act 2)
La favorita
» Ange si pur que dans un songe
Les Martyrs
» Oui, j'irai dans leur temple
Lucia di Lammermoor
» Bientot l'herbe des champs croitra

Rossini, Gioachino

Guillaume Tell
» Asile hereditaire

Verdi, Giuseppe

Jerusalem
» Je veux encore entendre ta voix
» O mes amis, mes freres d'armes

Artists

John Osborn (tenor)
Kaunas State Chorus
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Constantine Orbelian

About

Gilbert Duprez, a prominent Parisian tenor during the first half of the nineteenth century, is mostly unknown to today’s opera fans. But his profound influence upon operatic vocal style and practice has persisted up to the present day. His fellow tenors sang their highest notes using a delicate and fluty-sounding falsetto technique. But Duprez pioneered the novel technique of singing upper-range notes up to high C in a much more heroic-sounding chest voice — a practice soon adopted by tenors worldwide.

One of today’s most thrilling tenors, John Osborn is in constant demand on the world’s most prestigious opera stages. His gorgeous voice is particularly noted for its magnificent top end. Who better, then, to present an album devoted to Duprez’s seminal influence on vocal technique for tenors?

With the incomparable support of maestro Constantine Orbelian and his Kaunas City Symphony, Delos and Osborn proudly offer a beguiling album of selections from both well-known and more obscure French grand operas: bel canto arias that are sure to captivate listeners.

“Osborn sailed through the stratospheric reaches of Arnold’s tenor heights with sweetly lyrical roundness.” – The Financial Times

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