Smyth - Fete Galante; Lehmann - The Happy Prince
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Label: Retrospect Opera
Cat No: RO007
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 15th November 2019
Contents
Artists
Charmian Bedford (soprano)Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano)
Felix Kemp (baritone)
Simon Wallfisch (baritone)
Mark Milhofer (tenor)
Alessandro Fisher (tenor)
Felicity Lott (reciter)
Valerie Langfield (piano)
Lontano Ensemble
Conductor
Odaline de la MartinezWorks
The Happy PrinceFete galante
Artists
Charmian Bedford (soprano)Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano)
Felix Kemp (baritone)
Simon Wallfisch (baritone)
Mark Milhofer (tenor)
Alessandro Fisher (tenor)
Felicity Lott (reciter)
Valerie Langfield (piano)
Lontano Ensemble
Conductor
Odaline de la MartinezAbout
Smyth described her beautiful one-act opera of 1923, Fête Galante, as ‘A Dance-Dream’. It is a romantic evocation of the traditional commedia dell’arte – the world of Harlequin, Pierrot and Columbine. In an idyllic Watteau-esque garden, we find love, jealousy, deception and danger as life mysteriously mimics art. Will Pierrot identify the Queen’s lover, or must he pay the ultimate price for silence?
Lehmann’s dramatic ‘recitation’, or melodrama, of 1908, The Happy Prince, is a musical retelling of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated story of self-sacrifice and redemption. Composed for reciter and pianist, this recording of Lehmann’s charming musical melodrama is an excellent insight into the rarely explored world of a form once extremely popular.
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