Meyerbeer - Le Prophete
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Label: LSO Live
Cat No: LSO0894
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Opera
Expected Release Date: 28th June 2024
Contents
Artists
John OsbornElizabeth DeShong
Mane Galoyan
James Platt
Edwin Crossley-Mercer
Guilhem Worms
Valerio Contaldo
Maxime Melnik
David Sanchez
Hugo Santos
Lyon Opera Chorus
Maitrise des Bouches-du-Rhone
Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Mark ElderWorks
Le PropheteArtists
John OsbornElizabeth DeShong
Mane Galoyan
James Platt
Edwin Crossley-Mercer
Guilhem Worms
Valerio Contaldo
Maxime Melnik
David Sanchez
Hugo Santos
Lyon Opera Chorus
Maitrise des Bouches-du-Rhone
Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Mark ElderAbout
The opera is loosely based on a true story. In the 1500s, a charismatic innkeeper is converted to Anabaptism by itinerant preachers. After becoming a preacher himself, John of Leiden came to Münster and established a tyrannical rule, renaming it Jerusalem and proclaiming himself king, before later being killed.
Add to this a bride who is a fighter, and the most formidable mother figure ever shown on an operatic stage, and Le Prophète is the quintessential grand opera – a spectacular large-scale work that made the Paris Opera the leading stage in Europe, and Meyerbeer a composer admired and envied by the greatest. The first performances at Paris Opera were also notable for being the first time that electrical lighting was used at that theatre, to suggest a sunrise – a process specially created by the French physicist Léon Foucault and photographer Jules Duboscq.
"An indisputable highlight of the festival was July 15's concert performance of 'Le Prophète'. […] The evening was broadcast live on Radio France, but the achievement of Elder and everyone else here deserves wider currency and it would be tragic if a recording was not forthcoming" – Opera Magazine
"This was certainly a night to remember" – OperaWire
Cast:
- Jean de Leyde: John Osborn
- Fidès: Elizabeth DeShong
- Berthe: Mané Galoyan
- Zacharie: James Platt
- Count Oberthal: Edwin Crossley-Mercer
- Mathisen: Guilhem Worms
- Jonas: Valerio Contaldo
- First Anabaptist: Maxime Melnik
- Second Anabaptist: David Sánchez
- Peasant: Hugo Santos
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