Offenbach
10/06/12 12:00PM
Peter Fox Smith explores Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and the Gluck opera of which it is a parody - as well as a couple of historic excerpts from Offenbach's La Perichole.
Playlist
12:00pm
| Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt) |
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| Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra |
| Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras |
| CD/Album: Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
| Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80544 |
| Release Year: 2000 |
12:04pm
| Orphée aux enfers: Overture |
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| Composer: Jacques Offenbach |
| Carl Binder |
| Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra |
| Conductor: Paul Paray |
| CD/Album: Marches and Overtures à la Française |
| Record co./Cat #: Mercury 434332 |
| Release Year: 1993 |
12:13pm
| Orphée aux enfers: "La femme dont le cœur rêve"; "Ah! c'est ainsi!" |
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| Composer: Jacques Offenbach |
| Ensemble: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse |
| Conductor: Michel Plasson |
| Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Michel Sénéchal, tenor |
| CD/Album: Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers |
| Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647 |
| Release Year: 1979 |
12:25pm
| Orphée aux enfers: "Quand j’étais roi de Béotie" |
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| Composer: Jacques Offenbach |
| Ensemble: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse |
| Conductor: Michel Plasson |
| Soloists: Bruce Brewer, tenor |
| CD/Album: Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers |
| Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647 |
| Release Year: 1979 |
12:27pm
| Orphée aux enfers: "J'ai vu le Dieu Bacchus" |
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| Composer: Jacques Offenbach |
| Ensemble: Orchestre et Chœurs du Capitole de Toulouse |
| Conductor: Michel Plasson |
| Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Michèle Pena, soprano ; Michèle Command, soprano ; Charles Burles, tenor |
| CD/Album: Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers |
| Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647 |
| Release Year: 1979 |
12:30pm
| Orphée aux enfers: Finale |
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| Composer: Jacques Offenbach |
| Ensemble: Orchestre et Chœurs du Capitole de Toulouse |
| Conductor: Michel Plasson |
| Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Michel Sénéchal, tenor ; Charles Burles, tenor ; Michel Trempont, baritone ; Jane Rhodes, mezzo-soprano |
| CD/Album: Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers |
| Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647 |
| Release Year: 1979 |
12:34pm
| La Périchole: "O, mon cher Armand" |
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| Composer: Jacques Offenbach |
| Soloists: Germaine Corney, soprano |
| CD/Album: Tales of Offenbach |
| Record co./Cat #: Club "99" 511 |
| Release Year: 1989 |
12:38pm
| La Périchole: "Tu n'es pas beau" |
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| Composer: Jacques Offenbach |
| Soloists: Maggie Teyte, soprano |
| CD/Album: Tales of Offenbach |
| Record co./Cat #: Club "99" 511 |
| Release Year: 1989 |
12:42pm
| Orfeo ed Euridice: Finale |
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| Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck |
| Ensemble: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala |
| Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler |
| Soloists: Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano ; Hilde Güden, soprano ; Magda Gabory, soprano |
| CD/Album: Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice |
| Record co./Cat #: Urania 22.290 |
| Release Year: 2006 |