EAN: 0190295849016

Giacomo Meyerbeer, the French composer with an Italian-German name (adopted) and a Jewish background, was the toast of Paris for much of the middle 19th century, the musical collaborator … Meer...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, the French composer with an Italian-German name (adopted) and a Jewish background, was the toast of Paris for much of the middle 19th century, the musical collaborator of the great {|Eugène Scribe|}, and the single person in whose hands the genre of grand opera most clearly took shape. His music fell out of fashion among the late Romantics, was further depressed by Nazi bans, and has taken a while to come back into style. This fine anthology by German soprano Diana Damrau will help his cause. Plainly a labor of love, the album includes arias in German (one very early) and Italian as well as French, and among the latter from opéras comiques as well as grand opera. Some of the music sounds like {|Rossini|}, some like {|Wagner|} (whom Meyerbeer backed early in his career and was repaid by an anti-Semitic campaign), but most of it has a distinctive voice marked above all by splendid vocal writing. The music often hangs in the soprano's top register, and Damrau evokes how Meyerbeer's audiences must have felt on the knife's edge. There are examples of Meyerbeer's masterful orchestration, such as the flute duo from L'étoile du Nord, and the support from the Orchestra and Chorus of the National Opera of Lyon is top-notch, as is Erato's engineering. One gets the impression here that no expense was spared, rare enough in opera these days, and that the money was well spent. To hear it all tied together, sample O beau pays de la Touraine, with Damrau excelling in both the haunting middle section and the fireworks of the finale. Brava! Music>Music>Classical>Classical Artist>Class Artist, Erato Core >3<

2017, EAN: 0190295849016

Künstler: Diana Damrau, Plg Uk Classics, Audio CD, Auflage: Limited Deluxe Edition, Publiziert: 2017-05-05T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Musik, Hersteller-Nr.: 0190295849016, 0.26 kg, Verkauf… Meer...

Künstler: Diana Damrau, Plg Uk Classics, Audio CD, Auflage: Limited Deluxe Edition, Publiziert: 2017-05-05T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Musik, Hersteller-Nr.: 0190295849016, 0.26 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2435, Oper, Operette & Lied, Klassik, Kategorien, Musik-CDs & Vinyl, Format: Import, Plg Uk Classics, 2017<

2017, EAN: 0190295849016

Künstler: Diana Damrau, Plg Uk Classics, Audio CD, Auflage: Limited Deluxe Edition, Publiziert: 2017-05-05T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Musik, Hersteller-Nr.: 0190295849016, 0.26 kg, Verkauf… Meer...

Künstler: Diana Damrau, Plg Uk Classics, Audio CD, Auflage: Limited Deluxe Edition, Publiziert: 2017-05-05T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Musik, Hersteller-Nr.: 0190295849016, 0.26 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2435, Oper, Operette & Lied, Klassik, Kategorien, Musik-CDs & Vinyl, Format: Import, Plg Uk Classics, 2017<

2017, EAN: 0190295849016

Künstler: Diana Damrau, Plg Uk Classics, Audio CD, Auflage: Limited Deluxe Edition, Publiziert: 2017-05-05T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Musik, Hersteller-Nr.: 0190295849016, 0.26 kg, Verkauf… Meer...

Künstler: Diana Damrau, Plg Uk Classics, Audio CD, Auflage: Limited Deluxe Edition, Publiziert: 2017-05-05T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Musik, Hersteller-Nr.: 0190295849016, 0.26 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2435, Oper, Operette & Lied, Klassik, Kategorien, Musik-CDs & Vinyl, Format: Import, Plg Uk Classics, 2017<

ISBN: 0190295849016

Meyerbeer: grand opera, il CD Musicali di Diana Damrau edito da Warner Music Ent. CD Musicali, Warner Music Ent.