Gounod: La nonne sanglante

Started by DK, Friday 15 June 2018, 02:33

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DK

Friday 15 June 2018, 02:33
I discovered this after the fact:
http://classicalradio.bru-zane.com/fr/la-nonne-sanglante-de-charles-gounod/
I do not see on the Opera Comique's website that this will be broadcast anywhere else, so I hope a recording will eventually be available.  (I'm fairly sure one will, as another of the Palazzetto Bru Zane's projects.)
DK

adriano

#1
Friday 15 June 2018, 06:17
This is a (still available) cpo CD, recorded in 2008 and issued in 2010.

DK

#2
Saturday 16 June 2018, 23:57
Sorry, I was unclear in my original post--I meant to refer to the Opera Comique production of this month.  I was told by an acquaintance that there was a video broadcast on 12 June, and this is the link I was sent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRZXPtN128U

Alan Howe

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Sunday 17 June 2018, 08:54
Not sure about the singing on the cpo set. My usual grumble, I'm afraid.

adriano

#4
Sunday 17 June 2018, 16:47
I know, Alan, I am with you! Not to mention the unsatisfactory French pronounciation and unawareness of French stylistics. I have worked as an Italian, French, German and English language coach for many years - during Drese's and Pereira's golden aera of the Zurich Opera, among others as an assistant of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. These were times in which foreign languages were taken much care of. I also teached Italian and French stylistics at the Opera Studio. Such a pity all this has gone by for me; I liked teaching so much!
Incidentally, I was, lately, so disappointed by another French opera CD: it's that Panclassics 2CD set with Debussy's unfinished Edgar Poe operas - which are excellently completed, conducted and quite nicely sung. But the French pronounciation! Oh dear!

Alan Howe

#5
Sunday 17 June 2018, 18:00
Gounod - of all composers - has to be sweetly sung. The cpo set isn't. That's why I won't buy it.

Gerhard Griesel

#6
Sunday 17 June 2018, 20:33
It looks like it may have been uploaded on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/zRZXPtN128U

DK

#7
Monday 18 June 2018, 02:02
Yes, I had posted the link.  The video will also be on culturebox:
https://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/musique/la-nonne-sanglante-de-gounod-a-l-opera-comique-274323

I am not familiar with the cpo recording but there was an excerpt played on the BBC "Composer of the Week" feature on Gounod last week, with a tenor named Yoonki Baek singing Rodolphe.  I watched bits of the Opera Comique production and Michael Spyres is clearly the superior singer in this role.  I will have to make time to watch the entire opera.

Alan Howe

#8
Monday 18 June 2018, 07:12
Spyres is a very fine singer indeed. The performance detailed at DK's original link is the (inadequate) cpo recording. Let's hope there will be one featuring Spyres.

DK

#9
Monday 18 June 2018, 16:57
I actually had posted the Opera Comique performance link in a second post after I received the link from an acquaintance.  This was a Palazzetto Bru Zane-sponsored production, so I hope it will be issued as a recording (a DVD instead of a CD would be nice!).  But if not, the video is up for enjoyment.  Spyres is very fine here.

jdperdrix

#10
Monday 18 June 2018, 17:20
As the video was produced by "François Roussillon et associés" in association with Naxos, I think there will be a DVD some time.
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