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There's also Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold's "Zampa ou La fiancée de marbre" recorded November 2025 in Munich with the following:


Julien Henric, Tenor
Hélène Carpentier, Soprano
Héloïse Mas, Mezzosoprano
Cyrille Dubois, Tenor
Pierre Derhet, Tenor
François Rougier, Tenor
Lukas Mayr, Baritone
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Erik Nielsen, Conductor

It's out on CPO:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/mathilde-kralik-von-meyrswalden-hymnische-symphonie/hnum/12538160

More info:

1st Première 16th October
2nd Première 19th October

National Theatre Orchestra
National Theatre Opera Ballet

The composer and conductor Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935) is a major figure in the history of the National Theatre Opera. He successfully linked up to the era of Karel Kovařovic, who in 1919 engaged him as a dramaturge and after whose death he assumed the post of the opera company's director. In addition to nurturing the traditional repertoire, Ostrčil paid great attention to contemporary Czech and international music. During his tenure at Prague's National Theatre, he entrusted premieres of his own operas to Brno, a case in point being The Legend of Erin, set to a play by Julius Zeyer (1841–1901), first performed on 16 June 1921 at the Na hradbách (today's Mahen) Theatre. The National Theatre first presented the opera on 14 March 1923. The Legend of Erin was most recently performed, in a shortened concert version, at the Estates Theatre, within the 1982 Prague Spring festival. The new production, to premiere in 2025, will mark the 90th anniversary of Otakar Ostrčil's death. After decades of its absence from Czech stages, music lovers will be afforded the opportunity to see and hear a truly remarkable opera.

The author of the libretto, the writer and playwright Julius Zeyer, drew inspiration from Celtic myths, as recounted in works by the French historians and philologists Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville and Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué, as well as the Scottish poet James Macpherson's The Poems of Ossian. The mythical bard Ossian and his father Fingal (King Finn), as well as King Cormac, feature in Zeyer's play and Ostrčil's opera, depicting a gripping story of forbidden love, betrayal and revenge, set in Ancient Ireland.

The Legend of Erin has been undertaken by the conductor Robert Jindra, Music Director of the National Theatre Opera, and the stage director Jiří Heřman, artists well known to the Prague audience.

A complete recording of the world première from 12 October 2024 in Saarbruecken is now in the downloads section.

Apart from the already recorded Catarina Cornaro and König Ödipus there are other stage works:
1826 - Opera in 3 acts Die Bürgschaft
c1830 - Incidental music Lanassa
1839 - Opera in 3 acts Alidia
1849 - Opera in 4 acts Benvenuto Cellini

The latter is probably not as good as Berlioz's but would be interesting to hear what someone else makes of it.

Take his overture to Le Sultan d'Isphahan, for instance.

It seems they are one and the same "Morgiane, ou, Le sultan d'Ispahan"!

It's coming in Bru Zane's Portrait series. 4 CDs including Djamileh and lots of other works!

See here: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/chauvin-julien-glassberg-ben-reiland-david-roth-francois-xavier-bizet-djamileh-vasco-de-gama-cantates-musique-chorale-me/hnum/12167972

You're right, Mark, it was produced in cooperation with Palazzetto Bru Zane, but no date was mentioned for publication in the French Opera series.

I've no idea what happened, Mark, but I've uploaded again. My computer sometimes changes the keyboard when I use English, so maybe that was to blame.

If you want to be bowled over by a woman composer then try this, even if you don't get past the prelude!

In the download section you'll fine 11 mp3 files and a text file with a cast list, background information and a synopsis.

I've divided the acts according to the division in the vocal score rather than the divisons in the cocert programme where the acts are divided into scenes according to the participating roles. Enjoy!

In the downloads file is a copy of yesterday's broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kulture's recording of Alberto Franchetti's Asrael from Bonn on 16th October 2022.

More Bru Zane productions: Three great operatic rediscoveries mark the season 2024-25: L'Ancêtre by Camille Saint-Saëns (1906) in Monaco; Mazeppa by Clémence de Grandval (1892) in Munich (27. 01. 25); and Psyché by Ambroise Thomas (1857-1878) in Budapest and Vienna. Performed in concert and recorded on CD, these rarities will perhaps have the same fortune as the gems unearthed in previous years, which, after winning over their first audiences, are now returning in staged versions to European theatres.

[Cornelius' Gunlöd - a complete orchestration by Waldemar von Bausznern]

I've uploaded a recording of the concert performance relayed by WDR on 12. October 2024 of "Gunlöd".

Cornelius' Gunlöd - a complete orchestration by Waldemar von Bausznern
I've attributed the music to Waldemar von Baausznern as suggested by the conductor Hermann Bäumer. The libretto was completed by Peter Cornelius but he only left piano sketches for the orchestration; mostly for the first act. Although Waldemar von Bausznern consciously strove to orchestrate in Cornelius' manner it is clear in acts two and three he indicated how Cornelius might have developed had he lived long enough to orchestrate the opera himself.

The Orchestration
The draft text was created from August 1866 until the beginning of October of the same year. By next spring the sketch was finished. Cornelius began the fair copy on April 22, 1867 and completed it on May 1, 1867 and read it to the von Bülows. The second fair copy was for King Ludwig and was presented to him by Cosima Wagner. The dedication of the work should read: ,,Dedicated in word and music to Richard Wagner", whose love motif from ,,Tristan and Isolde" Cornelius had used in his opera, but the text manuscript met with little approval from Wagner. After Cornelius' death in 1874, eight work books were found in the estate of the unfinished opera. Karl Hoffbauer (died 1889) completed the score as early as 1879 (380 p., 22 notation systems per page) and Ed. Lassen re–orchestrated this version. The premieres of this arrangement took place in Weimar in 1891, in Strasbourg in 1892 and in Mannheim in 1893. Afterwards the score was withdrawn by the arrangers. In 1895 the ,,Gunlöd" fragments were published (Gunlöd. Opera in three acts by Peter Cornelius. Piano reduction with text. Based on the original manuscripts of the poet composer, Leipzig and others 1895). As part of the Cornelius Festival in Weimar, Waldemar von Baußnern was given the task of completing the score in 1903. He supplemented, edited and orchestrated the sketch fragment and this was premièred in Cologne in 1906. Baußnern writes: ,,You should understand, first of all, that immersing myself in my task was a shining, fruitful experience, in which my love flowed with all my strength for the thoroughly genuine, many heroes quietly towering master who gave us his 'Song of Praise', as he himself called his Gunlöd with joyful pride, one of the most delicious blossoms of German art."

It was cancelled because funding for the chorus failed to materialise. The local authority is hard up and felt it wasn't justified. The manuscript and parts survived the bombing of Darmsdtadt in 1944 and had been restored for the occasion. The organisers hope for an autumn performance.

Deutschlandfunk Kultur 22.06.2024 @ 19:05

Konzert
Gewandhaus Leipzig
Recording from 15.06.2024

Carl Reinecke

Sommertagsbilder op. 161, Konzertstück für Chor und Orchester

Belsazar op. 73, Oratorium für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Anja Pöche, Soprano
Nora Steuerwald, Alt
Florian Sievers, Tenor
Bernhard Hansky, Bass
GewandhausChor
camerata lipsiensis
Conductor: Gregor Meyer