Rossini: Le Comte Ory

Julie Fuchs (Adèle), Philippe Talbot (Le Comte Ory), Gaëlle Arquez (Isolier), Eve-Maud Hubeaux (Ragonde), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Rambaud)

Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Les éléments, Louis Langrée, Denis Podalydès (director), Christian Lacroix (designer)

In this recent Paris staging, it is the second act which delights rather more than the first… The Opéra Comique’s Francophone cast is led by Julie Fuchs’s sweet-toned Countess… Talbot is excellent,... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019 More…

Release Date: 8th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: 747408
Label: C Major

Rossini: Le Comte Ory

Julie Fuchs (Adèle), Philippe Talbot (Le Comte Ory), Gaëlle Arquez (Isolier), Eve-Maud Hubeaux (Ragonde), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Rambaud)
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Les éléments
Louis Langrée, Denis Podalydès (director), Christian Lacroix (designer)

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Rossini’s penultimate opera, premiered in 1828 at the Opéra National de Paris, is a musical comedy about a love triangle set during the Crusades. At the Opéra Comique its plot is transported to the time of the work's creation with France’s military expeditions to Algeria. It is staged by a first-rate creative team: Stage director Denis Podalydès and costume designer Christian Lacroix provide stunning visuals, whilst conductor Louis Langrée leads the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Chœur Les éléments and a stellar cast of soloists in this delightful fool’s game. Mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez shines with her ‘superlative technique’ (Le Monde) and Julie Fuchs’s Adèle elicits ‘more than just admiration, namely enthusiasm in the etymological sense of the word: inspired by the divine’ (Le Monde). ‘A masterpiece!’ (Télérama), ‘Pure pleasure!’ (Les Échos). Le Comte Ory at the Opéra Comique is ‘a true musical and theatrical celebration where everything sparkles!’ (Bachtrack)

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June 2019

In this recent Paris staging, it is the second act which delights rather more than the first… The Opéra Comique’s Francophone cast is led by Julie Fuchs’s sweet-toned Countess… Talbot is excellent, though I can’t understand why he muffles many of Ory’s glistening high Cs.

May 2019

The plus is that the singers are francophone, and consequently consummate in the inflection and meaning of words and accent.

Opera Now May 2019

The singing is excellent and homogenous, with Philippe Talbot in the title role displaying a sweet voix mixte and fabulous comic timing.

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