Celebrating Offenbach

Robinson Crusoe - Vert-Vert - Entre Nous

John Brecknock (Robinson Crusoe), Yvonne Kenny (Edwige), Toby Spence (Vert-Vert), Thora Einarsdottir (Mimi), Jennifer Larmore (La Corilla)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Alun Francis, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry

Release Date: 17th Feb 2023
Catalogue No: ORB3
Label: Opera Rara

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Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe

John Brecknock (Robinson Crusoe), Yvonne Kenny (Edwige), Roderick Kennedy (Sir William Crusoe), Enid Hartle (Lady Deborah Crusoe), Marilyn Hill Smith (Suzanne), Alexander Oliver (Toby), Sandra Browne (Man Friday), Alan Opie (Jim Cocks), Wyndham Parfitt (Will Atkins)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Alun Francis

Offenbach: Vert-Vert

Toby Spence (Vert-Vert/Valentin), Thora Einarsdottir (Mimi), Mark Le Brocq (Binet), Jennifer Larmore (La Corilla), Anne-Marie Owens (Mademoiselle Paturelle), Mark Stone (Le Comte d’Arlange), Loïc Félix (Chevalier de Bergerac), Franck Leguérinel (Baladon), Sébastien Droy (Bellecour), Lucy Crowe (Bathilde), Ann Taylor (Emma), Franck Lopez (Friquet/Maniquet)
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry

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Robinson Crusoe Loosely adapted from the novel by Daniel Defoe Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoe (1867) was written during one of the composer’s most prolific period. In Don White’s witty translation, Robinson Crusoe is a hopeless romantic who runs away to sea only to be shipwrecked. His fiancée and her two servants set out to find him only to be shipwrecked themselves. With the help of Man Friday, the whole company is rescued from drunken pirates and waltzing cannibals before they return to live happily ever after in Bristol.

Vert-Vert (1869) was the follow-up to Robinson Crusoe at the Opéra-Comique and one of five stage works Offenbach produced in 1869 alone. With a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Charles Nuitter, who wrote many of Offenbach’s greatest successes, this delectable comic opera is sure to delight all Offenbach fans.

Entre Nous traces the extraordinary career of one of the great personalities of the 19th century, the composer, entrepreneur and satirist Jacques Offenbach through a carefully curated selection of rare arias, duets and ensembles taken from more than 20 operas composed between 1855 and 1880.

‘All but dedicated misanthropes will find this set entrancing. Highly recommended’ Gramophone

‘An absolute bliss’ Spectator

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Celebrating Offenbach

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