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Offenbach: Fantasio

Sarah Connolly, Brenda Rae & Russell Braun

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Offenbach: Fantasio
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Offenbach: Fantasio

Sarah Connolly, Brenda Rae & Russell Braun

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

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Opera Rara's award-winning recording of Fantasio is back! Considered one of Offenbach's most beautiful and refined works, Fantasio offers a heady cocktail of charm, gentle melancholy, bad-tempered jokes and poetry, and marks the crucial step in Offenbach's path towards The Tales of Hoffmann. This recording marks the world premiere studio recording of the complete opera using the new critical edition by Jean-Christophe Keck. The complete libretto in original French and English, as well as the synopsis in French, Italian and German, is downloadable from the Opera Rara website at www.opera-rara.com/fantasio This recording won the 2015 International Opera Awards for best CD (Complete Opera).

  • Release date: 27th Apr 2018
  • Label: Opera Rara
  • Catalogue number: ORC351
  • Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Offenbach: Fantasio, Act 1
Work length51:04
This work is only available as an album download.
Overture
Track length7:10
"Vive le roi!" (Il Cancelliere del Castello, Sparck, Hartmann, Facio)
Track length4:06
Fanfare
Track length0:06
"Mes amis, je vous ai annonce les..."
Track length1:02
"Vive le roi! Vive le roi!" (Il Cancelliere del Castello)
Track length1:00
"Ou diable est donc Fantasio?" (Marinoni, Sparck, Facio, Hartmann)
Track length1:07
"Voyez dans la nuit brune" (Fantasio)
Track length3:22
"Eh bien, que ferons-nous de" (Facio, Hartmann, Fantasio, Sparck, Flamel)
Track length1:30
"Voilà toute la ville en fête" (La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length5:29
"Quel murmure charmant soudain" (Fantasio, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length4:38
"Quel astre contemples-tu là?" (Sparck, Fantasio)
Track length0:04
"Vois comme ce clair de lune est" (Fantasio, Sparck)
Track length1:14
"Ô Saint-Jean! Ta joyeuse face" (Fantasio, Sparck, Il Cancelliere del Castello)
Track length3:52
"Que je prenne la place de Saint-Jean" (Fantasio, Sparck, Le prince de Mantoue, Marinoni)
Track length1:51
"Je médite un projet d'importance" (Le prince de Mantoue, Marinoni)
Track length3:16
"Une seule chose me paraît s'opposer" (Marinoni, Le prince de Mantoue)
Track length0:45
"Tout bruit cesse" (Il Cancelliere del Castello, Hartmann, Fantasio, Sparck, Facio, Milio)
Track length10:32
This track is only available as an album download.
Offenbach: Fantasio, Act 2
Work length45:13
This work is only available as an album download.
Entr'acte
Track length2:55
"Quand l'ombre des arbres" (Il Cancelliere del Castello, Flamel, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length9:01
"Je me sens, malgré tout" (La princesse Elsbeth, Flamel)
Track length0:50
"Oui, c'est bien lui, chère princesse!" (Flamel, Marinoni, La princesse Elsbeth, Le Roi de Baviere, Le prince de Mantoue)
Track length2:51
"Permettez-moi de baiser cette main" (Marinoni, La princesse Elsbeth, Le Roi de Baviere, Le prince de Mantoue)
Track length2:08
"Je ne serai donc jamais, non jamais" (Le prince de Mantoue)
Track length3:38
"Aurait-elle un coeur dur et faux?" (Le prince de Mantoue)
Track length0:51
"Quel métier délicieux quel celui" (Fantasio)
Track length1:02
"C'est le nouveau bouffon de roi" (Fantasio, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length2:49
"Tu me fais l'effet de regarder" (Fantasio, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length1:12
"Je n'ai donc rien de plus" (La princesse Elsbeth, Fantasio)
Track length5:00
"Je vous laisse, princesse" (Fantasio, Flamel, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length0:25
"C'est aujourd'hui fête à la cour" (Il Cancelliere del Castello, Flamel, Facio, Milio, Fantasio, La princesse Elsbeth, Le Roi de Baviere, Le prince de Mantoue, Marinoni, Sparck)
Track length12:31
This track is only available as an album download.
Offenbach: Fantasio, Act 3
Work length35:43
Entr'acte I
Track length2:46
"Par Jupiter! Je l'avais bien prédit!" (Fantasio, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length1:03
"Psyché pauvre imprudente" (La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length3:40
"Est-ce un rêve" (Fantasio, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length0:53
"Il n'est qu'un refrain à chante" (Fantasio, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length9:09
"Princesse, on vous cherche" (Flamel, La princesse Elsbeth)
Track length0:57
Entr'acte II
Track length0:56
"Calmez-vous, prince! Calmez-vous" (Marinoni, Le prince de Mantoue)
Track length0:52
"Reprenez cet habit mon prince" (Marinoni)
Track length2:29
"Oui, oui, je connais ton dévouement!" (Le prince de Mantoue)
Track length0:06
"Ils sont entrés dans le palais" (Facio, Il Cancelliere del Castello, Sparck)
Track length3:47
"Eh! Bien! Le voilà, Fantasio!" (Fantasio, Facio)
Track length1:33
"Sous ta bannière on se rallie" (Facio, Hartmann, Sparck, Le prince de Mantoue, Fantasio, La princesse Elsbeth, Le Roi de Baviere, Marinoni, Flamel, Il Cancelliere del Castello)
Track length7:32
Excerpt,Offenbach: Fantasio
Work length6:41
"Ballade à la lune" (Fantasio)
Track length4:39
"Pleure, le ciel te voit" (Fantasio)
Track length2:02

Awards and reviews

  • Opera
    December 2014
    Recording of the Month
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