Massenet: Don Quichotte

Cohen spins a deft line through a score that can be utterly bewitching...Gábor Bretz and Anna Goryachova, Quixote and Dulcinée, both make the most of their big numbers, his Act I serenade and... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 18th Sep 2020
Catalogue No: 754008
Label: C Major

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Massenet: Don Quichotte

Gábor Bretz (Don Quichotte), David Stout (Sancho Panza), Anna Goryachova (Dulcinée), Daniel Cohen
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The “striking interpretation” (Neue Musikzeitung) of Jules Massenet’s operatic rarity Don Quichotte at Bregenz Festival, received an "unanimous jubilation for director Mariame Clément, her outfitter Julia Hansen and the entire stage team: a typical Bregenz Festival orchid flourished!“ (Neue Musikzeitung Online). But this opera is also a musical discovery, not least because of the outstanding cast: “the balsamic sound of well-being of Gábor Bretz, David Stouts mobile Sancho Panza is also wonderfully shaded (Salzburger Nachrichten) and “Anna Goryachova impresses as Dulcinée with vocal clarity and scenic presence”. (Wiener Zeitung) “The Bregenz Festival discovers a dreamlike operatic beauty full of melancholy and farewell” (Salzburger Nachrichten)

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December 2020

Cohen spins a deft line through a score that can be utterly bewitching...Gábor Bretz and Anna Goryachova, Quixote and Dulcinée, both make the most of their big numbers, his Act I serenade and her rejection of his marriage proposal. And Massenet knows how to squeeze the emotions in the last act – it’s real tears you shed for Quixote dying under a giant stage-painted oak tree.

Awards Issue 2020

Musically everything is well sorted and balanced under the baton of Daniel Cohen, who keeps a good pulse while never exaggerating the more choreographed scenes. Filmed with good attention to both the rhythm and geography of the production and well recorded from an audio point of view, this new set can be warmly recommended.

March 2021

Lanky and oaken-voiced, Gábor Bretz’s Don Quichotte scarcely moves a muscle…This is an outstanding performance, spiritually attuned to Massenet’s spare writing…Earthily direct, David Stout is another class act…This knightly drama demands to be seen as well as heard, and Clément’s thought-provoking production hits the quintain square on.

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