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So Romantique!
Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Orchestre National de Lille, Pierre Dumoussaud
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
this is not any tenor, but an artist who aspires to recreate the style of the fabled French ténor de grâce with top notes sung from the head and not the chest...Crisp diction and a graceful...
So Romantique!
Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Orchestre National de Lille, Pierre Dumoussaud
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
this is not any tenor, but an artist who aspires to recreate the style of the fabled French ténor de grâce with top notes sung from the head and not the chest...Crisp diction and a graceful...
About
‘SO Romantique!’ illustrates the ‘profoundly sentimental’ side of French opera from the 1830s to the 1900s, which gradually came to be judged overwrought and was condemned to partial oblivion. ‘I am convinced that this is because the principals of interpretation were lost’, says the tenor Cyrille Dubois. ‘I have therefore put together this programme, which gives pride of place to rarities while highlighting the theatrical character and the use of registers so emblematic of the French ténor de grâce, in the hope of restoring this precious French heritage to its former glory.’ The sleuthing skills of the Palazzetto Bru Zane have assembled these treasures by Bizet, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Auber, Halévy, Donizetti, Thomas and Delibes, the less well-known Godard, Dubois and Silver, and the virtually unknown Luce-Varlet and Clapisson. With the Orchestre National de Lille conducted by Pierre Dumoussaud, the French tenor deploys the full range of his artistry, the impressive high notes, the luminous tone and the graceful phrasing that is ‘so Cyrille’!
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Cyrille Dubois on So Romantique!
23rd Mar 2023
The French light lyric tenor explains how he found his operatic niche as a lover rather than a fighter - and discusses his new album on Alpha Classics, featuring rarities by Louis Clapisson, Charles Luce-Verlet and Théodore Dubois alongside one or two old favourites...
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceMarch 2023
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International Opera Awards2023Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinner 2023
May 2023
this is not any tenor, but an artist who aspires to recreate the style of the fabled French ténor de grâce with top notes sung from the head and not the chest...Crisp diction and a graceful legato are coupled with elegantly produced tone and positively athletic decoration.
April 2023
Dubois is an incredibly tasteful singer and I can’t imagine any other tenor of today being as stylish an advocate for these unknown scores.
June 2023
The album is a treasury of rarely heard (and previously unheard) music...Dubois handles them all with intelligence, finesse and flair, singing with perfect native French diction.
March 2023
There are some absolute gems in this classy treasure-trove charting the history of the French ténor de grâce from the 1830s to the 1900s: listen out for the foreshadowings of Lohengrin (premiered five years later) in the first extract from Louis Clapisson's Gibby la cornemuse, or the verismo-ish sweep of arias from Charles Silver's Myriane and Théodore Dubois's Xavière. Cyrille Dubois's elegant phrasing, immaculate diction and inherent sweetness of tone provide enormous pleasure throughout.
