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Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde

Anne-Catherine Gillet (Zanetta), Virginie Verrez (Le Prince Raphael), Antoinette Dennefeld (Régina), Josh Lovell (Le Prince Casimir), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Paul Daniel

Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde

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a score that races and fizzes like a well-tuned steam train and telling teases about upwardly mobile social ambitions and an infantilised ruling class...the hero of this splendid set is Paul...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20235 out of 5 stars

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Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde

Anne-Catherine Gillet (Zanetta), Virginie Verrez (Le Prince Raphael), Antoinette Dennefeld (Régina), Josh Lovell (Le Prince Casimir), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Paul Daniel

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Awards:

a score that races and fizzes like a well-tuned steam train and telling teases about upwardly mobile social ambitions and an infantilised ruling class...the hero of this splendid set is Paul...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20235 out of 5 stars

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A travelling circus, an innocent prince in love with a waxwork and a lottery ticket to win a magnificent castle… What can possibly go wrong? The delightful opera La Princesse de Trébizonde is packed with earworm melodies and irresistible joie-de-vivre characteristic of Offenbach’s musical style.

Following the award-winning releases of Fantasio (2015) and Vert-Vert (2009), Opera Rara presents its 4th complete opera recording by Jacques Offenbach, a composer considered the father of the operetta and whose pioneering work influenced greatly many composers in the 20th century.

Conductor Paul Daniel leads an all-star cast including Virginie Verrez and Anne-Catherine Gillet in this premiere recording of Jean-Christophe Keck’s critical edition.

  • Release date: 22nd Sep 2023
  • Label: Opera Rara
  • Catalogue number: 9293800632
  • Length: 2 hours 0 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde: Ouverture
Work length6:40
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde, Act I
Work length22:11
Introduction 'Entrez, messieurs et dames' (Chorus, le Directeur)
Track length0:53
Introduction 'Ce chateau mis en loterie' (Chorus)
Track length1:25
Introduction 'Messieurs, pretez-moi vos oreilles' (Tremolini, chorus)
Track length1:49
Dialogue 'Eh bien, Papa, il n'y a donc pas de seance' (Regina, Cabriolo, Paola, Zanetta)
Track length0:45
Couplets du nez casse 'Ah quel malheur' (Zanetta, Regina, Paola, Tremolini, Cabriolo)
Track length2:12
Dialogue 'La Princesse de Trébizonde, la merveille de ma collection' (Cabriolo, Regina, Tremolini, Paola)
Track length0:25
Chanson 'Quand je suis sur la corde raide' (Regina)
Track length1:37
Dialogue 'C'est bon ! La representation va commencer' (Cabriolo, Regina, Sparadrap, Raphael)
Track length0:44
Romance des tourterelles 'Une jeune fille passait' (Raphael)
Track length2:06
Dialogue 'Mais comment? Vous n'avez pas d'argent!' (Sparadrap, Raphael)
Track length0:52
Finale 'Ah Ce spectacle etait charmant' (Chorus, Zanetta, Cabriolo, Tremolini, Regina, le Directeur)
Track length3:12
Finale 'Treize cent treize' (Chorus, Cabriolo, Zanetta, Regina)
Track length2:59
Finale 'Adieu, patron, moi je vous quitte' (Tremolini, Cabriolo, Regina, Paola)
Track length1:01
Finale 'Adieu, baraque hereditaire' (Zanetta, Regina, Paola, Trémolini, Cabriolo, Chorus)
Track length2:11
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde: Entracte to Act II
Work length2:17
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde, Act II
Work length25:16
Dialogue 'Ah Dame On rit pas souvent ici' (Regina, Paola, Cabriolo, Zanetta)
Track length0:55
Quintette des assiettes 'Oh ! Oui c'etait le bon temps' (Cabriolo, Tremolini, Zanetta, Regina, Paola)
Track length3:24
Dialogue 'Oh J'avais besoin de ca' (Cabriolo, Regina, Paola, Tremolini, Raphael, Zanetta, Sparadrap, Casimir)
Track length1:12
Choeur de chasse 'Voila un tas de chasseurs' (Cabriolo, Chorus, Paola, Zanetta, Regina, Tremolini)
Track length1:40
Dialogue 'Ils s'eloignent' (Raphael)
Track length0:13
Duo 'La voila' (Raphael, Zanetta)
Track length5:34
Dialogue 'Oui, mon cher amour' (Raphael, Zanetta, Casimir, Sparadrap)
Track length0:33
Couplets de la canne 'Me maquille-je comme on dit' (Casimir)
Track length2:03
Dialogue 'Vous etes bien connu, Prince' (Sparadrap, Casimir, Raphael)
Track length0:34
Couplets 'Elle est peinte admirablement' (Raphael)
Track length1:58
Dialogue 'Quand tu auras ta princesse' (Casimir, Raphael, Paola, Cabriolo)
Track length1:09
Finale 'Quoi, c'est le prince Casimir' (Chorus, Casimir, Cabriolo, Regina, Zanetta, Tremolini, Sparadrap, Paola)
Track length1:17
Finale 'Femme du grand Rhotomago' (Zanetta, Chorus)
Track length2:33
Finale 'Mon bonheur est complet' (Chorus)
Track length2:11
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde: Entracte to Act III
Work length1:12
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde, Act III
Work length27:52
Choeur des pages 'Ah quel ennui Quel sot metier' (Les pages)
Track length1:04
Couplets des pages 'Cet enfant manquait d'audace' (Les pages)
Track length1:54
Dialogue 'Mon papa part pour la chasse aux flambeaux' (Raphael)
Track length0:15
Romance 'Fleur qui se fane avant d'eclore' (Raphael)
Track length2:24
Dialogue 'Tada Nous voila en fete' (Cabriolo, Zanetta, Regina, Paola, Tremolini, Sparadrap)
Track length0:24
Choeur and couplets 'Voila le prince Casimir' (Cabriolo, Chorus, Casimir, Sparadrap, Raphael)
Track length2:26
Dialogue 'Vive le prince Casimir' (Sparadrap, Casimir)
Track length0:22
Ariette du mal de dents 'D'où vient cette crise soudaine' (Casimir, Raphael, Zanetta, Regina, Paola, Tremolini, Sparadrap, Chorus)
Track length3:17
'Tu souffres donc beaucoup' (Zanetta, Raphael, Casimir, Chorus)
Track length0:06
'Ah C'est trop souffrir' (Chorus)
Track length0:23
Dialogue 'Regina ! Ton pere' (Tremolini, Regina)
Track length0:21
Duo de l'enlevement 'Moment fatal, helas' (Tremolini, Regina)
Track length3:23
Ronde des pages 'Faisons notre ronde' (Les pages)
Track length1:36
Dialogue 'Ah J'entends le craquement d'une chaussure' (Paola, Regina, Zanetta, Sparadrap, Tremolini, Raphael)
Track length0:38
Morceau d'ensemble 'Nous voila Nous voila Nous voila' (Les pages, Sparadrap, Raphael, Zanetta, Tremolini)
Track length1:53
Morceau d'ensemble 'O malvoisie' (Raphael, Zanetta, Regina, Sparadrap, Tremolini, Chorus)
Track length2:45
Morceau d'ensemble 'La la la la' (Chorus)
Track length1:33
Dialogue 'Ecoutez, on a frappe' (Paola, Casimir, Sparadrap, Raphael, Regina, Cabriolo)
Track length2:00
Finale 'Allons Mariez-vous tous' (Casimir, Zanetta, Chorus)
Track length1:08
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde (Baden-Baden Version), Act I
Work length19:12
Choeur et scene 'Fetons l'anniversaire' (Chorus, Cicognini, jeunes filles, Cabriolo, le Baron, Regina, Paola)
Track length6:48
Couplets de Zanetta 'Pardon papa' (Zanetta)
Track length2:36
Romance de Raphael 'Elle agitait son eventail' (Raphael)
Track length2:20
Quatuor 'Oh les belles femmes' (Sparadrap, Casimir, Regina, Paola)
Track length7:28
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde (Baden-Baden Version): Entracte to Act II
Work length2:47
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde (Baden-Baden Version), Act II
Work length8:10
Choeur et ensemble 'Non ! Rien ne vaut ce musee' (Chorus, Tremolini, Pietro, Carlo, Peppo, Horcio)
Track length3:36
Duo avec choeur 'Quand un papa part' (Zanetta, Raphael, Chorus)
Track length4:34
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde (Baden-Banden Version), Act II: Trio du melon 'Que c'est bon le melon' (Regina, Tremolini, Zanetta, Raphael)
Work length5:05

Spotlight on this release

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    November 2023
    Recording of the Month
  • International Classical Music Awards
    2024
    Nominated - Premiere Recordings
  • Opus Klassik Awards
    2024
    Winner - Opera Recording of the Year

November 2023

a score that races and fizzes like a well-tuned steam train and telling teases about upwardly mobile social ambitions and an infantilised ruling class...the hero of this splendid set is Paul Daniel, who knows exactly how to take risks with Offenbach’s tempos, the final galop leaving you completely winded. Daniel and the LPO remind us of how skilled an orchestrator Offenbach was.
5 out of 5 stars

November 2023

The orchestra slips easily between pastel delicacy and breezy panache, the chorus is up-front, crisp and bright and the whole thing has an immediacy that Daniel suggests is an attempt to recreate the acoustic of the Bouffes-Parisiens.
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