News
Update on Opera Rara's Recording of Vert-Vert
The latest word from Opera Rara is that the recording of Vert-Vert took place in September with plans for the CD to be released in November 2009. The cast includes:
New DVD Recording of La Vie Parisienne
EMI / Virgin Classics have announced the release of a new DVD recording of La Vie Parisienne. The recording was filmed at the Lyon Opera's performances given between 18 December 2007 and 1 January 2008. This is the recent production by Laurent Pelly. The cast includes Marc Callahan, Laurent Naouri and Michelle Canniccioni and is conducted by Sébastien Rouland. The catalogue number is 5193019. This should not be confused with an earlier Opera Lyon DVD recording from 1991, conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce.
New CD Recording: Madame Papillon ... ou Presque
A CD of a reconstruction of the early and lost operetta Madame Papillon presented at an Offenbach festival in Switzerland in 2007. The reconstruction work was done by Jérôme Collomb, who revised the original Ludovic Halély libretto and incorporated five songs by Offenbach with their original lyrics. The operetta is a short work for two voices. The CD also includes four piano pieces by Olivier Métra and Renaud de Vilbac: a FRantasy based on La Boulangère a des écus; another Fantasy on Les Braconniers; a Quadrille on La Jolie Parfumeuse and a Waltz based on themes from Madame l'Archiduc.
The cost of the CS including postage is € 20. M. Collomb has a PayPal account (send payment to offenbach31121984@hotmail.fr) and can be contacted by e-mail on jrme.collomb@gmail.com.
New CD: Madame Favart
Malibran has released a new 2 CD set of the three-act operetta Madame Favart. The production is from one done in 1953 with Fanéle Revoil in the title role. Also included are new transcriptions of several operetta arias that had been separately recorded by Fanéle Revoil. The catalogue number is MR-698.
Malibran is a mail order company in France anc can be reached at:
119 route du Grand Morin
77515 La Celle sur Morin
France
Their catalogue can be seen at: www.malibran.com
A New Record Label: Orphée 58
Jean-Christophe Keck has established a new record label and intends to publish an aggressive Offenbach program. His first edition is a double CD of dance music based on Offenbach operettas, "Folies dansantes chez Offenbach". The CD, published in September, is available at € 20.
M. Keck has established an arrangement with the Institute National Audiovisuel (INA) that will permit him to publish all of the Offenbach tapes preserved in their institution. The first of these, now in preparation, will be a double CD of La Fille du Tambour-Major originally recorded in 1947, conducted by Marcel Cariven and featuring Roberte Jan and Lucien Lovano.
More information is available from www.orphee58.com or by writing to:
Le Freyssinet
05220 Le Monêtier les bains
France
You can also request an e-mail notification of each new publication by sending a note to: Orphee58@wanadoo.fr
Extracted from December 2008 Newsletter
