Rameau: Les Indes Galantes

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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director)

[ Alpha DVD / DVD ]

Release Date: Monday 1 August 2016

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Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

The Niquet, Shirley & Dino trio was formed on the occasion of Purcell's King Arthur, a show that marked the lyric stage and the world of the DVD. Five years later, their complicity has been further reinforced, and they present a work close to Hervé Niquet's heart: Boismortier's Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse.

This opera-ballet, written for Carnival and first performed in Paris in 1743, occupies a particular place in Hervé Niquet's career since it was the first work played by Le Concert Spirituel 27 years ago: 'In addition to being composed by a genius of the Enlightenment, this comic opera is a gem of music, wit and humour,' says he.

The wit of the famous Benizio couple is felicitously expressed in this story of which they have rewritten the comedy scenes, which had disappeared: 'From this succession of episodes, one more incongruous than the next, from this incredible accumulation of remarkably constructed gags (Niquet as Don Quichotte, Corinne Benizio/Shirley in a hilarious cantadora number, accompanied by Hervé Niquet with castanets, Gilles/Dino singing - not too badly! - a courtly air with harpsichord whilst the hysterical Duchess bellows in the wings), ensues a perfectly mad show' (ResMusica).

The whole thing with all the necessary strictness in reproducing the music... Worth noting: the performance of the singer-actors and the splendid costumes and sets. A total spectacle filmed at the Royal Opera of the Château de Versailles.

Bonus: a 52-minute documentary on the behind-the-scenes preparation of the production.

Format: DVD - NTSC - DVD9 - stereo

"As Altisidore, a part originally sung by Marie Fel, Chantal Santon Jeffert provides the best singing in the show. Marc Labonette makes an engaging, Papageno-like Sancho. Francois-Nicolas Geslot acts well enough as the Knight of Sorrowful Countenance…but his singing sounds effortful and strained." (Gramophone)

"The performers have enormous fun with Boismortier's opera." (BBC Music Opera Choice April 2016)