Leclair - Scylla et Glaucus

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To earn the love of the beautiful Scylla, Glaucus calls the magician Circe to his aid, but she falls in love with him, pulling the trio into a tragic spiral presented here by Stefan Plewniak and his Giardino d'Amore! More details

JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR (1697–1764)
SCYLLA & GLAUCUS

Chiara Skerath • Mathias Vidal • Florie Valiquette • Victor Sicard • Cecile Achille • Lili Aymonino

Il Giardino d'Amore
Stefan Plewniak, direction

What if the tour de force of French opera in the Age of Enlightenment was Scylla et Glaucus? At the age of 50, the famous violinist Leclair decided to write his first operatic piece, investing irrepressible energy in it. The drama is unrelenting: the nymph Scylla spurns the advances of the Demigod Glaucus, who seeks out the sorceress Circe to cast a spell on her; Circe is in love with Glaucus, drives Scylla to madness and turns her into a deadly rock… An infernal scene, an ocean storm and final cataclysm are employed to give striking relief to this trio of unappeased love, the effusions of irresistible beauty. The conductor and violinist Stefan Plewniak conducts a glorious stage of soloists in the eddies of vengeance!

Recorded from April 12th to 17th in Warsaw.

Booklet French/English/German - Duration : 162ʼ49

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