Desmarest - Circé

N°85

€30

Here is a tragedy in music whose dramatic force sweeps away everything in its path! Meet the evil and loving Circe, played by the flamboyant Véronique Gens, alongside Sébastien d'Hérin and his Nouveaux Caractères! More details

CIRCÉ
HENRY DESMAREST (1661-1741)

Tragedy in music with a prologue and five acts, on a libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, created in Paris in 1694.

Véronique Gens · Caroline Mutel · Cécile Achille · Romain Bockler Mathias Vidal · Nicolas Courjal

Les Nouveaux Caractères
Sébastien d’Hérin, conductor

Desmarest was something of a frustrated genius. A precocious musician, he had a great career in opera from 1693 to 1698. His destiny was broken when he kidnapped the love of his life and fled to Brussels to escape a death sentence. Kapellmeister to the King of Spain, Philippe V in 1701, then to the Duke of Lorraine, Paris remained off-limits to him until 1720... Circé (1694) was his apotheosis, the meeting of Ulysses and the sorceress, a superb and supernatural heroine. The dramatic force of the work is a stimulus for the flamboyant Véronique Gens who plays the evil lover!

Recorded from January 10th to 12th 2022 at the Royal Opera of Versailles.

Booklet French/English/German - Duration: 155'16

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