Dis-moi Vénus... L'amour sous Louis XV

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Let yourself be seduced by the greatest love songs of French music under Louis XV: Rameau, Mondonville, Rebel and Francoeur, Niel and Mouret, will be served up ardor and passion by soprano Marie Perbost with the complicity of conductor Gaétan Jarry.More details

Rameau's greatest love songs, Mondonville, Rebel, Francoeur, Niel & Mouret

Marie Perbost Soprano

Choeur & Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal
Gaétan Jarry Conductor

Venus, goddess of sensuality and great orchestrator of pleasures, pulls the strings of opera characters as if they were puppets in the land of Tendre. With great delectation, Marie Perbost invokes the goddess and the heroines of French opera from the century of Louis XV to embody all the victims of passions unleashed by Aphrodite. There are masterpieces and discoveries here, from the satirical mockery of Madness in Rameau’s Platée to the virtuosic pages of Mondonville in Les Fêtes de Paphos. By turns pastoral and piquant, tender and fiery, the divine Marie Perbost, supported by Gaétan Jarry, embraces all the music of love under Louis XV. A medley of jesting and fleeting romances, grace and libertinism, experience the delirium of the senses titillated by Eros and Cupid!

Recorded from 7th to 9th January 2023 in the Salle Marengo at the Palace of Versailles.

Booklet French/English/German - Duration: 55'38

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