Opera-ballet in one prologue and three acts, on a libretto by Jean-François Regnard, premiered at the Royal Academy of Music on February 28,1699.
Herve Niquet, conductor
Salomé Halle: Isabelle
Marina De Liso: Léonore
Sarah Tynan: Euridice
Blandine Staskiewicz: Minerve, la Fortune, un'ombra Fortuna
Andrew Foster-Williams: Rodolphe
Alain Buet: Léandre
Mathias Vidal: Un des arts, un Musiciens, un esclavon, un Masque, le Chef des Castellans, un Gondolier, Orfeo
Luigi De Donato: l'Ordonnateur, le Carnaval, Plutone
Le Concert Spirituel, choir and orchestra
Recorded in Paris (Salle Colonne) in January 2011
Engineered by Manuel Mohino & Produced by Dominique Daigremont
Score edited by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
In his famous Carnaval de Venise (1699), André Campra makes an astonishing synthesis of poetry between the styles of Lully, Lalande, Monteverdi and Cavalli, and even anticipates, in this picture of a legendary and dreamed of Venice, Handel and Rameau.
Based on an edition prepared by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel once again reveal a jewel of French operatic art, after Proserpine by Lully, Sémélé by Marais or Andromaque by Grétry.
To discover absolutely!
