SACCHINI, Manon Feubel, Fabrice Mantegna, Orchestra of the Camerata de Bourgogne, Jean-Paul PeninOedipe a Colone

Marek Koszur — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:21:57 +0000

For the staging of Odipe à Colone Antonio Sacchini could count on the support of Marie Antoinette Queen of France, who wanted to inaugurate, with this opera, the new theatre of Versailles on 4th January 1786. Due to inadequate machinery and some poor performances, however, success was not what had been expected. To console Sacchini of the near-failure, the Queen promised him to have Odipe repeated under better circumstances in the autumn, at Fontainebleau with the company of the Opéra, but the terrible events of the necklace affair made her too vulnerable to impose her choice. Already gravely ill, the composer took the news very badly: he died a few days later, in the night of October 8th, 1786. The première of Odipe à Colone took place on 1st February 1787 at Paris’s Opéra, in front of a full house. It was a triumph. Odipe à Colone kept reaping exceptional success up until 1844, reaching almost 600 performances and enthusing renowned composers such as Piccini and Berlioz.

World première recording

Cast
Antigone Manon Feubel
Polynice Fabrice Mantegna
Thésée Daniel Galvez
Oedipe Sviatoslav Smirnov
Eriphile Raphaëlle Farman
Le Grand Prêtre Jacques Gay
Une Athénienne Géraldine Casey

Conductor
Jean-Paul Penin

Orchestra
Orchestra of the Camerata de Bourgogne(Orchestre de la Camerata de Bourgogne)

Chorus
Chamber Choir of the Camerata de Bourgogne (Choeur de Chambre de la Camerata de Bourgogne)

Artykuł SACCHINI, Manon Feubel, Fabrice Mantegna, Orchestra of the Camerata de Bourgogne, Jean-Paul Penin
Oedipe a Colone pochodzi z serwisu Cleartone.

Jean-Paul Penin - Cleartone

SACCHINI, Manon Feubel, Fabrice Mantegna, Orchestra of the Camerata de Bourgogne, Jean-Paul PeninOedipe a Colone