Peter Fox Smith explores Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and the Gluck opera of which it is a parody – as well as a couple of historic excerpts from Offenbach’s La Perichole.
Offenbach
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Playlist:
12:00 pm
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt)
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
- CD/Album: Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80544
- Release Year: 2000
12:04 pm
- Orphée aux enfers: Overture
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Arranger: Carl Binder
- Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Paul Paray
- CD/Album: Marches and Overtures à la Française
- Record co./Cat #: Mercury 434332
- Release Year: 1993
12:13 pm
- Orphée aux enfers: "La femme dont le cœur rêve"; "Ah! c'est ainsi!"
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Michel Sénéchal, tenor
- Conductor: Michel Plasson
- CD/Album: Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647
- Release Year: 1979
12:25 pm
- Orphée aux enfers: "Quand j’étais roi de Béotie"
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Soloists: Bruce Brewer, tenor
- Conductor: Michel Plasson
- CD/Album: Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647
- Release Year: 1979
12:27 pm
- Orphée aux enfers: "J'ai vu le Dieu Bacchus"
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Orchestre et Chœurs du Capitole de Toulouse
- Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Michèle Pena, soprano ; Michèle Command, soprano ; Charles Burles, tenor
- Conductor: Michel Plasson
- CD/Album: Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647
- Release Year: 1979
12:30 pm
- Orphée aux enfers: Finale
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Orchestre et Chœurs du Capitole de Toulouse
- Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Michel Sénéchal, tenor ; Charles Burles, tenor ; Michel Trempont, baritone ; Jane Rhodes, mezzo-soprano
- Conductor: Michel Plasson
- CD/Album: Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647
- Release Year: 1979
12:34 pm
- La Périchole: "O, mon cher Armand"
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Soloists: Germaine Corney, soprano
- CD/Album: Tales of Offenbach
- Record co./Cat #: Club "99" 511
- Release Year: 1989
12:38 pm
- La Périchole: "Tu n'es pas beau"
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Soloists: Maggie Teyte, soprano
- CD/Album: Tales of Offenbach
- Record co./Cat #: Club "99" 511
- Release Year: 1989
12:42 pm
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Finale
- Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Ensemble: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
- Soloists: Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano ; Hilde Güden, soprano ; Magda Gabory, soprano
- Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
- CD/Album: Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
- Record co./Cat #: Urania 22.290
- Release Year: 2006