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Esclarmonde / Jules Massenet.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912, composer, composer.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
- Live sound recordings.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (2 hr., 28 min., 4 sec.))
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1976]
- Language Note:
- Sung in French.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- audio file streaming audio file
- Summary:
- Parisian audiences in 1889 were thrilled by Massenet's wizardry in telling the story of Esclarmonde, the princess of Byzantium with magical powers, and her love for the heroic knight Roland. But the title role was so difficult that the opera languished for decades, until Joan Sutherland, with her dazzling ability to sing the most fearsome embellishments, brought this jewel of an opera to life for modern audiences.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Dignitaires! Guerriers!
- Prologue: O divine Esclarmonde!
- Roland! Roland! Comme ce nom me trouble étrangement
- Parséis! O ma soeur
- On vient, ma soeur
- C'en est fait! Je ne resiste plus
- O lune! triple Hécate!
- Roland!
- C'est lui!
- Ah! Ah! Ah! (Dance des esprits)
- Où suis-je? Dans ce sejour inconnu
- Sois bénie, ò magie
- Étrange créature
- Hélas! Ma bien aimée!
- Ami, songe au serment que tu dois respecter!
- Écoute encor!
- Vierges au coeur innocent
- O glaive, à ton aspect je m'incline!
- O Blois, misérable cité!
- Kyrie eleison
- Moi!
- Le chevalier Roland
- Mais tandis que Roland va combattre pour nous
- Victoire! Victoire!
- Gloire! Chantons notre victoire
- Le peuple délivré
- Mon fils, je te bénis
- A genoux! Je ne saurais t'absoudre!
- Ah! Roland!
- Ah! C'est elle!
- O doux frisson d'amour
- O Roland, tu m'as trahie
- Entendez tous ce que ma voix proclame
- C'est en vous que j'espère
- Les Temps vont s'accomplir
- Elle a voulu choisir elle-meme un epoux
- D'une longue torpeur je sens que je meveille
- Où suis-je maintenant?
- J'accomplirai le sacrifice!
- Renonce à ton amant
- Epilogue: Dignitaires! Guerriers!
- Epilogue: Qu'importe que je me nomme.
- Participant:
- Joan Sutherland ; Huguette Tourangeau ; Giacomo Aragall ; Clifford Grant ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Richard Bonynge, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 1976 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Duration: 2 hr., 28 min., 4 sec.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 859396704
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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