Viardot / Owens / Turgenev: Dernier Sorcier

Viardot / Owens / Turgenev: Dernier Sorcier - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Dernier Sorcier

Artist:

Viardot / Owens / Turgenev

Label:

Bridge

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

090404951527

Genre:

Classical

Sub Genre:

Opera/Operetta

Release Date:

2019-03-01

Number of Discs:

1

150 years after it's composition, a lost opera is recovered and a vanished voice restored. A recently rediscovered treasure by one of the most compelling artists of the nineteenth century, Le dernier sorcier (The Last Sorcerer) resonates with themes of power and progress, gender and equality, and the restoration of natural order in an ever-changing world - a feminist eco-fable in operatic form. The work is a chamber opera in two acts written by Pauline Viardot to a French libretto by Ivan Turgenev. It premiered privately in 1867 at the Villa Turgenev in Baden-Baden and received it's first public performance at the Court Theatre in Weimar in April 1869. The story focuses on Krakamiche, an old and once-powerful sorcerer whose presence in the woods has upset the elves living there, and a romance between the sorcerer's daughter Stella and Prince Lelio, whose marriage comes about through the intervention of a Queen of the Elves.

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