Geoffrey Agpalo, Nicole Cabell, Haymarket Opera Company - Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges: L'Amant anonyme (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:50:15 | 390 / 768 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Cedille
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:50:15 | 390 / 768 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Cedille
Haymarket Opera, Chicago’s premier early opera company that presents historically informed performances played on 18th-century classical era instruments, performs on this world-premiere recording of L’Amant Anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799).
Premiered in 1780, L’Amant Anonyme was the most successful of Bologne’s six operas and is the only one to survive to the present day. Based on a play by the composer’s patroness Félicité de Genlis, who was a respected writer of the era, the work is an opéra comique in two acts composed in the then-popular style that mixed sung parts with spoken dialogue.