Franz Fuchs - Auber: Le cheval de bronze (Sung in German) (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 409 MB | Tracks: 27 | 88:14 min
Style: Classical | Label: Orfeo
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 409 MB | Tracks: 27 | 88:14 min
Style: Classical | Label: Orfeo
Daniel Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was the most amiable French composer of the 19th century. His sparkling and beautiful overtures were once universally as famous as those of Rossini and Suppé. The greatest turning point in Auber’s life was meeting the librettist Eugène Scribe (1791-1861), with whom he developed a long and hugely successful working partnership. Success followed success; works such as Le Macon (1825) and La Muette de Portici (1828) brought Auber public fame and official recognition. Le Cheval de bronze, an opéra-féerique in three acts, derived from the tale « Les Sept Fils du Calender » in The Arabian Nights, unfolds in Shantung providence in a fairy tale China of long ago.