William Christie, Cappella Coloniensis - Antoine Dauvergne: Les Troqueurs (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 382 Mb | Total time: 72:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMC 901454 | Recorded: 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 382 Mb | Total time: 72:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMC 901454 | Recorded: 1992
The appearance on disc of Antoine Dauvergne's opera-bouffon of 1753, Les Troqueurs is at once a happy occasion and a frustrating one. For while we can rejoice at the chance to make the acquaintance of this charming little intermede, it also serves to remind us that there are an awful lot of French comic operas from the second half of the eighteenth century that remain unheard. This is repertory that is both interesting and important to the history of opera in general, and Les Troqueurs is the work that stands at its head, for following as it did on the heels of the influential Paris performances of Pergolesi's La serva padrona it was the first real attempt at a wholly French comic opera in the same modern, dramatically light-footed mould.