A Victory music

My exploration of the work of Ottorino Respighi me after the pines and fountains of Rome and other Roman festivals, rather quickly led to Marie Victoire especially since this opera has a libretto in French.
A Victory for Marie really resurrected, composed between 1912 and 1914, its first planned in 1915 did not take place. The First World War had been there. Italy was neutral in this war, but the opera dealt with the French Revolution and this is probably the topic that made fear. Marie Victoire remained in the pipeline and could even be lost.

And it took 90 years for Marie Victoire is finally propelled onto the stage of the Opera of Rome January 27, 2004 under the direction of Gianluigi Gelmetti. A preferred world premiere with Nelly Miricioiu in the lead role.

This recording was captured during public performances in April 2009 at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
The orchestral part is post romantic, tormented enough as could be the period of the French Revolution, which serves as a backdrop and the leader Michail Jurowski (son of composer and father of Vladimir Vladimir chef also) lives up to rutiler the Berlin orchestra and directing his choirs.
The treatment of voice is very Italian, with high priority given to the main character, Marie Victoire.

The soprano Takesha Kizart is Meshe Marie Victoire. And superbly.
A role in whose service she puts her powerful voice but also all its guts.
The album cover is eloquent in this regard.
Note that in a family with Tina Turner and Muddy Waters, it could have been a queen of soul, the next Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. Instead, the American soprano opted for opera and became "the Beyoncé of opera."
The baritone Markus Bruck and Spanish tenor German Villar interpret Maurice and Cloviere, the two men who love her. This quite clearly less interesting to hear because of its fairly pronounced Spanish accent.
The plot is that of a drama on French revolution background, his reunion with hectic and twists.

CPO, as very often made things quite well with hearty blurbs and full libretto for the opera in trilingual version.

This opera, however, has a slight defect is that it is very long, 4 acts on nearly three hours, and I arranged myself relatively long intermissions between CD 1 and 2 and 2 and 3 to hear it in its entirety. It's "lungo terribilmente" as himself said Respighi, so you have to learn to love which involves several plays ...

But the greatest dissatisfaction is the fact that listening to this opera we would actually see on stage live before our eyes.
This may be again soon possible. Indeed Laurent Brunner, CEO of Versailles Spectacles has plans to mount at Versailles. We wish him success in this business.