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Summary:

Médée , a tragedy in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, was Marc-Antoine Charpentier's first and last collaboration with the Académie Royale de Musique. The work was premiered on 4 December 1693, when Charpentier was exactly fifty years old and at the height of his career. Louis XIV attended the performance, proving that it was an eagerly awaited event. Yet this sombre drama, which disconcerted the public, was withdrawn after just ten performances, and not heard again until 1976. A specialist in the French repertory and a close associate of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, where he has followed all the advances in research and historically informed performance for thirty-five years, Hervé Niquet has endeavoured, in presenting this new Médée, scrupulously to apply all the scholarly findings available to us today.

Author/Creator:

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine, 1643-1704 , composer

Contributors:

Corneille, Thomas, 1625-1709 , librettist

Niquet, Hervé , conductor

Gens, Véronique , singer

Dubois, Cyrille , singer

Wanroij, Judith van , singer

Dolié, Thomas, 1979- , singer

Witczak, David , singer

Carpentier, Hélène , singer

Fournaison, Adrien , singer

Hasler, Floriane , singer

Tricou, David , singer

Hyon, Fabien , singer

Amzal, Jehanne , singer

Lafdal-Franc, Marine , singer

Concert spirituel (Musical group) , singer, instrumentalist, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sng, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/itr

Languages:

French
English
German

Language Notes:

Sung in French.

Main Work:

Médée [by Charpentier, M.A.]

Included Works:

Medée [by Charpentier, M.A.]

Subjects:

Operas

Genres:

Operas

Performers:

Véronique Gens, Cyrille DuBois, Judith Van Wanrou, Thomas Dolié, David Witczak, Hélène Carpentier, Adriend Fournaison, Floriane Hasler, David Tricou, Fabien Hyon, Jehanne Amzal, Marine Lafdal-Franc ; Le Concert Spirituel ; Hervé Niquet, conductor.

Performance Medium:

Singer; mixed chorus; orchestra

General Notes:

Recorded 2023 March Cité de la Musique et de la Danse de Soissons, France.
Program notes, synopsis, and performers' biographical notes in French, English, and German; and libretto in French with English translation (91 pages) laid in container.
Title from disc label.

Physical Description:

3 audio discs (2:50:43) ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 163,885- 163,887

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 3701624510209
Publisher Number, Alpha Classics: ALPHA 1020

OCLC Numbers:

1443000015