French Opera?

[Classical Performances]

You might want to give this a try:
http://www.amazon.com/Romantic-French-Arias-Joan-Sutherland/dp/B000PMFTEK

[SKYIO]

Everyone is on the French Opera topic, but no one seems to care about Italian Opera topic...

[Wendell_E]

Everyone is on the French Opera topic, but no one seems to care about Italian Opera topic...

I think it's the initial question about opera as background music that kills the thread.  "Italian Opera as Background Music" might have been a better thread title, though I don't know if the response would have been better.  There's certainly plenty of discussion of Italian opera in other threads:  485 posts in the "VERDI King of Italian Opera" thread, 75 in the "Puccini vs. Verdi" thread, 72 just in the "Aida" thread, etc.

[SKYIO]

I think it's the initial question about opera as background music that kills the thread.  "Italian Opera as Background Music" might have been a better thread title, though I don't know if the response would have been better.  There's certainly plenty of discussion of Italian opera in other threads:  485 posts in the "VERDI King of Italian Opera" thread, 75 in the "Puccini vs. Verdi" thread, 72 just in the "Aida" thread, etc.

ah thanks, I thought it was some other underlying issue. Like I had a slight feeling that maybe the vast majority of Opera is Italian, and that the question 'Opera in Italian' kind of absurd is, because it's the main medium. I don't know what the main medium of Opera is. What is it? I'l look it up, hang on.. Oh god damn it, I looked it up. Opera Started it Italy!!! Haha. This makes the thread seem even more silly.

[pjme]

Taken by tuberculosis at the age of 36, on the eve of the First World War, the Caen-born composer Gabriel Dupont was one of the last representatives of French Romanticism, second prize winner of the Prix de Rome in 1901, alongside André Caplet and Maurice Ravel. He left behind a sensitive and delicate body of work, deeply personal and largely unknown.

 In partnership with the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre for French Romantic Music in Venice, the Caen Conservatory & Orchestra is working to rectify this unjust oversight. After dedicating study days to him in 2022, punctuated by musical interludes, La Cabrera is being performed for the first time in Caen. With this lyric drama, created in Milan in 1904 and performed on several European stages, Gabriel Dupont won the third and final edition of the Sonzogno Competition, beating more than two hundred other candidates. Weakened by illness, he was unable to fully enjoy his success.

Tuesday 9 Décembre 2025 à 20h

https://conservatoire-orchestre.caen.fr/evenement/la-cabrera

Bongiovanni recorded in ca 2015 an Italian version.