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Offenbach: Barcarolle: Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Sascha Goetzel, Marianne Crebassa, Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte-Carlo & Fatma Said
Les contes d’Hoffmann, Act IV: "Scintille diamant"
The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano & Vito Priante
Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Barcarolle
Valery Gergiev & Vienna Philharmonic
Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Il Etait Une Fois A La Cour D'Eisenach (Extract)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Plácido Domingo
Offenbach: La Périchole, Act I: "Vous a-t-on dit souvent" (Piquillo, La Périchole)
Ben Glassberg, Marianne Crebassa, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse & Stanislas de Barbeyrac
Jacques Offenbach “Barcarolle” - Stefano Bigoni, piano
Stefano Bigoni
La belle Hélène: Aria "C’est le ciel qui m’envoi ce beau rêve amoureux"
Dame Felicity Lott, Yan Beuron, Marc Minkowski & Théâtre Musical de Paris – Châtelet
La belle Hélène: Aria "L'invocation à Venus"
Dame Felicity Lott, Marc Minkowski & Théâtre Musical de Paris – Châtelet
La belle Hélène: Aria "L'Amours Divins"
Dame Felicity Lott, Marc Minkowski & Théâtre Musical de Paris – Châtelet
Homecoming Concert – Nottingham
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
About Jacques Offenbach
Artist Biography
Jacques Offenbach is probably most widely known for the high-kicking Can-Can (more properly “Galop infernal”) that enlivens his satirical 1858 operetta Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld). More hits followed during the 1860s, such as La Belle Hélène (1864) and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867). Born in Cologne in 1819, but French by adoption, Offenbach composed a hundred or so comic operas which showcase his gift for lampooning social mores, not to mention the music of composers such as Berlioz and Wagner. Fuelled by a flair for supple melody, vivacity and a piquant wit, they drew the admiration of Bizet, Debussy and Rossini (who dubbed him the Mozart of the Champs-Élysées). Their influence also proved international, including the musical theatre of Gilbert & Sullivan in London and Johann Strauss II in Vienna. Harbouring ambitions for serious opera, Offenbach composed the unsuccessful Die Rheinnixen in 1864, while Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), unfinished at the time of his death in 1880, posthumously secured an enduring triumph.
Hometown
Cologne, Germany
Genre
Classical
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