Cyril Auvity reviews
Si vous vouliez un jour... Airs by Camus, Charpentier, M Lambert & Moulinié
Emmanuelle de Negri, Anna Reinhold, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Cyril Auvity, Lisandro Abadie;
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Harmonia Mundi)
Lully: Isis
Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (Aparté)
A radiant restoration of Lully’s Isis
'Rousset pushes performers to their dramatic limits which highlights their flawless execution'
Rameau's Les Indes Galantes (The Amorous Indies)
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Paul Agnew directs Monteverdi's L’Orfeo
British tenor Paul Agnew tackles an operatic triathlon here, as soloist (in the roles of Eco and Apollo), and as both musical and stage director of this new production of L’Orfeo filmed at the Théâtre de Caen. His mise en scène paints a series of pastoral tableaux with apt simplicity – a welcome change from the anachronisms directors often impose on early opera (though the singers’ actions would have benefitted from a little more direction).