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Anne Sofie von Otter Sings Offenbach.(Sound Recording Review)
[] "SINGS OFFENBACH" Arias, ensembles and orchestral pieces. With Leger, d'Oustrac, Grapperon, Henry, Keek, Naouri, Ragon; Les Musiciens du Louvre (Grenoble), Minkowski. Text and translations. DG 471501
Following Marc Minkowski's enchanting La Belle Helene with Britain's Felicity Lott, the Chatelet asked the conductor to return with an Offenbach concert in late 2001, this time starring Sweden's Anne Sofie von Otter. The question arises: is this a trend, or are there no Frenchwomen today to do justice to Pere Jacques?
The current CD booklet notes don't address this chauvinist issue, but they do confirm that the general public's knowlege of Offenbach's vast output still stays within the predictable Hoffmann and can-can borders. To remedy this, Minkowski balances several familiar numbers from the celebrated opera-bouffes of the 1860s with rarities. Strangest are the orchestral items: a long, non-theatrical overture from 1843 that demonstrates the young Cologne-born composer's affinity to the German Romantics, and a Wagner take-off (from a Bouffes-Parisiens revue) entitled The Symphony of the Future, which imposes supercharged orchestral silliness on a familiar dance tune. More scintillating are a lovely vocal ballad to the moon from Fantasio, an Opera-Comique flop, and the dotty alphabet sextet from Madame l'Archiduc, which--with its ...
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...back. _K.S. ___ Classical: ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER "Sings Offenbach" Von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Les Musiciens du Louvre...though often delightful and recommendable to any von Otter admirer, it doesn't add up to all it can be...
