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Messager: Fortunio

Year

2023

Language

FRENCH (ENGLISH subtitles)

Duration

2h 2m

Rating

NR

CC

Performers

Cyrille Dubois, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Franck Leguérinel, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Choeur Les Éléments, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Louis Langrée, Denis Podalydès, Christian Lacroix

Directed By

François Roussillon

Written By

André Messager

Publication Information

Naxos

Summary

André Messager's Fortunio premiered in 1907 at the Opéra Comique, where it received acclaim that was to last decades. One of the last composers to devote his entire career to opera and operetta, Messager exemplified in his music a feeling for dramatic pacing and the spirit of the Belle Époque, qualities that permeate Fortunio, a comédie lyrique in which the dialogue in the libretto is given a continuous musical setting. Taking Alfred de Musset's play Le Chandelier as his source, Messager explores upper-class society at the turn of the 19th century with subtlety of characterisation and a thoroughly French orchestral transparency.

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