Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opera National de Bordeaux & Marc Minkowsk

• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864): Robert le Diable:
• 1Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable: Ouverture03:27
• Robert le Diable, Act I:
• 2Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act I: Introduction. Versez à tasse pleine06:08
• 3Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act I: Ballade et Récit. Jadis régnait en Normandie06:18
• 4Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act I: Récit. Ô mon prince ! Ô mon maître !02:44
• 5Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act I: Romance. Va, dit-elle, va, mon enfant06:50
• 6Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act I: Récit. Je n’ai pu fermer sa paupière !06:54
• 7Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act I: Scène. Le duc de Normandie, à vos plaisirs01:23
• 8Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act I: Sicilienne. Ô fortune ! à ton caprice03:10
• 9Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act I: Scène du Jeu. Quinze !04:41
• Robert le Diable, Act II:
• 10Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Entracte et Récit. Où me cacher, quelle horreur !03:19
• 11Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Prière et Marche. Oh ! ma mère, ombre si tendre08:27
• 12Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Récit et Air. Que je hais les grandeurs12:35
• 13Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Récit. Courage ! allons, montrez-vous à ses yeux00:25
• 14Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Duo. Avec bonté voyez ma peine06:01
• 15Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Récit. À toi, Robert de Normandie02:53
• 16Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Chœur dansé. Accourez au-devant d’elle03:13
• 17Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Pas de cinq03:22
• 18Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Récit et Finale. Quand tous nos chevaliers02:25
• 19Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act II: Finale (Suite). La trompette guerrière05:26
• Robert le Diable, Act III:
• 20Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Entracte, Récit et Duo. Du rendez-vous voici l’heureux instant08:41
• 21Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Valse infernale. Encore un de gagné !04:41
• 22Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Récit. Raimbaut ! Raimbaut ! dans ce lieu solitaire07:36
• 23Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Scène. Ô ciel ! le bruit redouble03:45
• 24Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Duo. Mais Alice, qu’as-tu donc ?07:09
• 25Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Trio. Fatal moment, cruel mystère04:15
• 26Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Récit. Qu’a-t-elle donc ?03:15
• 27Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Duo. Si j’aurai ce courage ?05:06
• 28Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Récit et Évocation. Voici donc les débris du monastère antique05:21
• 29Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Procession des Nonnes02:58
• 30Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Récit. Jadis fille, du ciel, aujourd’hui de l’enfer01:14
• 31Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Bacchanale04:12
• 32Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Récit. Voilà ce lieu, témoin d’un terrible mystère !02:27
• 33Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Séduction par le jeu03:42
• 34Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Séduction par l’amour03:07
• 35Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act III: Chœur dansé. Il est à nous.01:24
• Robert le Diable, Act IV:
• 36Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act IV: Entracte et Chœur. Noble et belle, Isabelle est sensible à vos vœux !04:41
• 37Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act IV: Récit et Chœur. Ciel !03:35
• 38Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act IV: Récit. Du magique rameau qui s’abaisse sur eux03:59
• 39Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act IV: Duo. Grand Dieu ! toi qui vois mes alarmes04:27
• 40Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act IV: Cavatine. Robert, toi que j’aime07:02
• 41Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act IV: Duo (suite). Mon cœur s’émeut à cette voix touchante.01:01
• 42Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act IV: Chœur et Strette. Quelle aventure ! est-ce un prestige ?03:11
• Robert le Diable, Act V:
• 43Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act V: Entracte et Chœur. Malheureux ou coupable04:37
• 44Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act V: Scène et Prière. Eh quoi !05:57
• 45Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act V: Récit. Je conçois que ces chants puissent troubler ton âme.02:08
• 46Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act V: Air. Je t’ai trompé, je fus coupable02:28
• 47Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act V: Récit. L’arrêt est prononcé, l’enfer est le plus fort01:33
• 48Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act V: Trio. Que faut-il faire ?10:48
• 49Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Act V: Chœur aérien. Chantez, troupe immortelle02:41
• Total Runtime03:36:42

Info for Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable

French grand-opéra specialist Marc Minkowski has at last recorded Robert le Diable, a jewel of the genre. A triumph at its premiere in November 1831, it captivated contemporaries, and its influence stretched as far as Verdi and Wagner. An imposing international cast brings this repertory cornerstone to life: John Osborn portrays a Robert at once valiant and tender, Amina Edris reveals her full resources in the perilous role of Alice, while idiomatic performances by Nicolas Courjal, Erin Morley and Nico Darmanin complete a line-up offering the most vivid contrasts of tessitura. Against the backdrop of a medieval legend, this fantastical work depicts a confrontation between Good and Evil, pitting against each other a group of protagonists torn between desire and duty. A foundational score of musical Romanticism – performed more than 750 times in the nineteenth century at the Paris Opéra alone – is now gradually emerging from oblivion.

John Osborn, tenor (Robert)
Nicolas Courjal, bass (Bertram)
Amina Edris, soprano (Alice)
Erin Morley, soprano (Isabelle)
Nico Darmanin, tenor (Raimbaut)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
Chœur de l'Opera National de Bordeaux
Marc Minkowski, conductor

Marc Minkowski
plays an active role in promoting classical music both though his exciting career as conductor, and as an artistic administrator. Artistic director of Les Musiciens du Louvre that he founded in 1982, he created the Ré Majeure Festival on Île de Ré (French Atlantic coast) in 2011. General Manager of the Opéra National de Bordeaux from 2016 to 2021, Artistic Director of the Mozartwoche (Mozart Week) in Salzburg from 2013 to 2017, he has been the Artistic Advisor of Kanazawa Orchestra (Japan) from 2018 to 2022. In 2018, he was honored as a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

After studying the bassoon, Marc Minkowski began conducting at an early age, attending maestro Charles Bruck’s academy at the Pierre Monteux Memorial School, Hancock, Maine. At the age of nineteen, he founded Les Musiciens du Louvre, an ensemble that played an active role in the revival of Baroque music. Under his direction, Les Musiciens du Louvre explored both French Baroque music and Handel, before expanding their repertoire to include Mozart, Rossini, Offenbach, Bizet, and Wagner.

Marc Minkowski regularly appears in many of the world's most prestigious opera houses and concert halls. In Paris, he has conducted Idomeneo, Platée, Die Zauberflöte, Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Iphigénie en Tauride, Mireille and Alceste at the Opéra national de Paris; La Belle Hélène, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Carmen and Die Feen at the Théâtre du Châtelet; and La Dame blanche, Pelléas et Mélisande, Cendrillon, Die Fledermaus, Mârouf and Manon at the Opéra Comique. At the Opéra National de Bordeaux, he has conducted Pelléas et Mélisande, La Vie Parisienne, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Manon, Carmen, and Robert le Diable.

He has conducted several operas at the Salzburg Festival (Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Mitridate, Così fan tutte, Lucio Silla, Die Fledermaus), and at Aix-en-Provence festival (L’incoronazione di Poppea, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Idomeneo, Don Giovanni, Les Boréades and Il turco in Italia).

His other international engagements have included: San Francisco (Don Giovanni), Brussels (Les Huguenots, Hamlet, and Il Trovatore at La Monnaie), Zurich, Geneva (Les Huguenots), Valencia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Venice, Moscow (first Pelléas et Mélisande ever on a russian stage at the Stanislavski Theatre, which won many awards), Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna (Hamlet, Fidelio, Le Nozze di figaro and Der Fliegende Holländer at the Theater an der Wien, Alcina and Gluck’s Armide at the Vienna State Opera). Since the 2014-2015 season, he has appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Idomeneo, Traviata, Don Giovanni) and the Teatro alla Scala (Lucio Silla, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and l’Heure espagnole). He conducted Da Ponte Trilogy (director Ivan Alexandre) at the Drottningholm Festival, at the Royal Opera of Versailles Château, in Barcelona (Liceu) and Bordeaux National Opera.

With an active interest in collaborating with a diverse range of directors and choreographers, he has worked with François Abou-Salem, Chistopher Alden, David Alden, Ivan Alexandre, Philippe Béziat, Robert Carsen, Jérôme Deschamps, Richard Eyre, Jürgen Flimm, Joan Font, Achim Freyer, La Fura dels Baus, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Romain Gilbert, Klaus Michael Grüber, Claus Guth, Karl Ernst and Ursel Herrmann, Kasper Holten, Vincent Huguet, Nicholas Hytner, Nicolas Joel, Charles Jude, Waldemar Kamer, Natalia Korczakowska, Günter Krämer, Martin Kušej, Jorge Lavelli, Benjamin Lazar, Macha Makeïeff, Satoshi Miyagi, Sergio Morabito, Mark Morris, David McVicar, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Hans Neuenfels, Adrian Noble, Pascal Paul-Harang, Laurent Pelly, Jean-Louis Pichon, Pier Luigi Pizzi, David Pountney, Olivier Py, Marshall Pynkoski, Emilio Sagi, Karine Saporta, Laura Scozzi, Florent Siaud, Philippe Sireuil, Jacopo Spirei, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Jossi Wieler, Robert Wilson.

Marc Minkowski is also in high demand on the concert platform in standard and modern symphonic repertoire, conducting orchestras such as DSO Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, BBCSO, City of Birmingham SO, Kanazawa Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Mariinsky Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra, SWR Stuttgart, Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, Kanazawa Ensemble, Tours Symphony Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin and del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra. among others. His vast repertoire ranges from Rameau to Adams, and his recorded oeuvre includes all of the Schubert symphonies and Haydn’s London symphonies, Mozart’s 40th and 41st Symphonies, and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique to mention just a few highlights. A pioneer in combining equestrian art with classical music, he has also worked with Bartabas to create several shows.

In his 2022/23 season, his projects include La Juive in Grand Théâtre de Genève, followed by La Périchole at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, then Mitridate directed by Satoshi Miyagi in Berlin Staatsoper, Mozart’s Da Ponte trilogy at the Royal Opera of Versailles Château, followed by Manon at the Liceu in Barcelona. In concert, he conducts the Wiener Symphoniker and Wiener Philharmoniker, the Musikalische Akademie des Nationaltheater-Orchesters Mannheim, the Prague Philharmonia and the Saarländisches Staatsorchester. He will also conduct Handel’s Alcina on tour (Europe) with Les Musiciens du Louvre.

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