Pierre Jourdan, Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne - Adolphe Adam: Le Toréador, ou l'accord parfait (2005)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Français (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 4.16 Gb (DVD5) | 84 min
Classical | Kultur | Sub.: English
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Français (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 4.16 Gb (DVD5) | 84 min
Classical | Kultur | Sub.: English
Adolphe Adam composed more than 70 operas, of which a small handful still enjoy some currency on the French stage; most have been little seen outside of their native land and are seldom recorded, and some have never been revived since their first productions, if they were so given. This may lead some to believe these works must either be hopelessly dated or "too French" to travel. The video company Kultur, however, is helping expand that narrow view of French theater through its L'Opera Français series, which by 2008 was up to eight titles. This series really fills a major void in the operatic repertoire and makes accessible to international audiences the distinctively French form of opéra-comique, a frothy, deliberately silly type of entertainment that is about as close to "popular" culture as high culture ever gets.