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Patrick Davin, Symphony Orchestra of the Théâtre de la Monnaie - Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers (2002/1997)

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Patrick Davin, Symphony Orchestra of the Théâtre de la Monnaie - Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers (2002/1997)

Patrick Davin, Symphony Orchestra of the Théâtre de la Monnaie - Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers (2002/1997)
PAL 16:9 (720x576) | Français (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 7,30 Gb (DVD9) | 120 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: Francais, English, Deutsch, Espanol

This finely-focused and witty production of Jacques Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers with sets, costumes and lighting by the director Herbert Wernicke, is a visual and musical delight. The burlesque – conducted by Patrick Davin – is situated in a famous fin de siècle café and with a stupendous coup de théâtre the ensemble makes its entry into hell in a steam locomotive, which crashes through the ceiling. Elizabeth Vidal and Alexandru Badea in the main roles are supported energetically by the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and Offenbach’s famous “can-can” is, as ever, an intoxicating highlight.

Patrick Davin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (2009)

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Patrick Davin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (2009)

Patrick Davin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (2009)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 6.00+6.15 Gb (2xDVD9) | 171 min
Classical | Bel Air Classiques | Sub: Francais, English, Deutsch, Español

Offenbach's masterpiece, based on three stories by the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann, is both a three-act opera and a trilogy of taut, individual dramas, all rolled into one.This Geneva production from 2002 features baritone Marc Laho in the tour-de-force triple villain roles, with three different standout sopranos as the tales' three heroines. French producer Olivier Py caused an uproar among Geneva operagoers with a staging of Tales of Hoffmann that features full-frontal male and female nudity and simulated on-stage lesbian and heterosexual sex.Audiences were left "gasping, giggling or reduced to stunned silence" by the production, which interprets the popular opera as an indictment of capitalist society. Py adds several simulated sex acts, including one between the poet Hoffman and the life-sized doll Olympia as she sings her main aria. Soprano Patricia Petitbon is a major tour de force as she sings Olympia wearing only a transparent body stocking in a Venetian bordello.

Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, Patrick Davin & Henri Demarquette - Boëllmann (2021)

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Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, Patrick Davin & Henri Demarquette - Boëllmann (2021)

Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, Patrick Davin & Henri Demarquette - Boëllmann: Symphonie en fa majeur, Variations symphoniques & Quatre pièces brèves (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 243 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 125 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:54:06
Classical | Label: Fuga Libera

Léon Boëllmann’s Suite gothique, with its suave Prière à Notre-Dame and its spirited Toccata, rapidly became a beloved war-horse of organists throughout the world and gained the composer great renown. The Suite’s fame, however, caused other works by Boëllmann — who had been born in the same year as Debussy and who died in the same year as Brahms — to be forgotten. Patrick Davin chose to present Boëllmann’s symphonic works on this recording, the last he was to make before his untimely death.