'Le Timbre d’argent' by Camille Saint-Saëns
‘French opera’ series of the Palazzetto Bru Zane (Bru Zane Label) | 2020 | volume 25
Bilingual CD-book in French and English
2 CDs / book: 163 pages
Lyric drama in 4 acts
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
First premiered on 23 February 1877 at the Théâtre National Lyrique, Paris
Version revised by the composer for the work’s revival
at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in March 1914.
Editions: Choudens
LES SIÈCLES
ACCENTUS
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
with Hélène Guilmette, Jodie Devos, Edgaras Montvidas, Yu Shao, Tassis Christoyannis, Jean-Yves Ravoux, Matthieu Chapuis
Saint-Saëns’s first opera, Le Timbre d’argent - initially composed in 1864 - need not fear comparison with some of the most celebrated works in the nineteenth-century French repertory. It depicts the nightmare of a man whose hallucinations anticipate by twenty years the fantastical apparitions of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. A manipulative diabolical figure gives the hero a silver bell that he must ring to obtain the gold that will enable him to gain the love of the beautiful Circé; in exchange, a supposedly random victim must perish. But first Conrad’s father-in-law, then his best friend are the ones to die. The flashback that resolves the drama already prefigures the cinematic devices of the following century. Le Timbre d’argent is presented here in its final version, dating from 1914, the last of ten revisions over a period of almost fifty years. The dynamic conducting of François-Xavier Roth and the exceptionally precise and fiery performance of the period-instrument orchestra Les Siècles demonstrate that Saint-Saëns was doubtless right to persist in considering the work as one of his masterpieces.
Recorded at the Studio de la Philharmonie de Paris on 26 and 27 June 2017, after the staged performances at the Opéra Comique on 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 June 2017, as part of the 5th Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane Paris
Production: Opéra Comique | Co-production: Palazzetto Bru Zane
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