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Jules Massenet (1842-1912):
Don Quichotte
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Comedie hroque in five acts
Libretto: Henri Cain, after Le Lorrain
| Don Quichotte |
JOSÉ VAN DAM |
| La belle Dulcine |
TERESA BERGANZA |
| Sancho Pana |
ALAIN FONDARY |
| Pedro |
ISABELLE VERNET |
| Garcias |
MARIE-ANGE TODOROVITCH |
| Rodriquez |
CHRISTIAN PAPIS |
| Juan |
NICOLAS RIVENQ |
| Bandit Chief |
JEAN-CLAUDE BARBIER |
| Bandits |
GERALD THOMAS, THIERRY VINCENT, JEAN-LUC ANTOINE, GERARD BLATT |
| Servants |
ALAIN CARCY, ALBERT FESQUET |
Choeurs et Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Chorus master Pierre Iodice
Repetiteur Janine Reiss
Malcolm Stewart violin
Guy Rogu cello
Robert Gonnella organ
Vicente Pradal guitar
Michel Plasson
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Introduction
Cervantes' nobly deluded knight, in Massenet's gentle take on the classic story, finds an ideal interpreter in the ever-eloquent José van Dam. As Dulcine Teresa Berganza glows with authentically Hispanic sensuality, while Alain Fondary makes a sterling Sancho Panza.
Synopsis
The title role of Don Quichotte was composed for the legendary Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin. Premiered in 1910 and Massenet’s last major success, this subtle, sometimes sentimental opera was based on a play by Jacques Le Lorrain, inspired by Cervantes’ monumental novel Don Quixote.
In Cervantes the lady Dulcinea is a figment of Don Quixote’s imagination, but here, as Dulcinée, she becomes the living, alluring object of his wistful serenade at the end of Act 1, 'Quand apparaissent les étoiles'. She sends him on a quest to retrieve a pearl necklace, stolen by bandits. En route to the bandits’ camp, Sancho Panza, Quichotte’s stalwart squire, bemoans the caprices of women before the knight intrepidly attacks a windmill to witty music worthy of Offenbach. Arriving in the mountains, Don Quichotte is ambushed by the bandits, but his noble prayer 'Seigneur, reçois mon âme’ touches the bandit chief and he leaves with Dulcinée’s necklace. Returning to her in triumph, he asks her to marry him. She declines, and when her friends mock the knight, Sancho Panza defends him staunchly. In the touching final scene, Don Quichotte is near death; looking up at the starry sky and hearing the voice Dulcinée, he dies in Sancho Panza’s arms.
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Compact Disc 1 68.23
ACT ONE
1 Prélude et danse Alza ! Alza ! Alza ! 5.27
(Chorus/Pedro/Garcias/Rodriguez/Juan)
2 Alza… Quand la femme a vingt ans 3.52
(Dulcinée/Chorus/Pedro/Garcias/Rodriguez/Juan)
3 Dulcinée est certes jolie 1.56
(Rodriguez/Juan)
4 Allegresse ! Allegresse ! 5.45
(Chorus/Don Quichotte/Sancho)
5 Ô Dulcinée ! Ah ! Vous allex ameuter alcade 1.17
(Don Quichotte/Sancho)
6 Sérénade Quand apparaissent les etoiles 4.51
(Don Quichotte/Juan/Dulcinée)
7 Ah ! Ah ! C’est vous qui lanciez 2.03
(Dulcinée/Don Quichotte/Juan)
8 Vous êtes, mon seigneur 5.16
(Dulcinée/Pedro/Garcias/Rodriguez/Juan)
9 Elle m’aime et va me revenir 1.10
(Don Quichotte/Dulcinée)
ACT TWO
10 Chanson C’est vers ton amour 6.23
(Don Quichotte/Sancho)
11 Comment peut-on penser du bien 2.58
(Sancho)
12 Regarde ! … Quoi ? Quoi ? 3.59
(Don Quichotte/Sancho)
13 Entr’acte 2.12
(Orchestra)
ACT THREE
14 C’est ici le chemin qui prennent les bandits 6.09
(Don Quichotte/Sancho)
15 Quand apparaissent les etoiles 3.42
(Don Quichotte/Sancho)
16 Ah ! Voir un corps long comme un jour sans pain 3.20
(Bandits/Don Quichotte)
17 Je suis un chevalier errant 6.34
(Don Quichotte/Bandits) |
Compact Disc 2 46.50
ACT FOUR
1 Alors, traîtresse, je n’ai plus rien à expérer 3.29
(Juan/Pedro/Garcias/Rodriguez/Dulcinée)
2 Lorsque le temps d’amour a fui 1.57
(Dulcinée)
3 Par fortune ! Par fortune ! 2.39
(Rodriguez/Dulcinée/Juan/Pedro/Garcias/Chorus)
4 Alza ! Alza ! Ne pensons qu’au plaisir d’aimer 2.02
(Dulcinée)
5 L’aube bientôt blanchira l’horizon ! 1.29
(Chorus/Pedro/Garcias/Rodriguez/Dulcinée)
6 Annonce le grand Don Quichotte 4.05
(Sancho/Servants/Don Quichotte)
7 L’aube bientôt blanchira l’horizon ! 6.54
(Chorus/Don Quichotte/Dulcinée/Sancho/Pedro/Garcias/Rodriguez/Juan)
8 Oui, je souffre votre tristesse 4.26
(Dulcinée/Don Quichotte)
9 Enfin, te revoila ! 2.24
(Rodriguez/Juan/Dulcinée/Sancho)
10 Riez, allez, riez au pauvre idéologue 2.24
(Sancho)
11 Entr’acte 2.50
(Orchestra)
ACT FIVE
12 C’est des contrebandiers le refuge ordinaire... Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante 11.58 |
