Benjamin Bernheim, Frédéric Chaslin, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna - Boulevard des Italiens: Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi, Spontini, Cherubini, Mascagni (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 257 Mb | Total time: 59:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 1964 | Recorded: 2021
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 257 Mb | Total time: 59:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 1964 | Recorded: 2021
Documenting more than a hundred years of Italian operatic music in France, Benjamin Bernheim’s new album Boulevard des Italiens. Music stretching from Spontini’s La Vestale to Mascagni’s Amica – all sung in French – receives gold-star treatment from Bernheim, a tenor ideally placed to sing this repertoire in his native language. As he explains, “The aim was really to show the history of the French language in opera houses in Paris by way of these Italian composers who brought their pieces there. With the Opéra Garnier at one end, and the Opéra-Comique at the other, the Boulevard des Italiens is where it all happened.”