Debussy - The Edgar Allan Poe Operas
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Label: Pan Classics
Cat No: PC10342
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 10th June 2016
Contents
Works
The Devil in the Belfry (completed Robert Orledge)The Fall of the House of Usher (completed Robert Orledge)
Artists
William DazeleyEugene Villanueva
Virgil Hartinger
Lin Lin Fan
Michael Dries
Gottinger Symphonie Orchester
Conductor
Christoph-Mathias MuellerWorks
The Devil in the Belfry (completed Robert Orledge)The Fall of the House of Usher (completed Robert Orledge)
Artists
William DazeleyEugene Villanueva
Virgil Hartinger
Lin Lin Fan
Michael Dries
Gottinger Symphonie Orchester
Conductor
Christoph-Mathias MuellerAbout
Plans existed for further operatic projects and Debussy devoted himself intensely to two operas based on texts by Edgar Allen Poe during the last few years of his life which were dominated by ill health. He continued working on The Fall of the House of Usher until shortly before his death and was distraught at not being able to complete this composition. The Devil in the Belfry has only survived in sketch form. The English musicologist Robert Orledge, a renowned expert within the field of French music, reconstructed both operas with great sensitivity to Debussy’s compositional style, augmenting missing passages.
Debussy had promised the New York Metropolitan Opera the premiere of the Poe operas, apparently still believing that he would complete them both. The composer received contractual confirmation that both works would only be performed consecutively on the same evening, meaning that the gloomy melancholy of one work would serve as a counterweight to the mocking humour of the other. This production featuring the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester is therefore a world première: according to Debussy’s wishes, the two operas would have been performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera in this exact juxtaposition.
Cast:
The Fall of the House of Usher (CD1)
- Roderick Usher: William Dazeley
- Roderick's friend: Eugene Villanueva
- Doctor: Virgil Hartinger
- Lady Madeline: Lin Lin Fan
The Devil in the Belfry (CD2)
- Le Bourgmestre: Eugene Villanueva
- Jeannette: Lin Lin Fan
- Le Haut-sonneur: Michael Dries
- Jean: Virgil Hartinger
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