Gretry: L'Épreuve Villageoise
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ANDRE-MODESTE GRETRY
Gretry: L'Épreuve Villageoise
Sophie Junker, Talise Trevigne, Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Thomas Dolié / Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown
[ Naxos Opera / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 November 2016
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L'épreuve villageoise (The Village Trial) - which, in its original form as Théodore et Paulin, was first performed before Marie Antoinette at Versailles - was one of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's most popular works. For a century after its 1784 première it enjoyed huge acclaim across Europe and even travelled to the New World, where it captivated audiences in New York. Grétry was a master of eighteenth-century opéra comique and this crisp and lively farce centres on a clever farmer's daughter and her two competing suitors. Employing divergent stylistic registers - finesse and naiveté, music reminiscent of popular song, and extended ensembles - Grétry fashioned a score of sophisticated wit and huge charm.
