Massenet: Don César de Bazan (complete opera 1888 version)
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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Don César de Bazan (complete opera 1888 version)
Laurent Naouri, Elsa Dreisig, Marion Lebègue / Ensemble Aedes, Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes, Mathieu Romano
[ Naxos / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 10 June 2020
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Don César de Bazan is an opéra-comique with a narrative of dashing Spanish chivalry and romance. Its plot revolves around deception and comedies of reversed identity, with a struggle between true nobility and wicked selfishness maintaining an animated momentum throughout. This was the young Jules Massenet's first full-length opera and yet it is filled with the composer's mature symphonic style, his gift for melody, feeling for the picturesque, and vivacity of rhythm. These distinctive qualities reveal an operatic feast whose time has at last arrived.
