LULLY: Psyché | Opera News operanews.com/recordings/2023-07-lully-psyche Opera & Oratorio / July 2023 LULLY: Psyché Recording credits Bré, Tauran, Cachet Lefebvre; Auvity, Getchell, Hyon, Wilder, Estèphe, Séguin, Heim; Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset. Texts...
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LULLY: Psyché | Opera News operanews.com/recordings/2023-07-lully-psyche Opera & Oratorio / July 2023 LULLY: Psyché Recording credits Bré, Tauran, Cachet Lefebvre; Auvity, Getchell, Hyon, Wilder, Estèphe, Séguin, Heim; Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset. Texts and translations. Château de Versailles, Collection Opéra Français 16 (2) WHEN THE KING’S MISTRESS believes she’s been mocked, someone gets fired. In 1677, superstar composer and holder of the opera monopoly Jean-Baptiste Lully was forced to stop working with librettist Philippe Quinault, who had unwisely represented the tiff between two of Louis XIV’s mistresses in the opera Isis. In need of a new project, Lully quickly reworked his early Psyché, which had been a collaboration with Molière, commissioning a new text from Thomas Corneille. Conductor Christophe Rousset brings his accustomed authority and sure pacing to a well-cast recording of the revised Psyché from the Château de Versailles. The new opera was hastily assembled, and it
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