FULL Ah ! Quel dîner je viens de faire ! (Offenbach) Pau 2018 La compagnie des Turlupins
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Ah ! Quel dîner je viens de faire !
- Composer: Offenbach Jacques
- Libretto: Gérard Cachau Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Espace Dantza, Pau, France, La compagnie des Turlupins
- Recorded: June 2018
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: C. Brun, N. Garriga, F. Mascali, M. Lavoignat, G. Loudet, A. Gaspariau, S. Panza, F. Souby; G. Cachau
- Conductor: Gérard Cachau
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: F. Mascali
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Gerard Ca
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, frsubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The story unfolds in two acts: in the first, the characters show themselves in their best light, while in the second, everything goes into a spin and the masks of propriety fall… with humour. “There is no subliminal message behind, no moral! It’s quirky, it’s just for fun! insists Gerard Cachau. “If there is a message, this is it! agrees François Mascali, faithful stage and music director of Les Turlupins. This time, he left a large musical part to Gérard Cachau, who wrote the libretto of the sung comedy, where situations and songs, drawn from the large pool of tunes from one-act plays by Offenbach, follow one another: the latter, performed by accordionist Rémi Briffault and pianist Stella Juliachs, illustrate the former.
Offenbach will also be on stage, since Gérard Cachau has painted a caricature of it, surrounded by two toonesque creatures, in the slightly crazy spirit of the play. The portrait could well be used again next year: we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Jacques Offenbach and the Turlupins will surely be up to something…