FULL LA COLOMBE (Gounod) Compiegne 1994 Ghyslaine Raphanel, Sylvie François, Jean-Philippe Courtis

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: La Colombe  
• Composer: Gounod Charles  
• Libretto: Jules Barbier, Michel Carré, based on the poem Le Faucon by Jean de la Fontaine    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Theatre Imperial de Compiegne, France  
• Recorded: 1994
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Ghyslaine Raphanel, Sylvie François, Geslot Maitre, Jean-Philippe Courtis, Antoine Normand
• Conductor: Michel Swierczewski  
• Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio Televisione de Cracovie  
• Stage Director: Pierre Jourdan  
• Stage Designer: Gilles Dubernet  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: bongiovanni  
• Format: DVD
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

La Colombe (The Dove) is an opéra comique in two acts by Charles Gounod with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré based on the poem Le Faucon by Jean de la Fontaine. It premiered in a one-act version at the Theater der Stadt in Baden-Baden on 3 August 1860, where it was well received and performed four times. It was revived on 7 June 1866 by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris in an expanded two-act version with additional music by Gounod.

Synopsis
The opera takes place in Florence. Sylvie, jealous of a social rival’s parrot, pays a visit to Horace in hopes of obtaining his prize dove. The love-stricken admirer has fallen on hard times and resolves to roast and eat the bird. A happier ending for the bird than La Fontaine’s is arranged.