Meyerbeer: Overtures & Entr'actes from the French Operas New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & Michael Stern

• 1 Robert le Diable: Overture 03:24
• 2 L'Etoile du Nord: Overture 09:08
• 3 Overture 04:48
• 4 Act I: Orgie (Drinking Song) 03:36
• 5 Act II: Entr'acte 02:32
• 6 Act V: Entr'acte 00:39
• 7 Act V: Ballet 02:02
• 8 Overture 04:33
• 9 Act II: Entr'acte 01:33
• 10 Act III: Entr'acte 03:44
• 11 Act V: Entr'acte 01:24
• 12 Act V: Grand scene du mancenillier 01:41
• 13 Overture 13:16
• 14 Act II: Entr'acte 02:55
• 15 Act III: Entr'acte 01:45
• 16 Overture 11:06
• 17 Act IV: Coronation March 03:17
• Total Runtime 01:11:23

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Giacomo Meyerbeer’s eminence as an operatic composer was such that the works he wrote for the Paris Opéra between 1831 and 1865 – Robert le Diable, Les Huguenots, L’Africaine and Le Prophète – were among the most spectacular and popular, well into the twentieth century. These overtures and orchestral pieces illustrate the power of Meyerbeer’s writing, his sense of drama, his orchestral colouring, and his melodic beauty. L’Etoile du Nord and Dinorah, written for the Opéra Comique, are lighter in tone, but notable for their programmatic inventiveness.

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Darrell Ang, conductor

Recorded at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, from 6th to 8th June, 2013
Engineered by Paul McGlashan
Produced by Wayne Laird

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