Opéra Magazine's February 2022 'pick of the month' - Mondonville's Titon et l'Aurore

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After a January break for a special issue devoted to opera festivals, France's Opéra Magazine is back to its usual, monthly format.

Its pick of the month for February 2022, embellished with a 'Diamant' for outstanding achievement, is the DVD/Blu-ray of something many of us will have seen during our lockdown evenings of streamed opera, Mondonville's 'magical' Titon et l'Aurore, recorded in a near-empty Salle Favart in January last year.

'For its first entry in the DVD catalogue,' writes the magazine's critic, 'Mondonville's "pastorale héroïque" is blessed with an edition which is outstanding all round.' 

Reinoud van Mechelen is Titon, Gwendoline Blondeel Aurore, the production is by Basil Twist and Les Arts Florissants are conducted by William Christie, on Naxos.





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