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Opéra Magazine's 'pick of the month' recordings for June, July and August 2025

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Once again, I simply forgot to post anything about June's 'pick of the month' in France's monthly Opéra Magazine . So here are their favourites for June, July and August. In June, they chose the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s release, in one of its usual, lavish CD books with the usual, thorough documentation, of Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys . It features Nicolas Courjal, Kate Aldrich, Cyrille Dubois, Jérôme Boutillier, Christian Helmer, the Hungarian National Choir and Phil., all under Vashegyi, who ‘gives the most convincing reading that could be, the most varied in atmosphere, the most dramatically coherent. He is served by six soloists selected with the greatest care.’  With a little judicious clicking, you can find all the tracks in a playlist on YouTube . Their choice in their July-August double issue is Warner’s 79-CD box of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s complete Lieder and song recordings, celebrating his 100th birthday. There are no surprises: all of the recordings have appeared b...

Offenbach - Les Brigands, at the Paris Opera's Palais Garnier

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ONP Garnier, Thursday June 26 2025 Conductor: Michele Spotti. Production: Barrie Kosky. Sets: Rufus Didwiszus. Costumes: Victoria Behr. Lighting: Ulrich Eh. Choreography: Otto Pichler. Falsacappa: Marcel Beekman. Fiorella: Marie Perbost. Fragoletto: Antoinette Dennefeld. Le Baron de Campo-Tasso: Yann Beuron. Le Chef des carabiniers: Laurent Naouri. Le Duc de Mantoue: Mathias Vidal. Le Comte de Gloria-Cassis: Philippe Talbot. La Princesse de Grenade: Eugénie Joneau. Carmagnola: Leonardo Cortellazzi. Domino: Éric Huchet. Barbavano: Franck Leguérinel. Pietro: Rodolphe Briand. Zerlina: Héloïse Poulet. Fiametta: Clara Guillon. Bianca: Maria Warenberg. La Marquise: Doris Lamprecht. La Duchesse: Helene Schneiderman. Le Précepteur: Luis-Felipe Sousa. Cicinella: Marine Chagnon. Adolphe de Valladolid: Seray Pinar. Antonio: Sandrine Sarroche. Sangrietta/Pipa: Manon Barthélémy. Tortilla: Francesca Lo Bue. Burratina: Cécile L’Heureux. Castagnetta/Pipetta: Corinne Martin. Pizzaiolo: Victorien Bonnet...