Opéra Magazine's pick of the month ('coup de coeur') for June 2024


The June edition of France's Opéra Magazine arrived yesterday. Their pick of the month ('coup de coeur') in the recordings section, with one of their so-called 'Diamant' awards, is Cimarosa's L'Olimpiade (1784), under Christophe Rousset. 'Resurrection of a dazzling score,' they say, and a 'brilliant' way for Château de Versailles Spectacles to salute the Olympic Games (Versailles will host equestrian events and the pentathlon.) 

The whole album appears to be available on YT, in Europe at any rate, if you click through to open the following clip on YT itself:


Another, earlier 18th-century work (1714, revised in 1730), wins a 'Diamant': Destouches' Télémaque et Calypso. This is also a Versailles production, this time under Margaux Blanchard and Sylvain Sartre.

Apparently also available in full on YT:


Interestingly, their third and last 'Diamant' is awarded to the second DVD issue of Laurent Pelly's now classic production of Rameau's Platée at the Paris Opera. Over twenty years later, this new edition still has Minkowski in the pit, but Platée is sung by Lawrence Brownlee:



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