Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have done an immeasurable service to the revival of Baroque opera in modern times; of their superb 1996 set of Niccolò Jommelli's Armida Abbondata for FNAC it can be said that its entry into the recorded repertoire raised the bar on historically informed performances of this kind of material. Now Ambroisie, the label that raised Armida Abbondata itself after a long period of unavailability, has brought us a performance of Rousset and his group in Venus & Adonis, Henry Desmarest's ...
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Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have done an immeasurable service to the revival of Baroque opera in modern times; of their superb 1996 set of Niccolò Jommelli's Armida Abbondata for FNAC it can be said that its entry into the recorded repertoire raised the bar on historically informed performances of this kind of material. Now Ambroisie, the label that raised Armida Abbondata itself after a long period of unavailability, has brought us a performance of Rousset and his group in Venus & Adonis, Henry Desmarest's 1697 opera, in a performance from spring 2006, recorded concurrently with the work's revival at the Opéra Nationale du Lorraine. One might well ask how does it stack up to the Jommelli?Venus & Adonis is a work born in scandal; as the recently widowed Desmarest (or, as Grove has it, "Desmarets") was in preparation of this opera he became involved in a torrid love affair with an 18-year-old singing student who just happened to be the daughter of the principal tax assessor of the region...
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