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Saint-Saëns

Opera Album Review: Saint-Saëns’s Delightful Skewering of the West’s Fantasies of Japan

A major contribution to the recorded repertory, making clear just how effective Saint-Saëns’s The Yellow Princess could be on stage, its nowadays objectionable title repudiated by its varied and nuanced approach to the evocation of the exotic.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bru Zane, La Princesse jaune, Mélodies persanes, Ralph P. Locke, Saint-Saëns, Yellow Princess

Opera Album Review: Saint-Saëns’s Opera about a Little Silver Bell Works Its Magic

The world-premiere recording of a first rate production of a brilliant, fantastical opera, unstaged and unheard since 1914.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bru Zane, Francois-Xavier Roth, Le timbre d’argent, Ralph P. Locke, Saint-Saëns, The Silver Bell

Opera Album Review: A Renaissance-Toned Opera by Saint-Saëns, Finally (and Finely) Recorded

One of Saint-Saëns’s most important operas, Proserpine, has recently been given its world-premiere recording, and the result is a revelation.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Ediciones Singulares, Flemish Radio Choir, Munich Radio Orchestra, Proserpine, Ralph P. Locke, Saint-Saëns, Véronique Gens

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