Gretry: Richard Coeur de Lion

Le Concert Spirituel, Niquet, Hervé

CVS 028

Reinoud Van Mechelen; Cécile Achille; Marie Perbost; Geoffroy Buffière; Melody Louledjian; Rémy Mathieu; Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin; François Pardailhé

Recorded and filmed in October 2020, at the Royal Opera of Versailles.

Co-production: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Wahoo, Le Concert Spirituel.

Directed by Julien Condemine - Wahoo production.

An imprisoned King, his knights singing loyalty to him with a famous air "O Richard, O my King" sung in the Royal Opera House by the Bodyguards of Louis XVI in 1789, which would unleash mob justice forcing the royal family to leave the château and never return... To celebrate the 250th anniversary of our theatre, we are pleased to present the return of Grétry's most celebrated Richard Cœur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart) (1784), which during a century was the most famous 18th century French Opéra-comique in Europe. Hervé Niquet and Marshall Pynkoski place the action back under the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Grétry, the Queen's most beloved composer, was a familiar face at the Royal Opera. His Richard is the culmination of a career: here we have an opportunity to put him back into the great History of Versailles, with the first complete production at the Royal Opera of Versailles since... 1789!

CD, DVD

2.11.2020

3770011431335

ICMA 'Nominee' (2020)