{"id":239210,"date":"2010-12-21T18:13:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/cadmus-et-hermoine-the-first-french-opera-from-1673-period-reproduction-by-vincent-dumestre-and-benjamin-lazar\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T18:13:23","slug":"cadmus-et-hermoine-the-first-french-opera-from-1673-period-reproduction-by-vincent-dumestre-and-benjamin-lazar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/cadmus-et-hermoine-the-first-french-opera-from-1673-period-reproduction-by-vincent-dumestre-and-benjamin-lazar.php","title":{"rendered":""Cadmus et Hermoine," The First French Opera from 1673, Period Reproduction by Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just discovered a most amazing cultural artifact: Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar's 2008 resurrection of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Metamorphoses<\/a>-<\/span>inspired \"Cadmus et Hermoine<\/a>,\" the first French opera, which premiered on April 27, 1673 and has long since faded into obscurity.<\/p>

This 21st Century revival of a baroque original is like a magnificent, life-sized toy theatre come to glorious and uncanny life, and functions as more like time-travel than performance, with its lavishly reproduced stage machinery, sets, costumes, makeup, mannered performance style, dance sequences, and completely candle-lit stage all painstakingly based on baroque originals. The music, too, is unforgettable; hauntingly lovely and slightly alien, yet, somehow, utterly familiar at the same time.<\/p>

The complete production (Christmas gift, anyone?) is available in DVD form from Amazon.com<\/a>, which describes it thusly:<\/p>

The event of the year! The team led by conductor Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar has produced the very first French opera, composed in 1673 by Lully with a libretto by Quinault. With reconstructed sets and costumes, this entirely candle-lit production is a landmark in the rediscovery of baroque opera, providing a unique opportunity to discover a musical masterpiece that has fallen into oblivion over the last 3 centuries. Performers include Andre Morsch, Claire Lefilliatre, Arnaud Marzonati, Jean-Francois Lombard, Isabelle Druet, Arnaud Richard, and Camille Poul with the Orchestra, Choir, & Dancers of Le Poeme Harmonique.
Vincent Dumestre directs this performance of Jean-Baptiste Lully's CADMUS ET HERMOINE. Composed in the 17th century, this libretto is a classic example of a musical tragedy and is known as the first French opera.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Click here<\/a> to find out more, or purchase the DVD. Click here<\/a> (highly recommended!) to view many more segments on the Oedipus at Versailles<\/a> You Tube station. You can find out more about the history of the Cadmus et Hermoine opera here<\/a>.<\/p>

Recent related posts: Drottningholm Court Theatre, 1764-1766, Stockholm<\/a><\/p>

Via Le Divan Fumoir Bohémien<\/a><\/p>

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