Opulent Opera this Saturday, 7 December 2013

Presented by Michael Dingaan every Saturday evening from 18h00 to 21h00, this programme will delight all opera lovers!
Opulent Opera this Saturday, 7 December 2013

Gaelle Mechaly (Zephyre)

This Saturday, you will be able to enjoy Zephyre by Jean-Philippe Rameau. (Recorded in 2000 in the Westdeutsche Radio Studios, Cologne by WDR / Erato.)

Performers  Gaelle Mechaly (Zephyre), Rebecca Ockenden (Cloris/Flore) and Sophie Decaudaveine (Diane)
Choir  Choeur des Arts Florissants
Orchestra  Capella Coloniensis des WDR
Conductor  William Christie

Zéphire (or Zéphyre) is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau in the form of a one-act acte de ballet. Nothing is known about the date of its composition and in all likelihood it was probably not performed in Rameau's lifetime. The name of its librettist is also unknown but may possibly have been Louis de Cahusac.

Rameau's handwritten score for Zéphire, like that for Nélée et Myrthis, was entitled Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour (The Beautiful Days of Love). (Nélée et Myrthis is similarly a one-act opera-ballet.) Zéphire and Nélée et Myrthis may thus have been two parts of the same work.

The first known performance of Zéphire did not take place until modern times when it was performed on the 15th June 1967 at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England.

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