Le carnaval de Venise (2022)/ Campra, André

Le carnaval de Venise is a comédie-lyrique in a prologue and three acts by the French composer André Campra. (...). It was first performed in 1699 by the Académie royale de musique in the Salle du Palais-Royal in Paris. Campra dedicated the work to Louis, Grand Dauphin, heir apparent to the French throne, who enjoyed it and had it staged again in February 1711, shortly before his death. In one critic's assessment: "In a magisterial act of conflation, this composer blends the styles of Lully, Lalande, Monteverdi and Cavalli and manages also to foreshadow Handel and Rameau. He dreamt up a multi-hued score, capable of recapturing in Paris both the carnival spirit in general and that of the legendary Venice in particular." (...) A recording with Hervé Niquet conducting Le Concert Spirituel was released in 2011. (...) Gramophone called it "a performance to brighten up the dullest mood"|