Saint-Saëns' Les Barbares

[BerlinExpat]

After Massenet's Le Mage from St. Etienne we can now look forward to another operatic rarity thanks to the support of the Palazzetto Bru Zane. Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Les Barbares is being retrieved from the archives. It's a tragédie lyrique in 3 acts and a prologue to a libretto by Victorien Sardou and Pierre-Barthélémy Gheusi. Concert performances are being given this coming Friday (14th) and Sunday (16th) in the Grand Théâtre Massenet in St. Etienne. A CD production is envisaged but I can't find advance notice of a possible radio transmission, so I guess we'll just have to wait for the Ediciones Singulares product to hear it.

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks for this exciting news, Colin. We really are in the debt of the St Etienne people.