Lindpaintner I Vespro Siciliano

[mikehopf]

Never mind the grammar... listen to the music. What a wonderful discovery!

I can't wait to hear his Vampire - not Marschner.

[Alan Howe]

Some enjoyable stuff in this opera, but hardly a major discovery. Can't help feeling it's very small (Meyer)beer in a gallon-sized glass...

[eschiss1]

(Meyerbeer's actual last name having been Beer, that joke either works better or less impressively depending on one sees such things ;^) )

[Alan Howe]

The point, though, stands. This is sub-Meyerbeer on a grand scale.

[JimL]

In other words, French sub-Grand Opera?

[Alan Howe]

Forthcoming from Naxos:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/peter-joseph-von-lindpaintner-il-vespro-siciliano/hnum/8333469

[Mark Thomas]

It may be small beer, but it's welcome news.

[Alan Howe]

Oh, I'll be buying it. But listening to it with a small glass in hand...

[eschiss1]

Seems to be the same performers - maybe same recording?? - as uploaded to our downloads board in 2015, btw. Timings of upcoming recording here.

[JimL]

French Middlin' Opera?

[Alan Howe]

This is pretty third-rate stuff. Unfortunately the performance doesn't further its cause: it's adequately sung when spectacular voices are required, the chorus work is untidy and the orchestra is pretty average. No, this isn't even a patch on Meyerbeer. What Schumann, Spohr and Mendelssohn saw in Lindpaintner is anyone's guess.

Sorry: if this sort of opera is going to be revived, it needs the Opera Rara touch, not a recording of a vaguely decent provincial performance. Definitely one for enthusiasts only...

[Alan Howe]

By the way: now that the performance has come out on Naxos, the upload has been removed.