BPZ projects

[Ebubu]

A recapitulative update on Palazetto Bru Zane projects:

Bru Zane also announces in a mailed newsletter :
"The upcoming discographic collaborations of the Palazzetto Bru Zane will contribute to approaching a broad range of Romantic pieces:
-- arias from Italian operas sung in French by Benjamin Bernheim (Deutsche Grammophon),
    (https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9312644--boulevard-des-italiens)
-- César Franck's chamber music (Fuga Libera),
-- Gabriel Fauré's complete songs (Aparté)
-- a recital of French arias sung in Italian, German, Russian and French by Marina Rebeka (Prima Classic).

Other projects announced here and there are :
FRANCK Hulda [Madaras]
OFFENBACH Le Voyage dans la Lune (a new complete and revised version)
OFFENBACH La Vie Parisienne (the video of the Théatre des Champs-Elysées production is already available).
SPONTINI La Vestale [Rousset]
CHERUBINI Les Abencerages [Vashegyi]
MEYERBEER Robert le Diable [Minkowski]  (already recorded in Bordeaux, starring Erin Morley)
GOUNOD Messe de Clovis et FAURE Requiem [Niquet]  https://www.facebook.com/PalazzettoBruZane/posts/5129622860401861
Musiques de Bal et ouvertures Françaises [Roth]
JONCIERES Lancelot (to be recorded in Saint-Etienne this season)
possibly a CD of SAINT-SAENS Frédégonde with a French cast, following the Opéra de Tours production, this season.

No news of 3 projects that were reported or altogether cancelled due to Covid :
MASSENET Bacchus (from the Montpellier Festival -- reported twice)
THOMAS Psyché
HAHN La Carmélite, also reported twice...

[Wheesht]

And apparently no news either of the big recording project of female composers. Back in June 2021, this was announced in the broadcast with, among other works, the Charlotte Sohy symphony. They said more information was to follow in a few months.

[Gareth Vaughan]

And sadly, for me at any rate, no news of further recordings of Benjamin Godard's symphonies:
Tasso - symphonie dramatique, Op. 39, for soloists, chorus & orchestra
Symphonie legendaire, Op. 99, for 3 vocal soloists, female chorus & orchestra
Symphonie-ballet, Op. 60, for orchestra
Aurora - symphonie descriptive, Op. 59, for soloists & orchestra.

I had hoped that, after giving us Dante, they might have essayed Tasso, which was very popular and well thought of in its day.

[Ebubu]

People can always ask Alexandre Dratwicki through his FB page.  He's very cordial and eager to give news when/if he can.

[Maury]

No news of 3 projects that were reported or altogether cancelled due to Covid :
MASSENET Bacchus (from the Montpellier Festival -- reported twice)
THOMAS Psyché
HAHN La Carmélite, also reported twice...

Is there still no news about Massenet's Bacchus if only to note firm cancellation?

[Mark Thomas]

Isn't Bacchus now the only complete Massenet opera not to have been recorded?

[Maury]

I think it was only performed in 1909 and never again. The Act 3 Ballet music is recorded of course. I was just asking if there was even to be a second performance of Bacchus let alone a recording. The situation with Massenet's oeuvre outside of  Manon, Werther and, lagging behind, Thais, is just dreadful for one of the great opera composers. The French have been derelict as well in promoting him. We finally got a commercial recording of Ariane last year.  https://www.ft.com/content/db2049ea-0cc2-4f31-aa5c-b17e559e0007