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Grétry
André Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)
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Biography, List of Works & Bibliography
Performance
| Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729-1817), libretto
by Michel-Jean Sedaine. Le Déserteur (Opéra-comique,
1769). Semi-staged with historically-informed dancers miming the
action. Arias in French, spoken parts in English. Ryan Brown,
Opera Lafayette. Catherine Turocy, New York Baroque Dance
Company. Dominique Labelle, soprano; William Sharp, baritone;
Ann Monoyios, soprano; Tony Boutté, tenor; David Newman,
baritone; Gene Galvin, bass-baritone. Kennedy Center Terrace
Theater, Washington, 29 January 2009, 7:30 pm; Rose Theater,
Lincoln Center, New York, 4 February 2009, 7:30 pm. To be
recorded for release on Naxos.
Details. Seminar with music on opéra-comique: Embassy of
France, 4140 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, Saturday 24 January
2009, 10 am - 1 pm.
Details. |
Recordings
| André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry. Andromaque
(Tragédie lyrique. Paris 1780).
Glossa (2 CDs, April 2010.)
Concert review. Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel.
Andromaque: Judith van Wanroij, soprano; Hermione: Maria-Riccarda
Wesseling, mezzo-soprano; Pyrrhus: Sébastien Guèze, tenor;
Oreste: Tassis Christoyannis, baritone.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| André Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813). La
Caravane du Caïre & Le Jugement de Midas (excerpts).
Ricercar RIC 268 (2 CDs, July 2008).
Details. Reissue of Minkowski's superb 1991 recording of
La Caravane du Caïre combined with Leonhardt's 1980
recording of excerpts from Le Jugement de Midas.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 André
Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), François-Joseph Gossec
(1734-1829) & François Giroust (1738-1799). Grands Motets
pour Louis XVI. K617 181 (1 CD, May 2006).
Performance review. Jean-Claude Malgoire, Les Agrémens,
Choeur de Chambre de Namur. Kareen Durand, soprano; Cyril Auvity,
haute-contre; James Oxley, tenor; Alain Buet, bass. Grétry:
Confitebor (1767); Gossec: Terribilis est locus iste
(1777); Giroust: Benedic anima mea.
DE |
FR |
 Grétry.
Airs et Ballets. Ricercar RIC 234 (1 CD 2004). Sophie
Karthäuser, soprano. Guy Van Waas,
Les Agrémens.
Arias from Cephale et Procris, Les Deux Avares, Anacreon chez
Polycrate, & La Caravane du Caïre.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Grétry.
La Caravane du Caïre ou L'Heureux Esclavage -- Opéra-ballet
(1783). Ricercar (Musique en Wallonie) RIC 100084/85 (2 CDs
1991). Marc Minkowski, Ricercar Academy, Choeur de Chambre de
Namur. Le Pacha: Jules Bastin, bass; Tamorin: Gilles Ragon,
haute-contre; Florestan: Philippe Huttenlocher, baritone; Saint-Phar:
Guy De Mey, tenor; Husca: Vincent Le Texier, bass; Zélime:
Isabelle Poulenard, soprano; Almaïde: Greta de Reyghere,
soprano; Une esclave italienne: Catherine Napoli, soprano; Une
esclave française: Marie-Noëlle De Callataÿ, soprano; Une
esclave allemande: Els Crommen, soprano; Coryphées: Els Crommen
& Marie-Paule Fayt, sopranos; Osmin: John Dur, bass; Furville:
Claude Massoz, bass. Outstanding recitative opera, performance,
and live recording. The first recording of a Grétry opera at
historic pitch, a=392.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Grétry
& Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. La jeunesse de Pierre le Grand
(musical excerpts from Bouilly's Comédie mêlée de chants, 1790).
Cascavelle VEL 3062 (1 CD 2002).
Review. Olivier Opdebeeck, Orchestre de chambre Olivier
Opdebeeck, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, J.-M. Marchal, director.
Le Commissaire du Peuple: François Feroleto; Pierre Le Grand:
Christophe Einhorn; Lefort: Philippe Le Chevalier; Catherine:
Anne-Sophie Schmidt; Georges: Erik Freulon; Alexis: Frédéric
Mazzotta; Caroline: Celine Victores-Benavente; Geneviève:
Valérie Suty; Menchikov: Laurent Malraux; Le Notaire: Philippe
Durot; Maturin: Joël Thalmann.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Grétry
traversant l'Achéron. Overtures and arias by Grétry
transcribed by Dussek, Mozart, Armand-Louis Couperin, Boëly,
Godefroid, Gaubert & Franck. Cyprès (Musique en Wallonie)
CYP3618 (1 CD 2000). Guy Penson, harpsichord, pianoforte, piano;
Sylvia Bernier, piano; Dirk Vandaele, violin; Frédéric Dussenne,
reciter.
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| Gretry. Le Jugement de Midas (excerpts)
(1778). Ricercar RIC 063033 (1 CD 1989, recorded 1980).
Reissued on RIC 232772. Gustav Leonhardt, La Petite Bande.
Choeur de la Chapelle Royale de Paris, director: Philippe
Herreweghe. Apollon & Marsias: John Elwes, tenor; Chloé: Mieke
van der Sluis, soprano; Lise: Françoise Vanhecke, soprano; Mopsa:
Suzanne Gari, soprano; Palémon: Jules Bastin, bass; Pan: Michel
Verschaeve, bass.
UK |
DE |
FR |
Books
| Ronald Lessens. Grétry ou Le triomphe de
l'Opéra-Comique (1741-1813). 268 pages. L'Harmattan (July
2007).
FR |
 David
Charlton. Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-Comique. 371
pages. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Includes detailed
chapters on 24 opéra-comiques by Grétry. The best source I have
found for learning about Grétry and his operas for the
Comédie-Italienne after its merger with the Opéra-Comique. The
stage works performed typically were not comic. They were
distinguished from the operas performed at the Paris Opera by
the anti-competitive terms of the Opéra-Comique's license, which
prohibited sung recitative and the Italian language.
US |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| David Charlton & Mark Ledbury (eds.)
Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797): Theatre, Opera and Art. 256
pages. Ashgate, 2000.
US |
UK |
FR |
CA |
| David Charlton. French Opera 1730-1830:
Meaning and Media. 416 pages. Ashgate, 2000.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| Malcolm Boyd (ed.) Music and the French
Revolution. 328 pages. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
US |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Philippe
Vendrix (ed.) Grétry et l'Europe de l'Opéra-comique. 388
pages. Mardaga (Liège) 1992.
FR |
 Roland
Mortier & Hervé Hasquin (eds.) Fêtes et Musiques
Révolutionnaires: Grétry et Gossec. 213 pages. Etudes sur le
XVIIIe Siécle, volume XVII. Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2000.
FR |
| David Charlton & Nicole Wild.
Répertoire Musical du Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris
(1762-1791). Royal Holloway Opéra-Comique Database Project.
Pierre Mardaga (Sprimont, Belgium). September 2005.
FR |
| David Charlton. French Opera under the
Revolution. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
US |
www.newolde.com/gretry.htm
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André
Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), François-Joseph Gossec
(1734-1829) & François Giroust (1738-1799). Grands Motets
pour Louis XVI. K617 181 (1 CD, May 2006).
Performance review. Jean-Claude Malgoire, Les Agrémens,
Choeur de Chambre de Namur. Kareen Durand, soprano; Cyril Auvity,
haute-contre; James Oxley, tenor; Alain Buet, bass. Grétry:
Confitebor (1767); Gossec: Terribilis est locus iste
(1777); Giroust: Benedic anima mea.
DE |
FR
Grétry.
Airs et Ballets. Ricercar RIC 234 (1 CD 2004). Sophie
Karthäuser, soprano. Guy Van Waas,
Les Agrémens.
Arias from Cephale et Procris, Les Deux Avares, Anacreon chez
Polycrate, & La Caravane du Caïre.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA
Grétry.
La Caravane du Caïre ou L'Heureux Esclavage -- Opéra-ballet
(1783). Ricercar (Musique en Wallonie) RIC 100084/85 (2 CDs
1991). Marc Minkowski, Ricercar Academy, Choeur de Chambre de
Namur. Le Pacha: Jules Bastin, bass; Tamorin: Gilles Ragon,
haute-contre; Florestan: Philippe Huttenlocher, baritone; Saint-Phar:
Guy De Mey, tenor; Husca: Vincent Le Texier, bass; Zélime:
Isabelle Poulenard, soprano; Almaïde: Greta de Reyghere,
soprano; Une esclave italienne: Catherine Napoli, soprano; Une
esclave française: Marie-Noëlle De Callataÿ, soprano; Une
esclave allemande: Els Crommen, soprano; Coryphées: Els Crommen
& Marie-Paule Fayt, sopranos; Osmin: John Dur, bass; Furville:
Claude Massoz, bass. Outstanding recitative opera, performance,
and live recording. The first recording of a Grétry opera at
historic pitch, a=392.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA
Grétry
& Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. La jeunesse de Pierre le Grand
(musical excerpts from Bouilly's Comédie mêlée de chants, 1790).
Cascavelle VEL 3062 (1 CD 2002).
Review. Olivier Opdebeeck, Orchestre de chambre Olivier
Opdebeeck, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, J.-M. Marchal, director.
Le Commissaire du Peuple: François Feroleto; Pierre Le Grand:
Christophe Einhorn; Lefort: Philippe Le Chevalier; Catherine:
Anne-Sophie Schmidt; Georges: Erik Freulon; Alexis: Frédéric
Mazzotta; Caroline: Celine Victores-Benavente; Geneviève:
Valérie Suty; Menchikov: Laurent Malraux; Le Notaire: Philippe
Durot; Maturin: Joël Thalmann.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA
David
Charlton. Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-Comique. 371
pages. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Includes detailed
chapters on 24 opéra-comiques by Grétry. The best source I have
found for learning about Grétry and his operas for the
Comédie-Italienne after its merger with the Opéra-Comique. The
stage works performed typically were not comic. They were
distinguished from the operas performed at the Paris Opera by
the anti-competitive terms of the Opéra-Comique's license, which
prohibited sung recitative and the Italian language.
US |
DE |
FR |
CA
Philippe
Vendrix (ed.) Grétry et l'Europe de l'Opéra-comique. 388
pages. Mardaga (Liège) 1992.
FR
Roland
Mortier & Hervé Hasquin (eds.) Fêtes et Musiques
Révolutionnaires: Grétry et Gossec. 213 pages. Etudes sur le
XVIIIe Siécle, volume XVII. Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2000.
FR