Les Huguenots discography
The following is a list of recordings of the opera Les Huguenots, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps), which was premiered in 1836. Performances are in the original French unless noted.
Recordings
| Year | Cast (Marguerite, Valentine, Urbain, Raoul, Marcel, Nevers, Saint-Bris) |
Conductor, Opera house and orchestra |
Label[1][2] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Valerie Bak, Maud Cunitz, Eta Köhrer, Karl Terkal, Gottlob Frick, Franz Fuchs, Walter Berry |
Robert Heger Chorus and Orchestra of Austrian Radio |
Walhall Eternity Records CD Cat:WLCD0169 Recording released 2015 Sung in German |
| 1962 | Joan Sutherland, Giulietta Simionato, Fiorenza Cossotto, Franco Corelli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Giorgio Tozzi |
Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan |
Disque Dom Cat:FOR17010 Live performance, recording released 2014 Sung in Italian |
| 1969 | Joan Sutherland Martina Arroyo Huguette Tourangeau Anastasios Vrenios Nicola Ghiuselev Dominic Cossa Gabriel Bacquier |
Richard Bonynge Philharmonia Orchestra Ambrosian Opera Chorus |
CD: Decca Cat: 430 549-2 |
| 1971 | Rita Shane Enriqueta Tarres Jeanette Scovotti Nicolai Gedda Justino Diaz Pedro Farres Dimitri Petkov |
Ernst Märzendorfer Ö1 International orchestra and chorus (broadcast from Konzerthaus, Vienna on 17 Feb) |
CD: Opera D'Oro Cat: 1464 |
| 1988 | Ghyslaine Raphanel Françoise Pollet Danièle Borst Richard Leech Nicola Ghiuselev Gilles Cachemaille Boris Martinovich |
Cyril Diederich Orchestre national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon Opéra national de Montpellier chorus |
CD: Erato Cat: 2292-45027-2 |
| 1990 | Joan Sutherland Amanda Thane Suzanne Johnston Anson Austin Clifford Grant John Pringle John Wegner |
Richard Bonynge Opera Australia orchestra and chorus |
DVD: Opus Arte Cat: OAF 4024D |
| 1991 | Angela Denning Lucy Peacock Camille Capasso Richard Leech Martin Blasius Lenus Carlson Hartmut Welker |
Stefan Soltesz Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra and chorus |
DVD: Arthaus Musik Cat: 100 156 Sung in German |
| 2003 | Desirée Rancatore, Annalisa Raspagliosi, Sara Allegretta, Warren Mok, Soon-Won Kang, Marcin Bronikowski, Luca Grassi |
Renato Palumbo, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Bratislava Chamber Choir |
CD: Dynamic Cat: CDS422 |
| 2009 | Erin Morley, Alexandra Deshorties, Marie Lenormand, Michael Spyres, Peter Volpe, Andrew Schroeder, John Marcus Bindel |
Leon Botstein, American Symphony Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorus (Performed live at the Fisher Center at Bard on 2 August) |
CD: American Symphony Orchestra Cat: ASO093 |
Arias
Several late 19th-century singers versed in the genuine Meyerbeerian performance style made acoustic gramophone recordings of arias from Les Huguenots. Many of these early recordings have been remastered and reissued on CD recitals.
References
- Recordings of Les Huguenots on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- "the Meyerbeer Fan Club site". Archived from the original on 1998-01-19. Retrieved 2014-09-23.
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