Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns, Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, Jacques Offenbach

Iris Hendrickx

French Opera Arias

Type CD
Label Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC 0044747367026
Catalog number CRC 3670
Release date 02 November 2018

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About the album

This is a program of some of the greatest French Opera Arias. These are all among the most beautiful opera arias for soprano in the entire operatic canon.

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Charles Gounod: Faust: Introduction to Act IV

02:36
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Charles Gounod: Faust: Marguerite, Rec: Elles se cachaient...' Air: Il ne revient pas...'

08:44
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Camille Saint-Saens: Henri VIII Catherine, Rec: 'O cruels souvenirs...' Air: Je ne te reverrai jamais...'

10:36
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Georges Bizet: Carmen Micaela, Rec. 'C'est des contrebandiers...' Air: Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante...'

10:27
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Claude Debussy: L'Enfant Prodigue Prelude

04:14
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Claude Debussy: L'Enfant Prodigue Lia, 'L'annee en vain chasse l'annee...'

08:25
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Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffman Antonia, 'Elle a fui la tourterelle...'

07:03
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Jules Massenet: Thais Meditation from Thais

08:58
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Jules Massenet: Herodiade Salome, Celui dont la parole...Il est doux, il est bon...'

08:22
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Edouard Lalo: Fiesque Leonore, Rec: 'Une femme viendre...' Air: Eloignons ces presages...'

08:26
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Charles Gounod: Romeo Et Juliette Juliette, Rec: 'Dieu quel frisson court dans mes veines...' Air: Amour, ranime mon courage...'

08:47
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Francis Poulenc: Leocadia Amanda, 'Les chemins de l'amour'

05:56

Comments

Pascale

November 9th 2018 13:26

The Belgian soprano Iris Hendrickx is the discovery of the year. I am a huge opera fan and I hadn't heard from her yet. But Iris' debut CD French Opera Arias is for me a revelation of a new lyric voice and also some new repertoire. Iris' full soprano voice is revealing a wide spectrum of emotions, colors and opinions of her characters in this recording. Her youthful vulnerability is deeply moving, especially in her roles as Marguerite and Lia. Her voice is warm and full of melancholy in the lower register and than so shimmering and focussed in the higher parts. Her heartbreaking interpretation of the suffering Catherine in Henri VIII (Saint-Saens) is one of the finest operatic performances I've heard on a "live" recording.