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David: Lalla Roukh
Felicien David, Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette
David: Lalla Roukh
Genre: Classical
 
French opera owes much of its obsession with exoticism to the pivotal figure of Felicien David, a pioneer of 'musical Orientalism'. His opera Lalla Roukh, first performed to huge acclaim in 1862, was the catalyst for the e...  more »

     
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All Artists: Felicien David, Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette, Marianne Fiset, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Nathalie Paulin, Bernard Deletre, Andrew Adelsberger, David Newman
Title: David: Lalla Roukh
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Label: Naxos Opera
Release Date: 3/25/2014
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 730099033879

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French opera owes much of its obsession with exoticism to the pivotal figure of Felicien David, a pioneer of 'musical Orientalism'. His opera Lalla Roukh, first performed to huge acclaim in 1862, was the catalyst for the explosion in operas set in the 'Exotic East'. The fairy-tale plot revolves around an Indian princess who travels to Bukhara (part of modern Uzbekistan) to meet the man to whom she is to be given in marriage. Along the way she falls in love with the minstrel Noureddin who is, in fact, the King of Bukhara in disguise. David's evocative and magical orchestration is harnessed to memorable melodies, including Lalla Roukh's deftly harmonized arias 'Sous le feuillage sombre' and 'O nuit d'amour'.