La Princesse de Trébizonde (OEK critical edition)
(Die Prinzessin von Trapezunt) (1869)Libretto by Charles Nuitter and Etienne Tréfeu; original German version by Julius Hopp; new English version by Charles Lamb Kenney (lyrics) & Richard Duployen (dialogue) (F,G,E)
5S,5T,2B,4speaking roles; chorus;
2(I=picc).1.2.1–2.2.1.0–timp.perc(3)–strings
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Bote & Bock
"...a compendium of everything that Offenbach had achieved... a score that races and fizzes like a well-tuned steam train and telling teases about upwardly mobile social ambitions and an infantilised ruling class."
BBC Music Magazine
Virginie Verrez, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Antoinette Dennefeld, Katia Ledoux, Josh Lovell, Christophe Gay, Christophe Mortagne, Loïc Félix / Opera Rara Chorus / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Paul Daniel
Opera Rara ORC63
