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title: "Meyerbeer: Le Prophete"
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# Meyerbeer: Le Prophete

**Brand:** lewis, henry
**Price:** € 84.45
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## Description

This recording of Myerbeer's extravagant Le Prophete was taken in London by CBS in 1976. Henry Lewis is the conductor here, and he leads an outstanding cast including Renata Scotto, James McCracken, and Marilyn Horne. The five-act opera with French libretto by Eugene Scribe first premiered in 1849 at the Salle Le Peletier by the Paris Opera. Despite this opera's success in the 19th and early 20th centuries, there have only been a few notable productions since WWII, this recording being one. Gramophone wrote of Marilyn Horne's performance as Fides: "The role calls for Brunnhilde range with an Amneris-type voice: the vocal flexibility and dramatic punch needed are extraordinary. Miss Horne has them all, and she brings out the pathos of the part without sentimentalizing it... The RPO pay much attention to Myerbeer's highly piquant, often quirky orchestration."

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## Customer Reviews

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    Marilyn Horne in Superb Form in Rarely Performed Le Prophète
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2016*

It is a special treat to own this CD which, though not perfect, is very good.  Is it ever possible to have a perfect performance of this extemely demanding grand opera?  I saw Marilyn Horne in the Met's production some 30 or more years ago, and in this recording she lives up to the standard she set in the live performance.  The other star in this recording is Henry Lewis (Ms. Horne's ex-husband) who maintains an excellent pace for this long opera and inspires an outstanding performance from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  I wish I could use similarly laudatory words to describe the performances of Renata Scotto and James McCracken.  The demands on the singers are so great that the odds of finding three great singers to perform these roles in the same performance may be more than we can realistically expect.  Did Sony remaster the original recording?  Seems doubtful - a missed opportunity.

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    FIRST CLASS SINGING--SECOND CLASS SOUND--VERY LITTLE MELODY
  

*by I***F on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2018*

As usual, Marilyn Horne is spectacular--5 stars.  Renata Scotto sounds pretty good in this coloratura role, but she would have sounded a lot better five years earlier--4 stars.  The recorded sound is not so good.  It sounds like it was recorded in a cave with the microphones 20 ft. away from the singers.  Unfortunately, there aren't any other commercially made recordings readily available, so this will have to suffice.  Anyway, musically speaking, the opera itself is a bit of a bore.  Plenty of empty coloratura fireworks, but very little melody.  And, as other reviewers have mentioned, there is no libretto enclosed.  Addendum 4/6/19.  After listening to this opera again, I found it even less interesting musically than the first time and have decided to donate it to charity to make space.

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    is a vast improvement over the pressing and actually allows us to hear the very great performance preserved
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2016*

This is really the only commercial recording of this opera. I had the original LP's which were never top quality pressings (Columbia). Hearing hit son CD, for me, is a vast improvement over the pressing and actually allows us to hear the very great performance preserved. Horne, Scotto, and McCracken bring vocal grandeur and musical excitement to a score the needs to be better known. There is some really great singing here. Hines and the supporting cast also add to ones enjoyment. Lewis's conducting is solid and frames the vocalists well. This is probably one of the best casts that could have been assembled to record this work. Highly recommended.

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