Meyerbeer: Le Prophete (The Prophet) (Vol. 2)

The Prophet (Le Prophète) is a Stereo & 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD Opera Triple Album.  Featuring the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder and a host of solo artists. Purchase the full Triple Album with a 35% discount.

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Recorded live in concert at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2023, this album sees the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sir Mark Elder join forces with Lyon Opera Chorus, Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, and an incredible cast of soloists to bring to life Meyerbeer’s visionary historical drama, Le Prophète (The Prophet). The opera is based on a true story. In the 1500s, a charismatic innkeeper was converted to Anabaptism by itinerant preachers. After becoming a preacher himself, he came to Münster and established a tyrannical rule, renaming it Jerusalem and proclaiming himself king, before later being killed. Add to this a bride who is a fighter, and the most formidable mother figure ever shown on an operatic stage, and Le prophète is the quintessential grand opera - a spectacular large-scale work that made the Paris Opera the leading stage in Europe, and Meyerbeer a composer admired and envied by the greatest.

An indisputable highlight of the festival was July 15’s concert performance of Le prophète. [...] The evening was broadcast live on Radio France, but the achievement of Elder and everyone else here deserves wider currency and it would be tragic if a recording was not forthcoming” – Opera Magazine “This was certainly a night to remember” – OperaWire

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London Symphony Orchestra Sir Mark Elder, Conductor Lyon Opera Chorus Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône Mediterranean Youth Orchestra John Osborn - Jean de Leyde Elizabeth DeShong - Fidès Mané Galoyan - Berthe James Platt - Zacharie Edwin Crossley-Mercer - Le comte d’Oberthal Guilhem Worms - Mathisen Valerio Contaldo - Jonas Maxime Melnik, Hugo Santos, David Sánchez - Soldats