Meyerbeer: Vasco De Gama / Beermann
Label: CPO Catalog: 777828-2 Format: CD BERCHTOLD; SOROKINA; PRUVOT; YANG; RASANEN; BROMAN; CHOR DER OPER CHEMNITZ; ROBERT-SCHUMANN-PHILHARMONIE; BEERMANNGiacomo Meyerbeer worked on L'Africaine, later Vasco de Gama, from 1837 until shortly before his death in 1864. +Following his passing, an examination of the existing material introduced changes and greatly abridged the work, subsequently staged as L'Africaine. +The modern critical edition by scholar Jürgen Schläder formed the basis of this studio production of the acclaimed 2013 Vasco de Gama production and now for the first time enables a hearing of the composer's true intentions. Price: $100.98 |