Duni: Le peintre amoureux de son modèle / Les deux chasseurs et la laitière

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Connaissez-vous Duni ? Martin Wåhlberg and the Orkester Nord take you on a journey to discover the father of opéra-comique through two of his emblematic productions: Les deux chasseurs et la laitière, and Le peintre amoureux de son modèle, recorded here for the first time.
Bringing together musical innovation and comic genius, these two "comedies mixed with ariettes" will be the origin of the transformation of the light genre, which will lead directly… to Mozart and the singspiel. Tenderness or horror often coexists with the humorous or even the absurd, Duni deploying treasures of theatricality and a whole art of misunderstanding, as in Alberti's aria "Chère Laurette" (Le peintre amoureux de son modèle) or the superb final quartet "Ainsi le sort" from Les Deux chasseurs et la laitière.
Martin Wåhlberg and the Orkester Nord, who had already highlighted Mozart's debt to Grétry, continue their fascinating lyrical epic through the treasures of French opera, fully embracing its revolutionary spirit and dramatic strength.