Through scholarship, performance and recording, Richard Bonynge has done more than any other modern-day musician to advance the cause of Daniel-Fran?ois-Esprit Auber, the foremost composer of...
Daniel-Fran?ois-Esprit Auber was one of the most famous composers of the 19th century, giving definitive form to the uniquely French genres of grand historical opera and op?ra-comique. His overtures...
From the mid-1820s onwards Auber's career was filled with success. His op?ras-comiques and grands operas won repeated acclaim for their myriad qualities of Parisian elegance. The fifth volume in this...
Although Auber was one of the most popular of 19th-century French composers, his music is seldom revived in the opera house. This series is restoring his overtures and orchestral excerpts from...
The two leading operatic composers of their time were Rossini and Auber, one now f?ted, the other largely overlooked. In 1831 Auber and his long-standing librettist Eug?ne Scribe produced Le Philtre,...