Véronique Gens From: Opera News | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Cohn, Fred | Copyright Metropolitan Opera Guild, Incorporated Nov 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Véronique Gens

"TRAGÉDIENNES" Arias and instrumental selections by Campra, Gluck, Leclair, Lully, de Mondonville and Royer; Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset. Texts and translations. Virgin Classics 46762

This recital opens a window on a hundred years of French opera. Rather than presenting a grab bag of early-music arias, it describes a developing tradition of methods for portraying feminine distress. The disc begins with "Enfin il est en ma puissance," from Lully's Armide (1686),...

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