Les Huguenots discography
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The following is a list of recordings of the opera Les Huguenots, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps), which was premiered in 1836.
Complete recordings
There are 21 complete (or nearly complete) recordings of Les Huguenots, four of them videos.
KEY: conductor/Marguerite/Valentine/Urbain/Raoul/Nevers/Marcel
- Allain/Doria/Rinella/Couderc/Fouché/Cambon/Médus – 1953, incomplete – Pleiade
- Heger/Bak/Cunitz/Köhre/Terkal/Fuchs/Frick – 1955, live in Vienna – Walhall
- Serafin/Pastori/McKnight/Gardino/Lauri-Volpi/Taddei/Zaccaria – 1955, live in Milan – Bongiovanni
- Gavazzeni/Sutherland/Simionato/Cossotto/Corelli/Ganzarolli/Ghiaurov – 1962, live in Milan – Fonit Cetra
- Bonynge/Sutherland/Arroyo/Tourangeau/Vrenios/Cossa/Ghiuselev – 1969 – Decca (see below)
- Giovaninetti/Sills/Gulín/Creed/Poncet/Jamerson/Díaz – 1969, live in New York, incomplete – Celestial Audio
- Märzendorfer/Shane/Tarrés/Scovotti/Gedda/Farrés/Díaz – 1971, live in Vienna, incomplete – Opera d’Oro (see below)
- Savini/Eda-Pierre/Tarrés/Chamorro/Lo Forese/d’Anna/Díaz – 1971, live in Barcelona – Omega
- Andersson/Shane/Galvany/Marsee/di Giuseppe/Cossa/Plishka – 1975, live in New Orleans – Handelman
- Gallois/Lebrun/Clarke/Jones-D/Vanzo/Massard/Roy – 1976, live in Paris – Live Opera Heaven
- Diederich/Raphanel/Pollet/Borst/Leech/Cachemaille/Ghiuselev – 1988, live in Montpellier – Erato (see below)
- Diederich/Raphanel/Miricioiu/Borst/Kunde/Barrard/Macurdy – 1989 video, Montpellier – Encore
- Bonynge/Sutherland/Thane/Johnston/Austin/Pringle/Grant – 1990 video, Sydney – Opus Arte (see below)
- Soltesz/Denning/Peacock/Capasso/Leech/Carlson/Blasius – 1991 video, Berlin – Arthaus (see below)
- Rota/Barbasini/Ricciarelli/Marrocu/Morino/Meoni/Ghiuselev – 1993, live in Novara – Omega
- Allemandi/Davidova/Sánchez-AM/Genaux/Giordani/Chaignaud/Prestia – 1999 VIDEO, Bilbao – Encore
- Queler/Makarina/Stoyanova/Zifchak/Giordani/Boutros/Faria – 2001, live in New York – Premiere Opera
- Palumbo/Rancatore/Raspagliosi/Allegretta/Mok/Bronikowski/Kang – 2002, live in Martina Franca – Dynamic
- Lacombe/Massis/Ducret/Sandis/Ragon/Henry/Jatic – 2005, live in Liège – Opera Lovers
- Botstein/Morley/Deshorties/Lenormand/Spyres/Schroeder/Volpe – 2009, live at Annandale-on-Hudson – ASO (see below)
- Minkowski/Petersen-M/Delunsch/Lezhneva/Cutler/Lapointe/Varnier – 2011, live in Brussels – House of Opera
| Year | Cast (Marguerite, Valentine, Urbain, Raoul, Marcel, Nevers, Saint-Bris) |
Conductor, Opera house and orchestra |
Label[1][2] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Joan Sutherland, Martina Arroyo, Huguette Tourangeau, Anastasios Vrenios, Nicola Ghiuselev, Dominic Cossa, Gabriel Bacquier |
Richard Bonynge, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus |
CD: Decca 430 549-2 |
| 1971 | Rita Shane, Enriqueta Tarres, Jeanette Scovotti, Nicolai Gedda, Gustav Kobbé, Pedro Farres, Dimitri Petkov |
Ernst Märzendorfer, Orchestra & Chorus of the Austrian Radio (Broadcast 17 February, Grosser Konzerthaussaal, Vienna) |
CD: Opera D'Oro 1464 |
| 1988 | Ghyslaine Raphanel, Françoise Pollet, Danièle Borst, Richard Leech, Nicola Ghiuselev, Gilles Cachemaille, Boris Martinovich |
Cyril Diederich, Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier |
CD: Erato 2292-45027-2 |
| 1990 | Joan Sutherland, Amanda Thane, Suzanne Johnston, Anson Austin, Clifford Grant, John Pringle, John Wegner |
Richard Bonynge, Opera Australia |
DVD: Opus Arte OAF 4024D |
| 1991 | Angela Denning, Lucy Peacock, Camille Capasso, Richard Leech, Martin Blasius, Lenus Carlson, Hartmut Welker |
Stefan Soltesz, Deutsche Oper Berlin (German translation by Ignatz Franz Castelli) |
DVD: Arthaus Musik 100 156 |
| 2009 | Alexandra Deshorties, Erin Morley, Marie Lenormand, Michael Spyres, Andrew Schroeder, Peter Volpe, |
Leon Botstein, American Symphony Orchestra |
CD: 2010 American Symphony Orchestra |
Arias
Several late 19th-century singers versed in the genuine Meyerbeerian performance style made acoustic gramophone recordings of arias from Les Huguenots. Many of these early recordings have been remastered and reissued on CD recitals.
