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Article: Boieldieu: La Dame Blanche
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- Opera News
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- August 1, 1998
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BOIELDIEU: La Dame Blanche
Massis, Delunsch, Brunet; Blake, Naouri, Fouchecourt; Radio France Chorus, Orchestral Ensemble of Paris, Minkowski. Libretto & translation. EMI 7243-5-56355 (2)
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche held the stage in Paris for more than a century after its premiere, in 1825. Set in Scotland, its ultra-romantic libretto - based by Eugene Scribe on three Walter Scott novels -- tells of an amnesiac heir who regains his inheritance with the help of a devoted young orphan disguised as a ghostly "white lady." The melodious score is highly contagious.
The only previous studio recording, featuring Michel Senechal and equally idiomatic colleagues, was made ...