Philippe Faucher

Following our successful release of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Vasco da Gama , a production awarded the Echo Prize for the Best Editorial Achievement of 2015, CPO are now present another opera by the same composer. Here Meyerbeer, late in his life, succeeds in producing playful, poetic, and humorously ironic evocations of the world of romantic spirits and fairies. Meyerbeer's setting of the story focusing on the lovers Dinorah and Hoël, separated under mysterious circumstances during a pilgrimage and then happily reunited, mixes lyrical, folkloric, and comical elements lending the music a subtle colour palette all of its own.