Jean-Sébastien Bou, Jodie Devos, Denzil Delaere, La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Bassem Akiki - Boesmans: On purge bébé ! Opera in One Act (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 79:54 minutes | 729 MB
Classical, Opera | Label: Fuga Libera, Official Digital Download
I’d read On purge bébé ! even before I composed Pinocchio. I said to myself: ‘This is a wonderful play… but it’s impossible to turn it into an opera’. And if I say something like that, it means that I’m going to do it — it’s like I’m setting myself a kind of challenge! I liked a lot of things in this play. It’s rather malicious, as it presents an image of a smug, pretentious, and uneducated petty bourgeoisie and their complete dishonesty. I don’t think anyone has ever done an opera based one of Feydeau’s plays — at least, not that I know of. People don’t think of turning Feydeau into an opera…