Joseph Colaneri, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - John Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles (2021)

In purgatory, the Ghosts of Versailles are waiting impatiently for Beaumarchais' new play: what if he manages to save Marie Antoinette from the scaffold? Here is Count Almaviva, the famous Figaro, but also Rosina and Cherubino, plunged into a thousand twists and turns to make the famous Queen's Necklace disappear, thwarting the spies of the Revolution. But the situation escapes it's creator, and Beaumarchais must himself become involved in the trial of the Queen - with whom he is in love? With assumed brio, Corigliano's music navigates between Mozart and Rossini, and takes the audience into an unexpected opera, all the characters of which are familiar to us! The Ghosts of Versailles are indeed there, and will fulfil their destiny once again… This unique opera, triumphantly premiered in 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, was predestined for to the stage of the Royal Opera of Versailles, for which no doubt Beaumarchais had written this story which goes back in time… Two hundred and fifty years after her marriage in this mythical theatre, will Marie-Antoinette be able to escape her destiny there?

Performer:
Teresa Perrotta - Marie-Antoinette
Jonathan Bryan - Beaumarchais
Spencer Britten - Léon
Brian Wallin - Count Almaviva
Emily Misch - Florestine
Kayla Siembieda - Susanna
Christian Sanders - Patrick Honoré Bégearss
Peter Morgan - Louis XVI
Ben Schaefer - Figaro
Joanna Latini - Rosina
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal
Joseph Colaneri, conductor

Tracklist:
John Corigliano (b.1938)
The Ghosts of Versailles
CD1:
CHAPITRE 1
01. Prologue
CHAPITRE 2
02. “Mon coursier hors d'haleine” (Woman in Hat, Louis XVI, Marquis, Gossips, Aristocrats)
CHAPITRE 3
03. “All powerful Queen of Beauty and ruler of my willing heart” (Beaumarchais, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 4
04. “They are always with me” (Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 5
05. “My wife was always hard to please” (Louis XVI, Aristocrats, Woman in Hat, Marquis, Gossips, Beaumarchais)
CHAPITRE 6
06. “There's Figaro!”–“Oh no! Here we go again!” (Chorus, Figaro, Susanna, Almaviva, Aristocrats)
CHAPITRE 7
07. “They wish they could kill me” (Figaro)
CHAPITRE 8
08. “Bravo, Beaumarchais! Brilliant!” (Louis XVI, Beaumarchais, Marie-Antoinette, Aristocrats)
CHAPITRE 9
09. “Magic! It is Paris… the autumn of ninety-three” (Beaumarchais, Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVI, Almaviva)
CHAPITRE 10
10. “And, with the one million pounds, grant her Majesty a safe refuge in the New World” (Almaviva, Wilhelm, Aristocrats, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 11
11. “Fool! Idiot! Moron! (Bégearss, Wilhelm, Aristocrats, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 12
12. “I can't wait to betray Almaviva” (Bégearss, Florestine)
CHAPITRE 13
13. “Oh, the lion may roar, and the eagle may soar” (Bégearss)
CHAPITRE 14
14. “I remember, master, I remember!” (Wilhelm, Bégearss, Susanna, Figaro, Aristocrats, Woman in Hat)
CHAPITRE 15
15. “Poor Florestine, I pity her” (Marie-Antoinette, Beaumarchais, Louis XVI, Aristocrats)
CHAPITRE 16
16. “New scene. They say New York is a lively town” (Beaumarchais, Louis XVI, Begearss, Rosina, Almaviva)
CHAPITRE 17
17. “Cherubino, Cherubino”–“Now we go back in time” (Rosina, Beaumarchais, Cherubino)
CHAPITRE 18
18. “Look at the green here in the glade” (Beaumarchais, Rosina, Cherubino, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 19
19. “I've had enough! I see what's happening here” (Louis XVI, Beaumarchais, Woman in Hat, Aristocrats, Marie-Antoinette, Marquis, Chorus)
CHAPITRE 20
20. “Selamüaleyküm!” (Pasha, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Léon, Florestine, Almaviva, Rosina, Susanna, Marquis, Beaumarchais, Bégearss)
CHAPITRE 21
21. “His Excellency, the English Ambassador” (Page, English Ambassador, Almaviva, Pasha)
CHAPITRE 22
22. “I am in the valley and you are in the valley” (Samira)
CHAPITRE 23
23. “…Oomri! Limatha hajartani?” (Samira, Figaro, Chorus)
24. “Tafaddaloo marhaben bi koom” – “Shall we?” (Figaro, Chorus, Almaviva, English Ambassador, Bégearss, Wilhelm, Marie-Antoinette, Aristocrats, Florestine, Rosina, Susanna)
CD2:
CHAPITRE 25
01. “Hurry! Hurry! It's late! The second act is beginning!” (Beaumarchais, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Almaviva, Marquis, Susanna, Florestine, Woman in Hat, Rosina)
CHAPITRE 26
02. “Watch. Now Figaro comes back” (Beaumarchais, Louis XVI, Almaviva, Susanna, Figaro,
Marie-Antoinette, Woman in Hat, Marquis)
CHAPITRE 27
03. “Wait! Figaro was supposed to return the necklace!” (Beaumarchais, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 28
04. “Damn that Figaro! He's your husband” (Almaviva, Marquis, Susanna, Woman in Hat, Marie-Antoinette, Florestine, Rosina)
CHAPITRE 29
05. “As summer brings a wistful breeze” (Susanna, Rosina, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 30
06. “And now I must go” – “Bless you, madam, bless you” (Rosina, Susanna, Figaro, Beaumarchais, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 31
07. “What is happening?” (Susanna, Marie-Antoinette, Figaro, Chorus)
CHAPITRE 32
08. “Antoinette, we want your head!” – “Order! Order!” (Chorus, Beaumarchais)
CHAPITRE 33
09. “Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine and Austria” (Marie-Antoinette, Chorus, Beaumarchais, Figaro)
CHAPITRE 34
10. “Monarchy. Revolution. It's all the same to me” “Women of Paris, listen!” (Bégearss, Chorus)
CHAPITRE 35
11. “Welcome, Madeleine, Welcome” (Rosina, Aristocrats, Almaviva, Florestine, Bishop, Léon)
CHAPITRE 36
12. “Remember in the chestnut trees in the gardens of the Tuileries?” (Léon, Florestine, Almaviva, Rosina)
CHAPITRE 37
13. “I hope I'm not too late for your party” (Bégearss, Almaviva, Aristocrats, Rosina, Léon, Florestine, Chorus, Figaro, Beaumarchais, Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVI, Wilhelm, Susanna)
CHAPITRE 38
14. Interlude
CHAPITRE 39
15. “I am very well, my dear Marquis” (Duchess (Woman in Hat), Aristocrats, Marquis, Wilhelm, Chorus, Rosina, Florestine, Susanna, Léon, Almaviva)
CHAPITRE 40
16. “O God of love, o Lord of Light” (Almaviva, Rosina, Florestine, Léon, Susanna, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 41
17. “We are finished” – “Farewell, my faithful friend” (Susanna, Rosina, Almaviva, Beaumarchais, Wilhelm)
CHAPITRE 42
18. “Look, her breathing is diminished” (Florestine, Rosina, Almaviva, Beaumarchais, Figaro, Léon, Wilhelm, Susanna, Bégearss, Duchess, Chorus)
CHAPITRE 43
19. “Goodbye, Figaro. Goodbye Beaumarchais” (Beaumarchais, Marie-Antoinette)
CHAPITRE 44
20. “No, Beaumarchais. It is as it should have been…Once I was a golden bird” (Marie-Antoinette, Beaumarchais)
CHAPITRE 45
21. “Come, Antonia” (Beaumarchais)