CAMEO2042-43 Victorian Opera Michael Balfe's 'Maid of Artois'

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		Victorian Opera *proudly presents the first recording of* Michael Balfe’s The Maid of Artois a romantic 19th Century English Opera in 3 Acts, including ballet music
with Kay Jordan Stephen Brown Rebecca Rudge Jonathan Pugsley John Molloy George Hulbert Adrian Lawson Victorian Opera chorus & orchestra conducted by Philip Mackenzie		2 CD SET with libretto, plus essays on the history and music of the work WITH BOOKLET INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD BONYNGE Victorian Opera have revived this rare operatic delight 150 years after it first played to packed London audiences. The opera (1836) was written by one of Britain’s gifted and lost composers for Maria Malibran. Presented at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, it followed Balfe’s ‘The Siege of Rochelle’, which took London by Storm. The favourable press comments reveal that arias and the overture were encored at the first night performance.