Opera Lafayette/Brown - Philidor:Les Femmes Vengees

Philidor, which had been wavering since the great success of Tom Jones a decade earlier. His op�ra-comique, which foreshadows the plot of Mozart's Cos� fan tutte (Mozart had been in Paris during the first performances of Philidor's work), offers delicious opportunities for mock-indignation and repartee in its arias and ensembles. This recording presents the complete music. Opera Lafayette and Ryan Brown's recording of Philidor's Sancho Pan�a [8.660274] was hailed as a 'witty, authentic interpretation' by the American Record Guide. Is this the French Cos� fan tutte? No one knows for sure whether or not Mozart was present at the early performances of Philidor's Les Femmes veng�es but it's a known fact that he was staying in Paris at the time and there are distinct mirror- reflections in his later work of this earlier comic work. All the music is here; though there are cuts in the spoken dialogue (the complete text with spoken dialogue is available on Naxos' website). This is high-class op�ra-comique, essentially light- hearted, in the last quarter of the eighteenth-century. Important to note that Ryan Brown and his ensemble are world-leaders in the performance of Philidor's music.