Les Huguenots discography

The following is a list of recordings of the opera Les Huguenots, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps), which was premiered in 1836. Performances are in the original French unless noted.

## Recordings

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Year  | Cast
(Marguerite, Valentine,
Urbain, Raoul, Marcel,
Nevers, Saint-Bris)  | Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra  | Label[1][2]

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1955  | Valerie Bak,
Maud Cunitz,
Eta Köhrer,
Karl Terkal,
Gottlob Frick,
Franz Fuchs,
Walter Berry | Robert Heger
Chorus and Orchestra of Austrian Radio  | Walhall Eternity Records
CD Cat:WLCD0169
Recording released 2015
Sung in German
1962  | Joan Sutherland,
Giulietta Simionato,
Fiorenza Cossotto,
Franco Corelli,
Nicolai Ghiaurov,
Wladimiro Ganzarolli,
Giorgio Tozzi | Gianandrea Gavazzeni,
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan  | Disque Dom
Cat:FOR17010
Live performance, recording released 2014
Sung in Italian
1969  | Joan Sutherland
Martina Arroyo
Huguette Tourangeau
Anastasios Vrenios
Nicola Ghiuselev
Dominic Cossa
Gabriel Bacquier | Richard Bonynge
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ambrosian Opera Chorus | CD: Decca
Cat: 430 549-2
1971  | Rita Shane
Enriqueta Tarres
Jeanette Scovotti
Nicolai Gedda
Justino Diaz
Pedro Farres
Dimitri Petkov  | Ernst Märzendorfer
Ö1 International orchestra and chorus
(broadcast from Konzerthaus, Vienna on 17 Feb)  | CD: Opera D'Oro
Cat: 1464
1988  | Ghyslaine Raphanel
Françoise Pollet
Danièle Borst
Richard Leech
Nicola Ghiuselev
Gilles Cachemaille
Boris Martinovich  | Cyril Diederich
Orchestre national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Opéra national de Montpellier chorus  | CD: Erato
Cat: 2292-45027-2
1990  | Joan Sutherland
Amanda Thane
Suzanne Johnston
Anson Austin
Clifford Grant
John Pringle
John Wegner  | Richard Bonynge
Opera Australia orchestra and chorus
(Stage director: Lotfi Mansouri)  | DVD: Opus Arte
Cat: OAF 4024D
DVD: Kultur[3]
1991  | Angela Denning
Lucy Peacock
Camille Capasso
Richard Leech
Martin Blasius
Lenus Carlson
Hartmut Welker | Stefan Soltesz
Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra and chorus
(Stage director: John Dew; video director: Brian Large)[4] | Blu-ray/DVD:
Arthaus Musik
Cat: 108 084/100 156
Sung in German
2003  | Desirée Rancatore,
Annalisa Raspagliosi,
Sara Allegretta,
Warren Mok,
Soon-Won Kang,
Marcin Bronikowski,
Luca Grassi  | Renato Palumbo,
Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia,
Bratislava Chamber Choir  | CD: Dynamic
Cat: CDS422
2009  | Erin Morley,
Alexandra Deshorties,
Marie Lenormand,
Michael Spyres,
Peter Volpe,
Andrew Schroeder,
John Marcus Bindel  | Leon Botstein,
American Symphony Orchestra,
Bard Festival Chorus
(Performed live at the Fisher Center at Bard on 2 August)  | CD: American Symphony Orchestra
Cat: ASO093
2018  | Lisette Oropesa,
Ermonela Jaho,
Karine Deshayes,
Yosep Kang,
Nicolas Testé,
Florian Sempey,
Paul Gay | Michele Mariotti,
Paris Opera Orchestra & Chorus
(Stage director: Andreas Kriegenburg)  | HD video:
Paris Opera Play[5][6]

## Arias

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Several late 19th-century singers versed in the genuine Meyerbeerian performance style made acoustic gramophone recordings of arias from Les Huguenots. Many of these early recordings have been remastered and reissued on CD recitals.

## References

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1. ^ Recordings of Les Huguenots on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
2. ^ "the Meyerbeer Fan Club site". Archived from the original on 1998-01-19. Retrieved 2014-09-23.
3. ^ Kultur DVD (2002), OCLC 50299891.
4. ^ 1991 Deutsche Oper Berlin Blu-ray (2013), OCLC 892781028.
5. ^ Les Huguenots (October 2018), Paris Opera Play.
6. ^ Nicolas Blanmont, "Opera Around the World. France. Paris", Opera, January 2019, pp. 44–45: "Even though three and a half hours of music remained, considerable portions of the score had been lost .... Yosep Kang (a late replacement for Bryan Hymel) simply did not have the wherewithal for Raoul".

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