COMPANY: Naxos
ARTIST: Dario Salvi
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Adolphe Adam

Product: 747313447879

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Adam: Orfa

Vesela Trichkova, Kalina Hristova, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi

Orfa was Adolphe Adam’s penultimate ballet, with an intriguing scenario based on Nordic mythology. It shares analogies with Hesiod’s Theogony and Wagner’s Ring cycle in depicting the struggle between the older gods (Loki) and younger gods (Odin). Full of archetypal Romantic elements, Orfa was mounted with the lavish stage spectacle for which the Paris Opera was famous, and featured Fanny Cerrito in the title role. Adam’s writing shows increasingly vivid orchestral imagination, drama and tonal colour, with roles for several instrumental soloists. This world premiere recording uses a new edition copied from Adam’s original manuscript score held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.