Hèctor Parra: Les Bienveillantes

Peter Tantsits, Rachel Harnisch, Günter Papendell, Natascha Petrinsky, David Alegret, Gianluca Zampieri, Choeurs de l'Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Orchestre Symphonique de l'Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Peter Rundel

Les Bienveillantes was commissioned by Opera Ballet Vlaanderen at the suggestion of director Calixto Bieito and is based on the novel by Jonathan Littell, a tough and monumental work in terms of length, theme, scope and depth - a bestseller in France, Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française and Prix Goncourt, translated into over twenty languages - narrated in the first person by Maximilian Aue, a former SS officer.

Together with Klaus Händl, who wrote the libretto, Hèctor Parra has achieved a musical, intellectual and human masterpiece. These 3 CDs from b-records, which open the new collection "Villa Médicis Live", allow us to relive the extraordinary world premiere with a first-class vocal team and the great conductor Peter Rundel.