ALBERT ROUSSEL (1869-1937): Le Testament de la Tante Caroline (one-act version (1964) ed. Marcel Mihailovici [1898-1985]).

Description: Premiered the year before his death, one of Roussel’s least-known works is an energetic and imaginative operetta that sits perfectly in the lineage of French musical comedy, with a plot that concerns the conditions attached to the mischievous aunt’s will. The text is inimitably Parisian and Roussel responded with graceful and elegant writing that for some contemporary critics evoked the music of one his orchestral masterpieces, Le Festin de l’araignée. The operetta is heard here in the revision requested by Roussel’s widow which cuts three acts down to one. English synopsis. Marion Gomar (soprano), Marie Lenormand, Lucile Komitès (mezzos), Aurélien Gasse (baritone), Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes; Dylan Corday.