Hidden treasures - Adolphe Adam - Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) - Selected highlights

the career of the tenor Jean-Baptiste Chollet. Wagner, they say, later spent a sleepless night trying to get the tunes of Adam's creation out of his head. And yet only Chapelou's joyous "Mes amis, ecoutez l'histoire" still haunts tenor recitals to this very day, while the opera has virtually disappeared from view. Narrative: Adam's libretto is a quite prospective one, offering the composer brilliant contrasts between the rustic and the city world: the postillon of the title (the ...
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