To launch the worldwide release of the Opera Rara Classics boxset “Celebrating Offenbach”, Opera Rara and Fidelio Café present a recital of music by Jacques Offenbach performed by the French tenor Loïc Félix and pianist Florent Mourier.

Following acclaimed performances this summer at Glyndebourne and with Opera Rara in Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde, Félix returns to London for an exclusive concert highlighting the career of this inspired composer and recreating the ambiance of the “Vendredis de Jacques” salon promoted by Offenbach himself in the 1870’s. The recital will be guided by insightful commentary from Flora Willson, an acknowledged expert in the music of Jacques Offenbach and 19th century French music and senior lecturer at King’s College London.

Opera Rara Classics 7 CD-boxset Celebrating Offenbach featuring Loic Félix will be released on Friday 17 February and provides an introduction to more than twenty of the composer’s lesser-known works, including the complete studio recordings of Vert-Vert and Robinson Crusoe.

The standard ticket includes the concert followed by a three-course meal perfectly paired to the evening’s musical selections.

PROGRAMME:

Vert-Vert, Overture
Fantasio, ‘Reprenez cet habit mon prince’
La Vie parisienne, ‘Ce que c’est pourtant que la vie’
Maître Peronilla, ‘Pedro le petit bohémien’
La Jolie parfumeuse, ‘Je peins, je crayonne’
Les Deux pêcheurs, ‘Balade de Castilbêta’
La Belle Lurette, ‘Ce fut à Londres’
La Belle Lurette, ‘Oui, je l’avoue avec fierté’
L’Ile de Tulipatan, ‘Couplets de Canard’