Conductor Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in a recording session for their disc entitled A Tribute to Pauline Viardot.
Among the numbers included is the great aria “Ô ma lyre immortelle” from Gounod’s nearly-forgotten opera SAPHO. The Swiss-born mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti makes a striking impression with this rarity.
Watch and listen here.
The painting above, by Miguel Carbonell i Selva, dates from 1881.
Oberon's Glade 