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MOzart / PERGOLèse : Bastien & Bastienne / La servante Maîtresse

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791)
BASTIEN & BASTIENNE K. 50
French translation by H. Gauthier-Villars and G. Hartmann, 1899.

JEAN-BAPTISTE PERGOLÈSE (1710 – 1736)
LA SERVANTE MAÎTRESSE
Version adapted into French by Pierre Baurans, 1754.

Adèle Carlier · Marc Scoffoni · David Tricou

Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal
Gaétan Jarry Conductor

In 1733, Pergolesi created La Serva padrona in Naples, which won over Paris in 1752, becoming the symbol of Italian music. Quickly played in French as La Servante Maîtresse, it inspired Rousseau for his Devin du Village, a parody of which was created under the title Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne. Mozart discovered it in 1768 and composed his Bastien und Bastienne in German. These two masterpieces bound through style and history come to life with colourful plots: lightness, falsehoods and what is comic create delightfully bubbly situations for the tyrannical servant and naive shepherds, from which Pergolesi and Mozart derived the best musical effects.

Recorded from December 18th to 21st 2022 in the Salle Marengo at the Château de Versailles.

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