Composer of the Week

Donald Macleod devotes his final programme on Rameau to the composer's final opera Les Boreades, an astonishing work that, incredibly, had to wait almost 300 years for its first staging. Alphise ...... Barbara Bonney (soprano) Semire ...... Anna-Maria Panzarella (soprano) Une Nymphe ...... Jael Azzaretti (soprano) Abaris ...... Paul Agnew (tenor) Calisis ...... Toby Spence (tenor) Boree ...... Laurent Naouri (baritone) Borilee ...... Stephane Degout (baritone) Apollon ...... Nicolas Rivenq (baritone) Opera National de Paris Les Arts Florissants William Christie (conductor).