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[email protected] www.naxos.com • www.NaxosMusicGroup.com • www.NaxosMusicLibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | AUGUST 2019 © Pierre Grosbois Michael Spyres and Marion Lebègue 2.110632 Charles GOUNOD (1818–1893) Playing time: 139 minutes La Nonne sanglante Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: PCM Stereo and DTS 5.1 7 47313 56325 8 (‘The Bleeding Nun’) Language: French Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne Subtitles: French, English, German, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) Vannina Santoni, Soprano • Marion Lebègue, Mezzo-soprano No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Michael Spyres, Tenor • accentus • Insula orchestra Price Code: OB Laurence Equilbey, Conductor • David Bobée, Stage Director Key Features: The plot of Gounod’s opera La Nonne sanglante (‘The Bleeding Nun’) ● Gounod’s work is unjustly forgotten after its premiere in 1854. is drawn from Matthew Lewis’s once famous 1796 novel In 2008 the opera was produced for the first time on a German The Monk. The subject is a Gothic melodrama featuring warring stage, and in 2018 had a rare Paris revival at the Opéra Comique, families, two lovers, and the vengeful spectre of the Nun, to which in commemoration of the bicentenary of the composer’s birth, Gounod responds with music that fuses Romanticism with the staged by David Bobée. supernatural on the grandest scale. This ground-breaking production features memorable set pieces enhanced by the stark drama of the ● Opera News wrote about the performance: stage setting and brilliant cinematic lighting effects.