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Meyerbeer: Le prophète review – wild operatic oddity is given a breathless ride
The composer’s 1849 work is one of extremes, but Mark Elder, the LSO and a top cast give as good as they get in this live recording
The British conductor Mark Elder, celebrated for his exhaustive understanding of orchestral repertoire, has just ended his 24-year tenure with the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester. The work in question is Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, in a live recording with the London Symphony Orchestra, from last year’s Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, with exciting soloists and the expert Lyon Opera chorus. The tenor John Osborn as Jean de Leyde, the prophet of the title; mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as his mother; and soprano Mané Galoyan as his fiancee, Berthe, lead a first-rate cast.
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