in Opera Now (May, 2015)
Emmanuel Villaume conducts Bryan Hymel’s debut album, Heroique, leading the PFK-Prague Philharmonia with great style. Like Yoncheva, Hymel has stood in for illustrious colleagues, most notably replacing Jonas Kaufmann in Les Troyens in both London and New York, and taking the title role in Robert le diable at Covent Garden, originally planned for Juan Diego Florez.
His recording reveals him in stunning voice, taking him chronologically through French arias from Rossini’s Guillaume Tell to Rabaud’s Rolande et le mauvais garcon, a curiosity from 1934. Anyone who opens their programme with such a plethora of high Cs is surely confident, and the thrills keep on coming, not least with the …
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