Meyerbeer: Grand Opera – Diana Damrau

   in Opera Now (Jun, 2017)
Meyerbeer wasn’t a composer who seemed overly interested in offering his characters moments of great soul-searching. They tend to be placed against momentous events, to which they react or by which they are swept along until they glug beneath the waves. As a young singer, Diana Damrau performed some of the composer’s works and has long cherished a desire to investigate and record more. We can be grateful, as her new disc, Grand Opera, is a valuable addition to the Meyerbeer revival we are currently enjoying. Damrau tackles not just the old coloratura war-horses from Les Huguenots et Le Pardon de Ploërmel (Dinorah), but also delves into the obscurities of …