This 2022 release by Palazzetto Bru Zane is aimed at a dual audience: operetta lovers and enthusiasts of the various adaptations of Jules Verne’s inspirations. Obviously The journey to the moon (1875) is above all an object of scenography, spectacle, escape and therefore of video. But the music video market having hardly taken off, whatever the medium, Bru Zane resists getting involved in this field. Like before (Madame Angot’s daughter), it is the operetta that suffers the most. On listening alone, we are a little embarrassed by this dry acoustics, very “small theatre”. But arias and dialogues follow each other well in a wacky plot (there too the images would help not to put a magnifying glass on the “silliness” of certain situations) supported by well-chosen singers: Violette Polchi, Sheva Tehoval, Matthieu Lécroart, Pierre Derhet, Raphael Bremard. This farce, with a very nineteenth-century humore century, is a neat complement to the knowledge of Offenbach, who clearly shows his “musical recipes” from one work to another.
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