Composers Performers

Jean-Christophe Benoit

Jean-Christophe Benoit (1925–2019)

baritone · France

Bizet, Georges - Opera “Carmen”, WD 31

Britten, Benjamin - “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell), Op. 34

Delibes, Léo - Opera `Lakmé`

Lecocq, Charles - One hundred virgins or the green island, operetta

Massenet, Jules - Opera “Manon”

Massenet, Jules - Opera “Werther”

Messager, André - Bearnezca, operetta

Messager, André - Operetta `Véronique` (1898)

Offenbach, Jacques - Opera Bouffe `La Belle Hélène`

Offenbach, Jacques - Opera `Les contes d`Hoffmann`

Paer, Ferdinando - Opera `Le maître de chapelle, ou Le souper imprévu` (1821)

Poulenc, Francis - Cantata “Le bal masqué”, FP 60

Poulenc, Francis - Chansons villageoises, for voice and orchestra, FP 117b

Poulenc, Francis - Parisiana, FP 157

Poulenc, Francis - “Le Bestiaire, ou Le Cortège d’Orphée” for voice and seven instruments, FP 15b

Poulenc, Francis - “Le Gendarme incompris”, lyric comedy to a text by Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet, FP 20a

Poulenc, Francis - “Main dominée par le coeur”, song, FP 135

Poulenc, Francis - “Rapsodie nègre” for voice and chamber ensemble, FP 3

Prokofiev, Sergey - “Peter and the Wolf”, a symphonic tale for narrator and orchestra, Op. 67

Rameau, Jean-Philippe - Opera “Platée”, RCT 53

Ravel, Maurice - Three Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé for voice and chamber ensemble, M. 64

Ravel, Maurice - Two Songs on Poems by Clément Marot for voice and piano, M. 10, M. 21

Ravel, Maurice - “Histoires naturelles”, five songs for voice and piano, M. 50

Ravel, Maurice - “Les grands vents venus d’outre-mer”, song for voice and piano, M. 48

Ravel, Maurice - “Noël des jouets”, song, M. 47

Ravel, Maurice - “Rêves”, song for voice and piano, M. 79

Ravel, Maurice - “Ronsard à son âme”, song for voice and piano, M. 75

Ravel, Maurice - “Sainte”, song for voice and piano, M. 9

Ravel, Maurice - “Sur l’herbe”, song for voice and piano, M. 53

Rossini, Gioachino - Collection “Péchés de vieillesse”, QR 1-161