Summary: "Charpentier: Louise (Acts 1 & 2)" Paul Dukas once wrote of Louise: "The first and last acts are those of a master; the other two are those of an artist; the whole is the work of a man." Louise is an opera that may be known today as a work with only one hit "Depuis le jour" to its credit, but at one time it was a staple at the great opera houses of the world and was reputed to be a favorite of the Metropolitan Opera's Sir Rudolf Bing who could never remember its name and referred to it as "the one with the girls and the sewing machines."Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/G.Charpentier-LouiseCotrubasDomingoBacquierBerbiNpo [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]
