Various - Jacques Offenbach: Pomme d'Api, Sur un volcan

An absolute highlight rounds off the Offenbach Year 2019: two one-act operettas presented in historical performance practice by renowned soloists and the K�lner Akademie on instruments from the epoch. Trafalgar sur un volcan is set in Dublin during the Napoleonic period, while the action of Pomme d�api, it too with its love triangle, takes place in the household of the retiree Rabastens in Paris. He forces his nephew Gustave to renounce his beloved Catherine, nicknamed �Pomme d�Api� (Little Red Apple), a bride beneath his social class. Gustave pretends to agree to this arrangement, but a little later is surprised to find her as the unsuspecting Rabastens� new housekeeper. In other words, this too is a m�nage � trois that will not last in the long run. Both works are full of witty arias, duets, and trios and rise to the absolute heights of Offenbach�s melodic genius, which is magnificently revealed in his brilliant instrumentations!