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Chestnuts roasting in London … to Offenbach’s “Fantasio”
1
Dec
18
2013
Music
brenda rae
fantasio
holiday music
offenbach
opera rara
orchestra of the age of enlightenment
sarah connelly
sir mark elder
by
candace allen
To the classical chestnuts of many a holiday season — Messiahs, Nutcrackers, Oratorios, Bats and Holy Nights — as essential and perennial as those roasting on that open fire, perhaps add the delightful confection that is Offenbach’s Fantasio.