I started to find the good eighteenth-century French composer within the late Seventies and Reinhart was proper on the forefront of the good rise in consideration given to Rameau that started along with his tricentenary in 1983. His wealthy, agile bass was excellent for the composer’s colourful music, and Reinhart appeared in a lot of essential Rameau recordings: his deliciously villainous Abramane is a specific spotlight of the magical Zoroastre carried out by Sigiwald Kuijken.
I significantly seen how a lot I missed Reinhart when two new recordings of Rameau’s La Temple de la Gloire (to a libretto by Voltaire) had been launched within the mid-2010s. The rating’s hanging first quantity belongs to L’Envie and its singer in each new variations left me flat. Then I pulled out the recording carried out by Jean-Claude Malgoire and Reinhart’s imposing L’Envie had every part (and extra) that the others lacked.
Sadly, the Malgoire Temple has by no means been issued on CD. Their Les Paladins was, although it’s now out-of-print.
Reinhart participated in a 1984 recording of Rameau’s six Cantates Profanes. I owned them on LP however solely 4 had been issued on a single CD. Amongst them was the delightfully rollicking “Les Amants Trahis,” a duo-work generally carried out by soprano and bass, however Reinhart’s associate is the smashing English tenor John Elwes, one other Rameau specialist and the hero of the aforementioned Zoroastre.
Fortunately, a video exists of Reinhart’s commanding Huascar in a piece of the Les Incas de Pérou entrée of Les Indes Galantes.
Simply the opposite day I used to be unhappy to find that I may need missed the prospect to see Reinhart in one in all his nice baroque roles: he carried out Claudio in New York Metropolis Opera’s first manufacturing of Handel’s Agrippina in 2002. Sadly, I opted to attend till its later revival in 2007 (with a distinct bass) when a nervous Nelly Miricioiu changed the initially introduced Ruth Ann Swenson within the title function.
Nevertheless, I found that I did hear Reinhart as soon as—in his solely Met function as one of many guards in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte which he sang eighteen instances between 2006 and 2007.
Reinhart (born in 1950) stays finest identified for his early specialization in baroque music—he recorded Handel’s Tamerlano, Messiah and Saul, participated in a lot of Les Arts Florissants tasks, and is Seneca in two variations on CD of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea–he sang a really extensive number of roles as can found in perusing his fascinating private web site.
It additionally showcases many examples of his distinctive writing which he continues in retirement along with his associate/husband in Paris.
Christopher Corwin
Christopher Corwin started writing for parterre field in 2011 underneath the pen identify “DeCaffarrelli.” His work has additionally appeared in , The New York Occasions, Musical America, The Observer, San Francisco Classical Voice and BAMNotes. Like many, he got here to opera by way of the Saturday Met Opera broadcasts which he started listening to at age 11. His specific enthusiasm is seventeenth and 18th century opera. Since 2015 he has curated the weekly podcast Trove Thursday on parterre field presenting dwell recordings.
