Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – review

Huppert/Radio France Choir/Gatti/Orchestre National de France(Radio France)Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – a "mystery" by Gabriele d'Annunzio for which Debussy wrote the incidental music – caused ructions in its day (1911), thanks to the fact that the text drew parallels between Christianity and the classical cult of Adonis. Nowadays, we're more likely to ponder why two such publicly heterosexual men collaborated on so deeply homoerotic a work. That the title role was written to be performe...

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