Le Pays-off

It may have taken a hundred years or so, but Joseph Guy Ropartz, Magnard's close friend and a man who seems not to have suffered from the egomania that afflicts so many creative artists, may be coming into his own. Le Pays, his only opera, has bowed in Tours, and the response has been enthusiastic--to judge from this review. I'm not getting my hopes up of its being performed here, but there is a recording.