Randall Davis asks about Milhaud's "David":

>I have read about it, and would love to hear a recording if one exists.
>And if one exists, where it may be purchased?  I have searched with no
>results.

Unfortunately, you searched well, I think... I put the question to 'my'
French list, whose members include a few French-opera enthusiasts.  They
had also searched in vain.  They have never found any trace of an existing
recording and are aware of none even in French radio archives.  They
think Milhaud's operas are sadly neglected...

To cheer us up a little, I propose Milhaud's "Boeuf sur le toit" in
the high-spirited version for violin and orchestra - "Cinema-Fantaisie"
- which chases the blues as it forever slips into delicious dissonance
and dazzles with its dizzy rhythms, spinning the violin into stunning
counterpoint.  (Honegger wrote the riveting cadenza).  My favourite
version remains Kremer with Chailly and the LSO, but a young French
violinist has just recorded it (Renaud Capucon, 2003) with the equally
young Daniel Harding and the Breme State Philharmonic.

It's not at all operatic I know, sorry, but, just to cheer us up, what
a delicious, well-written, light-hearted romp - irresistible...

Christine