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2020-01-15 09:42:18
From rare Donizetti to Rosina Storchio: 50 years of Opera Rara
[…] in concert performances, included Meyerbeer's last Italian opera Il crociato in Egitto and Donizetti's Maria Padilla. The company's first official disc (the earlier performances also appeared on pirate editions) was Donizetti's Ugo, conte di Parigi issued in 1977. Casts for the recordings have always been impressive with singers such as Janet Price, Yvonne Kenny, Della Jones, Christian du Plessis, Renée Fleming, Jennifer Larmore, Joyce El-Khoury, Angela Meade, Nelly Miricioiu, Vesselina Kasarova, Chris Merritt, Marco Lazzara, Mark Stone, James Westman, Bruce Ford, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Patrizia Ciofi, Carmen Giannattasio, Jose Bros, Joyce El-Khoury, Michael Spyres, Sarah Connolly, Albina Shagimuratova and many more working with the company. Donizetti: L'Ange de Nisida at the Royal Opera House in 2018- David Junghoon Kim, Joyce El-Khoury2018 (c) ROH and Opera Rara. Photo by Russell Duncan Though some Offenbach operettas were issued, the company's early focus was on Italian opera of the bel canto […]
2019-09-21 11:50:00
Giovanni Simone Mayr - Ginevra di Scozia
[…] in idiom – shows real dramatic imagination. But, as even Commons admits, Mayr’s judgement can falter. Some of the invention is just too amiable for the characters’ extreme plights; and too often the tension sags at key moments. Still, there is plenty to enjoy in the elegant and jaunty melodies and the rich orchestration, with its lavish instrumental obbligatos. Mayr’s vocal lines demand virtuoso singing. And except for the pantomime-dame countertenor of Marco Lazzara, the all-Italian cast does the composer proud. Antonino Siragusa is an urbanely reptilian Polinesso, Luca Grassi fields a noble basso cantante as the King, and mezzo Daniela Barcellona makes an intense and imperious Ariodante. Best of all is Elizabeth Vidal as Ginevra, plangent in her lyrical music and soaring into the ionosphere with fearless panache. Despite rough edges in the playing, Tiziano Severini conducts with terrific brio and conviction. Few people today […]
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