Antônio Carlos Gomes: Lo Schiavo

Svetla Vassileva (Llàra), Massimiliano Pisapia (Americo), Andrea Borghini (Iberè), Elisa Balbo (La contessa di Boissy), Daniele Terenzi (Gianfèra), Dongho Kim (Il conte Rodrigo/Goitacà)

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, John Neschling

Opera lovers will be thrilled with this recording of Lo Schiavo and I for one hope that it will prompt many to discover other worthy pieces that Gomes composed. — MusicWeb International, November 2019 More…

Release Date: 18th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: 57845
Label: Dynamic

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Gomes: Lo Schiavo

Svetla Vassileva (Llàra), Massimiliano Pisapia (Americo), Andrea Borghini (Iberè), Elisa Balbo (La contessa di Boissy), Daniele Terenzi (Gianfèra), Dongho Kim (Il conte Rodrigo/Goitacà)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
John Neschling

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Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes was among the many musicians who travelled to Italy to master the language and the rules of operatic works. He studied in Milan and succeeded in having a few operas staged at Italian venues, before returning to Brazil where he was hailed as the most famous living national composer. Gomes felt compelled to commit his work to the country’s anti-slave cause, which was still legal practice then.

Lo schiavo was therefore conceived as a politically engaged work. However, the issue was rather volatile and the composer had to change the contemporary time setting to a more distant one. In Brazil the opera was a triumph, but elsewhere it failed to gain popularity and soon fell into oblivion. This recording of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari’s production documents the opera’s first performance in modern times and reveals Gomes’ flamboyant richness of melodic creativity, his sound grasp of construction, and a technical mastery of the theatrical mechanisms that are always of the highest level.

‘The most popular title of the entire Brazilian repertoire. The most represented and, perhaps, the most loved one.’ – John Neschling, conductor.

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‘Davide Garattini Raimondi has provided simple but effective stage direction... Alessandro Verazzi’s lighting provides the right touch for dawns and sunsets in the Brazilian forest... Massimiliano Pisapia has a strong center register and a vivid volume with impressive high Cs... Svetla Vassileva handles her difficult arias quite well.’ – ClassicalMusicDaily.com

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November 2019

Opera lovers will be thrilled with this recording of Lo Schiavo and I for one hope that it will prompt many to discover other worthy pieces that Gomes composed.

February 2020

Gomes was clearly a gifted and technically well-equipped composer who possessed genuine inventive gifts… Davide Garattini Raimondi’s staging is broadly traditional, and together with the musical solidity and stylistic assurance of the performance under the conductor John Neschling it gives a good idea of a piece that is unlikely to enter the regular repertoire at this point but which proves well worth encountering.

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