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Offer,Rossini: Matilde di Shabran

Annick Massis (Matilde), Juan Diego Florez (Corradino Cuor di Ferro), Bruno Taddia (Raimondo Lopez), Hadar Halevy (Edoardo), Marco Vinco (Aliprando), Bruno de Simone (Isidoro), Chiara Chialli (Contessa d'Arco), Carlo Lepore (Ginardo), Gregory Bonfatti (Egoldo), Lubomir Moravec (Rodrigo)

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Here is treasure indeed: a memorable recording of Rossini's grand, exhilarating, yet down the years too-little-noticed Matilde di Shabran. A comic-heroic romp written for the 1821 Roman carnival... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 14th Aug 2006
Catalogue No: 4757688
Label: Decca
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

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Excerpt, Rossini: Matilde di Shabran

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Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
Riccardo Frizza
Recorded: 2004-08
Recording Venue: Teatro Rossini, Pesaro

Sinfonia

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Rossini: Matilde di Shabran / Act 1

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Bruno De Simone (bass (vocal)), Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Annick Massis (soprano), Carlo Lepore (bass (vocal)), Hadar Halevy (contralto), Ludovir Moravec (tenor), Gregory Bonfatti (tenor), Chiara Chialli (mezzo-soprano), Marco Vinco (bass (vocal))
Prague Chamber Choir, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
Riccardo Frizza
Recorded: 2004-08
Recording Venue: Teatro Rossini, Pesaro

"Zitti: nessun qui v'è"

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"Chi vi guida a queste mura?"

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"Se viene il Cerbero"

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"Vanno via come il vento!"

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"Intanto Armenia 'nfra l'ombrose piante"

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"Ma mo sto castellano"

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"Ah! chitarella mia! dolce lusinga dell'appetito mio"

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"Alma rea! Perché t'involi?"

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"Bella è l'ira in mezzo al campo"

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"Dottor, guarda che ceffo?"

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"Di te no, non mi fido"

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"Prence, Matilde, giovanetta figlia"

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"Eccomi, e ognor lo stesso"

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"Piange il mio ciglio, è vero"

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"D'un tenero padre"

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"Se fra i paterni amplessi"

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"Di capricci, di smorfiette"

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"Ah! di veder già parmi"

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"Si, vezzosa Matilde, a voi confido"

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"Questa è la Dea? Che aria!"

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"Che strepito è mai questo?"

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"Dallo stupore oppresso"

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"Signor, me n'vado o resto?"

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"Ch'io fugga ha già timore"

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"Alla Contessa d'Arco un tale oltraggio!"

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"Ah! Capisco: non parlate"

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"Cara, quel tuo sembiante"

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"Piacere ugual gli dei"

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"Qual fragor? - Signor!"

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"Smarrito, dubbioso, al suono di guerra sospiro"

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"Altezza guardate - Venir io lasciate"

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"Oh come mai quest'anima sfavilla in un momento!"

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Vanne, pugna: trionfante ritorna"

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Rossini: Matilde di Shabran / Act 2

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Bruno Taddia (bass (vocal)), Hadar Halevy (contralto), Annick Massis (soprano), Bruno De Simone (bass (vocal)), Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Carlo Lepore (bass (vocal)), Ludovir Moravec (tenor), Chiara Chialli (mezzo-soprano), Marco Vinco (bass (vocal))
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Prague Chamber Choir
Riccardo Frizza
Recorded: 2004-08
Recording Venue: Teatro Rossini, Pesaro

"Basta nfi a cà: ho scritto meza gloria delle mie guapparie"

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"Di Corradino il nome per ogni suoi rimbomba"

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"Le penne de i poeti so spade assai diverse"

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"Dove, o misero padre, e quando speri più il tuo figlio abbracciar?"

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"Sazia tu fossi alfine revolubil Fortuna!"

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"Ah! perché, perché la morte non ascolta i pianti miei?"

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"Ah! Se ancora un'altra volla el ritorna al dolce amplesso"

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"Pur ti ragiunsi al fin...-Cosa pretendi? - Teco battermi ancor"

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"E palese il tradimento - Mente il foglio, o ad arte è scritto"

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"Perfida invan tu piangi: è finto quell'affanno"

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"Fra quattro armigeri immantimente"

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"Pietà! Mi parli invano. Vendicato sarò"

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"Mandare a morte quella meschina? Che crudelta!"

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"Andate a'vostri alberghi"

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"Da cento smanie, e cento sento straziarmi il cor"

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"Sedotto dall'inganno"

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"O ciel! chi può resistere"

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"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita"

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"Matilde, Ebben?"

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"Ami alfine? E chi non ama?"

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"Non è vero?"

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"Tace la tromba altera"

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Recorded live at the 2004 Pesaro Rossini Festival.

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Orquesta Sinfonica De Galicia with the Prague Chamber Choir, Riccardo Frizza

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2010

Here is treasure indeed: a memorable recording of Rossini's grand, exhilarating, yet down the years too-little-noticed Matilde di Shabran. A comic-heroic romp written for the 1821 Roman carnival but substantially revised for Naples later that same year, the opera is an important staging-post between Rossini's two earlier Roman entertainments, Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola, and their Parisian successors Il viaggio a Reims and Le Comte Ory. The opera soon dropped from the repertory, dogged by travellers' tales of a bizarre plot (a raving misogynist, a mad poet, damsels being thrown off cliffs) and an impossible- to-sing leading role.
This 2004 Pesaro production, based on Jürgen Selk's new Critical Edition, catches Flórez at the peak of his powers. The plot is less complicated than its genesis might suggest. Corradino, a parody tyrant said to loathe women, poets, and all other affronts to his masculinity, resides in a Spanish castle whose welcome notices include such gems as 'He who enters here will have his neck broken'. In Act 1, he is trapped into loving.
With the tyrant tyrannised, Act 2 finds him in a series of even bigger fixes, from which he is eventually rescued by the poet he once threatened to liquidate and the woman he has loathed, loved and tried to kill.
Spectacular as the role of Corradino is, there are no solo arias. This is ensemble opera parexcellence. His spectacular entry – pure Errol Flynn – turns into a quartet. His first meeting with Matilde takes place in the latter half of the Act 1 Quintet. Later, despite Corradino's best efforts to silence young Edoardo, their Act 2 duet remains just that: a duet. The joke fails, of course, if the singer playing Corradino lacks the wherewithal to drive a coach and horses through Rossini's cunningly contrived maze. Flórez is terrific, literally so at times.
Matilde is sister to Isabella and Rosina, albeit a soprano brandishing high C sharps and the occasional top F. Unlike Corradino, she does have a solo aria, the opera's showpiece finale, vividly thrown off by Annick Massis, who is well matched to Flórez histrionically and vocally. The two other leading players are Isidoro, a down-at-heel poet who ends up running the show, and the androgynously charming Edoardo, captive son of Corradino's arch-enemy Don Raimondo. Rossini conceived the roles for the Neapolitan buffo Antonio Parlamagni and his daughter, Annetta, then refined them in the rewrite. In Naples, Isidoro was played (as here, in Neapolitan dialect) by the legendary buffo Carlo Casaccia. Decca's Bruno de Simone is the gamest of Isidoros, Hadar Halevy a mellifluous-sounding Edoardo.
Isidoro bears the brunt of the stretches of secco recitative: eight minutes before the Act 1 finale, a further stretch as the plot thickens midway through Act 2. None of this hangs heavy. This being a distillation of five live theatre performances, the entire cast and fortepiano player Rosetta Cucchi are fully engaged with the drama.
Riccardo Frizza's conducting is fierce and sharp-edged in the modern style. Occasionally one misses that Gui-like turn of the wrist which distinguishes the musician from the martinet but Frizza's marshalling of the all-important ensembles is rarely less than masterly. The recording has the voices well forward, the orchestra a little too much to the rear. If the stereo placings are to be believed, Flórez was always centre-stage: understandable but oddly wearisome.

October 2006

Spectacular as the role of the Corradino is, there are no solo arias. Flórez is terrific… Annick Massis… is well matched to Flórez histrionically and vocally. Riccardo Frizza's conducting is fierce and sharp-edged in the modern style.

May 2014

It's essentially Hobson's Choice for this little-known 1821 opera, which languished unperformed for 150 years - but what a choice it is! Recorded live at the Pesaro Rossini Festival in 2004, it stars Juan Diego Flórez as the 'iron-hearted' warrior Corradino, the punishing role which made him an overnight star in 1996 when he stepped in for an ailing Bruce Ford. Annick Massis is every bit his equal as Matilde.

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