Rossini: Otello

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Rossini: Otello

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Naxos

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8660275-76
(8.660275-76)

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2

Release date:

29th March 2010

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0730099027571

Length:

2 hours 28 minutes

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Rossini: Otello

New revised edition after the autograph and contemporary manuscripts by Florian Bauer

Michael Spyres (tenor), Jessica Pratt (soprano), Ugo Guagliardo (bass), Giorgio Trucco (tenor), Geraldine Chauvet (mezzo-soprano) & Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor)

Virtuosi Brunensis & Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir, Cluj, Antonino Fogliani

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First staged in Naples in 1816, seventy years before Verdi’s very different treatment of the same subject, Rossini’s Otello, based on Berio di Salsa’s play rather than that of Shakespeare, makes full use of no fewer than three lead tenors.

In the 19th century the third act won particular praise for the Gondolier’s Song (Nessun maggior dolore) and for the Willow Song (Assisa a’ pie d’un salice), which features some of the composer’s most passionate writing for soprano (Desdemona). The opera concludes with the dramatic and ironic revelation of Jago’s villainy, the forgiveness offered to Otello and his final suicide.

Verdi himself considered Rossini’s Otello a masterpiece

Gioachino Rossini: Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia

playAct I: Sinfonia

playAct I: Viva Otello (Choir)

playAct I: Recitative: Vincemmo, o prodi (Otello, Doge, Jago, Rodrigo)

playAct I: Cavatina: Ah si, per voi gia sento (Otello, Jago, Choir)

playAct I: Recitative: Rodrigo! … (Elmiro, Rodrigo, Jago)

playAct I: Duet: No, non temer, serena (Jago, Rodrigo)

playAct I: Scene and Duettino: Inutile e quel pianto (Emilia, Desdemona)

playAct I: Duet: Vorrei, che il tuo pensiero (Desdemona, Emilia)

playAct I: Recitative: Ma che miro! (Desdemona, Jago, Rodrigo, Elmiro, Emilia)

playAct I: Chorus and Finale I: Santo Imen! te guida Amore (Chorus, Desdemona, Elmiro, Rodrigo, Emilia)

playAct I: Scene: Nel cor d'un padre amante (Elmiro, Rodrigo, Desdemona)

playAct I: Trio: Ti parli l'amore (Rodrigo, Elmiro, Desdemona, Otello, Lucio, Choir)

playAct I: Che brami? (Elmiro, Otello, Desdemona, Rodrigo, Emilia, Lucio, Choir)

playAct I: Finale: Parti, crudel (Rodrigo, Otello, Desdemona, Elmiro, Emilia, Lucio, Choir)

playAct II: Recitative: Lasciami (Desdemona, Rodrigo)

playAct II: Aria: Che ascolto? (Rodrigo)

playAct II: Recitative: M'abbandono! … (Desdemona, Emilia)

playAct II: Scene and Duet: Che feci! … (Otello, Jago)

playAct II: Duet: Non m'inganno: al mio rivale (Otello, Jago)

playAct II: Recitative: E a tanto giunger puote (Otello, Rodrigo)

playAct II: Terzetto: Ah! vieni, nel tuo sangue vendichero le offese (Rodrigo, Otello, Desdemona)

playAct II: Che fiero punto e questo (Rodrigo, Otello, Desdemona)

playAct II: Recitative: Desdemona! Che veggo! (Emilia, Desdemona)

playAct II: Finale: Che smania! ahime! (Desdemona, Maidens, Confidants, Elmiro)

playAct III: Scene, Air, Duet and Finale III: Ah!… Dagli affanni oppressa (Desdemona, Emilia)

playAct III: Danzone del gondiero: Nessun maggior dolore (Gondoliere, Desdemona, Emilia)

playAct III: Canzone del Salice: Assisa a pie d'un salice (Desdemona)

playAct III: M'ascolta … (Desdemona, Emilia)

playAct III: Scene: Eccomi giunto inosservato, e solo (Otello, Desdemona)

playAct III: Duet: Non arrestare il colpo … (Desdemona, Otello)

Gramophone Magazine

August 2010

“Pratt is every bit as fine as von Stade, the voice free, flexible and finely-schooled, her engagement with the role fairly complete, both in the high drama of Act 2 where the opera finally embraces tragedy and in the Willow Song, Prayer and death scene in the superb third act.”

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