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“The set contains some classic things, above all in Callas's several confrontations with her Selim, the wonderfully grave Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, and her ageing husband, Geronio, sung here with all the right hang-dog inflexions by France Calabrese.…it is the special glory of this recording of Il turco in Italia that it allows us to hear Callas at her idiosyncratic best not as some dominating central presence but as part of a finely-honed team.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Rossini: Il Turco in ItaliaRecorded at Rossini Theatre, Pesaro, 15th – 18th August, 2007
Marco Vinco (Selim), Alessandra Marianelli (Fiorilla), Andrea Concetti (Geronio), Filippo Adami (Narciso), Bruno Taddia (Prosdocimo), Elena Belfiore (Zaida), Daniele Zanfardino (Albazar) Prague Chamber Choir & Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Antonello Allemandi Composed in 1814, Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini’s most popular operas. Following the example of his beloved Mozart, Rossini mixes the comic and serious genre in this musical comedy. This is a live recording from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro - the most important opera Festival dedicated to Rossini’s works. “Allemandi conducts with conviction and feeling.” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Ruggero Raimondi (Selim), Cecilia Bartoli (Donna Fiorilla), Paolo Rumetz (Don Geronio), Reinaldo Macias (Don Narciso), Oliver Widmer (Prosdocimo), Judith Schmid (Zaida), Valery Tsarev (Albazar) Chorus, Orchestra and Supernumerary Association of the Opera House Zurich, Franz Welser-Möst Recording Date: 2002
Place of recording: Live from the Zurich Opera House
Running Time: 140 min
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, JP, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, JP, SP
“Bartoli finds pathos as well as broad comedy in Fiorella, the wife with the roving eye in Il turco, and character and voice are magnificently matched. Cesare Lievi and Daniela Schiavone's production - clownish costumes and comic strip furniture - may weary the eye, but turning Rossini and Romani's poet in search of a libretto into the rarely off-stage producer of the show is imaginative and practical. And it's a stroke of near genius to have the prompter on stage as his alter ego wagging an exasperated finger when the principal characters stray from the score. Franz Welser-Möst keeps this wonderful score fizzing along and there's fine playing from the strings and the principal horn and oboe.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2005 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Chailly has recorded the work before, but in the years since he's matured as a Rossini conductor, and the Scala orchestra has this music under its fingers; there's an energy and vitality to this playing that's infectious.
For his earlier recording, Montserrat Caballé was an underpowered Fiorilla; but Cecilia Bartoli is full of fire and mettle here (her 'Sqallido veste bruna' is sensational). Michele Pertusi is a fine Selim whose performance seems to breathe stage experience – it's a characterisation that's as vocally fine as it's theatrically adept. Alessandro Corbelli, reinforcing his credentials as a Rossini singer of flair and panache, is a strongly characterised Geronio. This is a recording that smacks of the theatre, and unlike so many so-called comic operas, has lost nothing in its transfer to disc. Under Chailly's baton it fizzes and crackles like few other sets – recitatives are dispatched with the assurance of native Italian speakers, and with a genuine feeling for the meaning of the text. Decca's recording is beautifully judged and the set makes a fine modern alternative to the now classic (but cut) 1954 recording under Gavazzeni with Maria Callas.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Chailly has recorded the work before, but in the years since he's matured as a Rossini conductor, and the Scala orchestra has this music under its fingers; there's an energy and vitality to this playing that's infectious.
For his earlier recording, Montserrat Caballé was an underpowered Fiorilla; but Cecilia Bartoli is full of fire and mettle here (her 'Sqallido veste bruna' is sensational). Michele Pertusi is a fine Selim whose performance seems to breathe stage experience – it's a characterisation that's as vocally fine as it's theatrically adept. Alessandro Corbelli, reinforcing his credentials as a Rossini singer of flair and panache, is a strongly characterised Geronio. This is a recording that smacks of the theatre, and unlike so many so-called comic operas, has lost nothing in its transfer to disc. Under Chailly's baton it fizzes and crackles like few other sets – recitatives are dispatched with the assurance of native Italian speakers, and with a genuine feeling for the meaning of the text. Decca's recording is beautifully judged and the set makes a fine modern alternative to the now classic (but cut) 1954 recording under Gavazzeni with Maria Callas.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Rossini: Il Turco in ItaliaLive Recording from The Teatro Carlo Felice Di Genova, 2009
Simone Alaimo (Selim), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Fiorilla), Bruno de Simone (Don Geronio), Antonino Siragusa (Don Narciso), Vincenzo Taormina (Prosdocimo), Antonella Nappa (Zaida), Federico Lepre (Albazar) Teatro Carlo Felice, Jonathan Webb (conductor) & Egisto Marcucci (director) Restaged by Elisabetta Courir & Set Design by Emanuele Luzzati. Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini‘s wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini‘s first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini‘s librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perfectly Rossini‘s love of pastiche and parody. He provided a commedia dell‘ arte scenario that gave Rossini plenty of opportunity to mock traditions he had helped to cultivate in the first place. The plot is delightfully salcious and among the many jewels in the score, the duet for Geronio and Selim, in which the Turk tries to persuade the ageing husband to sell his wife to him, is widely considered one of the composer‘s masterpieces. Amongst the singers appearing on this DVD are the highly sought-after Sicilian bass Simone Alaimo, the Greek soprano Myrtò Papatanasiu, who became known to a wider public after her appearance as Violetta in Zeffirelli’s Traviata in Rome in 2007 and the legendary basso-buffo and pupil of Bruscantini, Bruno de Simone. Sound Format: PCM STEREO, DD 5.1 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Picture Format: 16:9 Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, JP FSK: 0 Running Time: 162 mins “...pleasingly stylish and urbane...Jonathan Webb's conducting is as spruce and stylish as the production itself. There is even pleasure to be had from the Overture, with Erica Vitellozzi's brilliantly precise and insightful camerawork helping point up every last detail of Rossini's irrepressible wit.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Rossini: Il Turco in ItaliaLive Recording from The Teatro Carlo Felice Di Genova, 2009
Simone Alaimo (Selim), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Fiorilla), Bruno de Simone (Don Geronio), Antonino Siragusa (Don Narciso), Vincenzo Taormina (Prosdocimo), Antonella Nappa (Zaida), Federico Lepre (Albazar) Teatro Carlo Felice, Jonathan Webb (conductor) & Egisto Marcucci (director) Restaged by Elisabetta Courir & Set Design by Emanuele Luzzati Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini‘s wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini‘s first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini‘s librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perfectly Rossini‘s love of pastiche and parody. He provided a commedia dell‘ arte scenario that gave Rossini plenty of opportunity to mock traditions he had helped to cultivate in the first place. The plot is delightfully salcious and among the many jewels in the score, the duet for Geronio and Selim, in which the Turk tries to persuade the ageing husband to sell his wife to him, is widely considered one of the composer‘s masterpieces. Amongst the singers appearing on this DVD are the highly sought-after Sicilian bass Simone Alaimo, the Greek soprano Myrtò Papatanasiu, who became known to a wider public after her appearance as Violetta in Zeffirelli’s Traviata in Rome in 2007 and the legendary basso-buffo and pupil of Bruscantini, Bruno de Simone. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 7.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Blu-ray Disc: 25 GB (Single Layer) Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, JP Running Time: 162 mins “pleasingly stylish and urbane...Jonathan Webb's conducting is as spruce and stylish as the production itself. There is even pleasure to be had from the Overture, with Erica Vitellozzi's brilliantly precise and insightful camerawork helping point up every last detail of Rossini's irrepressible wit.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Rossini: Il Turco in Italia14th February 1958
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| |  | Rossini: Il Turco in ItaliaFilmed at the Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, Italy, 18 August 2007
Marco Vinco (Selim), Alessandra Marianelli (Fiorilla), Andrea Concetti (Geronio), Filippo Adami (Narciso), Bruno Taddia (Prosdocimo), Elena Belfiore (Zaida), Daniele Zanfardino (Albazar) Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento & Prague Chamber Chorus, Antonello Allemandi Director: Guido De Monticelli Sets: Paolo Bregni Costumes: Santuzza Cali Lighting: Guido Mariani Premièred at La Scala, Milan, in 1814, Il turco in Italia is a madcap ensemble opera with an inspired score that boasts music of both comic genius and extraordinary beauty, inspired perhaps by Mozart’s Così fan tutte, which was produced there immediately before Rossini’s drama buffo. Set in Naples, it spins a crazy tale around a poet who uses the romantic entanglements of the inhabitants with a Turkish prince as inspiration for the plot of his next play. Ultimately, life imitates art as all ends happily, but not before a planned abduction leads to a chaotic situation of mistaken identity … | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Recorded 1954 | | | (also available to download from $16.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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