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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Bel Canto Bully: The Musical Legacy of the Legendary Opera Impresario Domenico Barbaja
Domenico Barbaja (1777–1841) was the legendary impresario who dominated European operatic stages for thirty years. The ruthless mogul was at the very heart of the bel canto era in which beautiful singing, allied to flawless technique, was brought to perfection. This release celebrates his legacy in exploring how Barbaja influenced the way opera was written and performed, by commissioning a series of masterpieces from the greatest composers of the time, such as Rossini, Donizetti and Weber, and staging them in his magnificent opera houses, performed by the most glamorous singers of the age. | 
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Mario Chiappi (Don Pomponio Storione), Gino Orlandini (Monsù Traversen), Eva Czapo (Lisetta), Giuseppe Baratti (Alberto), Giovanni Faverio (Anselmo), Marissa Brumby (Madama La Rose), Gian Carlo Ceccarini (Filippo), Benedetta Pecchioli (Doralice) Radio Svizzera Italiana Orchestra, Radio Svizzera Italiana Chorus, Bruno Rigacci | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Reconstruction of the 1st Act Quintet by the Deutsche Rossini Gesellschaft, edited by Stefano Piana
Marco Cristarella Orestano (Don Pomponio Storion), Judith Gauthier (Lisetta), Giulio Mastrototaro (Filippo), Vincenzo Bruzzaniti (Don Anselmo), Rossella Bevacqua (Doralice), Michael Spyres (Alberto), Maria Soulis (Madama La Rose), Filippo Polinelli (Monsù Traversen) & Ugo Mahieux (harpsichord continuo) Czech Chamber Soloists, Brno & San Pietro a Majella Chorus, Naples, Christopher Franklin Composed between The Barber of Seville (8660027-29) and Cinderella (8660191-92), Rossini’s only Neapolitan comic opera La gazzetta (The Newspaper) was based on a highly popular romantic comedy by Carlo Goldoni, yet has languished until the publication of the new critical edition on which this recording is based. Now revealed as a delicious entertainment satirising the rôle of the media, it involves two young women, their lovers and fathers, who are beset by the arrival of disguised Quakers and a Turkish masquerade all as the result of an advertisement! Synopsis; no libretto “Rossini's fizzing two-act comedy La Gazzetta ("The Newspaper") may be well-made Prosecco rather than vintage Krug but its 2001 revival in a new critical edition gave much pleasure at the Garsington and Pesaro festivals...All three [principals] are strongly cast in this vividly conducted live "Rossini in Wildbad" performance.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 “A completely irresistable performance, from the Wildbad Festival, makes this much more than something just for Rossini completists...It's true that there's much here we've heard elsewhere...but also a good deal of original stuff including a brilliant quarrel duet...Franklin pilots the Czech Chamber Soloists through a fizzing reading, elegant, beautifully paced and tremendously exciting; the ensemble is highly attractive, individually and collectively” Opera Now, September/October 2011 ***** | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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