Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto

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Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto

Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto

Edition Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, edited by Franco Rossi and Carlo Stefano Rossi

Director, Set & Costume designer: Pierluigi Pizzi


Michael Maniaci (Armando d'Orville), Patrizia Ciofi (Palmide), Marco Vinco (Aladino), Laura Polverelli (Felicia), Fernando Portari (Adriano di Monfort), Iorio Zennaro (Osmino), Silvia Pasini (Alma), Luca Favaron (Primo Schiavo), Emanuele Pedrini (Secondo Schiavo) & Stefano Gibellato (fortepiano)

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Emmanuel Villaume

Live Recording at Teatro La Fenice, Venezia, January 2007

“Meyerbeer's Il Crociato in Egitto this week opened La Fenice's current season. This production, the first staging in modern times of the last and most famous of the six operas Meyerbeer wrote for Italy early in his career, has already won praise from Milan's Corriere della Sera as ‘the most important musical event of 2007’….. Marco Vinco excelled” International Herald Tribune

“The great performances come from Patrizia Ciofi, exquisite as the put-upon Palmide, and Marco Vinco, marvellously authoritative as Aladino.” The Guardian, 8th April 2010 ****

DVD Video

Region: 0

Format: NTSC

Dynamic - 33549

(DVD Video - 2 discs)

$32.75

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Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto

Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto


Michael Maniaci (Armando d'Orville), Patrizia Ciofi (Palmide), Marco Vinco (Aladino), Laura Polverelli (Felicia), Fernando Portari (Adriano di Monfort), Iorio Zennaro (Osmino), Silvia Pasini (Alma), Luca Favaron (Primo Schiavo), Emanuele Pedrini (Secondo Schiavo) & Stefano Gibellato (fortepiano)

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Emmanuel Villaume

Meyerbeer created his operas as vast, elaborate woven tapestries – showered with detail and colour – the result of years of painstaking work.

This landmark recording of The Crusader in Egypt was made in January 2007 during a performance starring American male soprano Michael Maniaci and a cast of renowned Italian singers at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, where this spectacular grand opera was premièred in 1824.

One of 19th century opera’s long-forgotten major masterpieces, Il crociato was composed at the close of Meyerbeer’s Italian phase shortly before he embarked upon his triumphant career in Paris.

20% off Naxos

Naxos Opera Classics - 8660245-47

(CD - 3 discs)

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Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto

Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto


Ian Platt (Aladino), Yvonne Kenny (Palmide), Diana Montague (Armando d'Orville), Della Jones (Felicia), Bruce Ford (Adriano di Monfort), Linda Kitchen (Alma), Ugo Benelli (Osmino)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry

Opera Rara - ORC10

(CD - 4 discs)

$58.00

(also available to download from $43.25)

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