Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam

Giorgio Caoduro (Tsar), Juan Francisco Gatell (Pietro Flimann), Andrea Concetti (Wambett), Irina Dubrovskaya (Marietta), Aya Wakizono (Carlotta), Pietro Di Bianco (Leforte), Pasquale Scircoli (Alì Mahmed), Alessandro Ravasio (An Officer)

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This production doesn’t feature any stars, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-acted romp. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th May 2018
Catalogue No: 37812
Label: Dynamic

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Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam

Teatro Sociale di Bergamo – Donizetti Festival 2017
Giorgio Caoduro (Tsar), Juan Francisco Gatell (Pietro Flimann), Andrea Concetti (Wambett), Irina Dubrovskaya (Marietta), Aya Wakizono (Carlotta), Pietro Di Bianco (Leforte), Pasquale Scircoli (Alì Mahmed), Alessandro Ravasio (An Officer)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli (conductor) & Davide Ferrario (director)

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Set Francesca Bocca

Costumes Giada Masi

Light Designer Alessandro Andreoli

Having fallen into oblivion following performances in 1839, this attractive, rare opera buffa was revived in 1973 in the Dutch city of Zaanstad (the Saardam of the libretto). It's staged on this recording at Bergamo's Teatro Sociale as part of the Donizetti Festival in a new critical edition made for the Donizetti Foundation by Alberto Sonzogni. The plot opens with Tsar Peter the Great working incognito as a carpenter in Sardaam's shipyard to acquire technical knowledge which he will then take back home. The mayor is convinced of this secretive arrangement, which leads to endless misunderstandings. Conductor Roberto Rizzi Brignoli leads the orchestra of the Donizetti Opera; stage action is in the hands of internationally-renowned cinema director Davide Ferrario. Headed by the renowned bass Andrea Concetti, the cast comprises emerging stars in the belcanto repertoire, including Giorgio Caoduro, Juan Francisco Gatell, Irina Dubrovskaya and Aya Wakizono.

Sung in: Italian

Video Format/ Aspect ratio: NTSC – 16:9

Audio Format: PCM STEREO 2.0 / DTS 5.1 HD Master Audio

SUBTITLES: Ita, Eng, Fre, Ger

Notes: Ita / Eng

Region code: 0 – All regions

Recording place:– Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, Italy

Recording date: November 2017

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Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli (conductor) & Davide Ferrario (director)

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August 2018

This production doesn’t feature any stars, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-acted romp.

July 2018

There are echoes here of Il barbiere di Siviglia, and there is much Rossini in the score, notably the comic ‘ensemble of perplexity’ that concludes the first act. The opera fizzes along under Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, the general frivolity offset by tender music for the lovers. There is one serious aria, ‘Va e la nave’...Giorgio Caoduro sings this magnificently, right down to the embellishments in the second stanza of the cabaletta.

December 2018

The main buffo role is that of the comic mayor, Wambett, delivered in traditional fashion by Andrea Concetti. With her light soprano offering true, clean tone, Irina Dubrovskaya sings Wambett's ward Marietta, who eventually - courtesy of the good-natured Tsar - pairs off with Flimann, her Innamorato.

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