Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà

Svetlana Aksenova (Zazà), Enkelejda Shkosa (Aniade), Dorothea Herbert (Floriana/Madame Dufresne), Juliette Mars (Natalia), Nikolai Schukoff (Milio Dufresne), Vittoria Antonuzzo (Toto Dufresne), Christopher Maltman (Cascart), Tobias Greenhalgh (Bussy), Paul Schweinester (Courtois), Johannes Bamberger...

Loy manages to focus in his surgical, sparing way on the essentials...I just wish Leoncavallo’s 1900 opera was deserving of such a polished staging, as well as the diligent conducting by Stefan... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2022 More…

Release Date: 12th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: 805404
Label: Unitel Editions

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Leoncavallo: Zazà

Svetlana Aksenova, Enkelejda Shkosa (mezzo-soprano), Dorothea Herbert, Juliette Mars, Nikolai Schukoff, Vittoria Antonuzzo, Christopher Maltman (baritone), Tobias Greenhalgh, Paul Schweinester, Johannes Bamberger
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Stefan Soltesz

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With Ruggero Leoncavallo’s rarity Zazá, the Theater an der Wien scored a coup with the grandiose house debutante Svetlana Aksenova in the title role. Christof Loy delivers a striking staging of the Verismo drama and conductor Stefan Soltez spiritedly leads the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien through the highly acclaimed evening. 'It would take a whole newspaper page to praise all the performers appropriately', praises Der Standard. Of particular note is Svetlana Aksenova as Zazá who 'suffers the whole spectrum from intimate affection to raging jealousy and mute despair', Nikolai Schukoff (Milio) 'shows himself as a daredevil and a depressed mourner', Christopher Maltman as Cascart 'leads energetically and touchingly his already lost fight for his beloved.' An evening worth seeing and hearing!

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February 2022

Loy manages to focus in his surgical, sparing way on the essentials...I just wish Leoncavallo’s 1900 opera was deserving of such a polished staging, as well as the diligent conducting by Stefan Soltész and warmly responsive playing of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien.

July 2022

By far the most telling contributions come from Christopher Maltman in the beau rôle of Cascart, Zazà’s protector and former lover, and Enkelejda Shkosa as her alcoholic mama.

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