Carlo Rizzi, Britten Sinfonia – Donizetti: L’esule di Roma (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:05:45 minutes | 4,43 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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To celebrate the 225th anniversary of Gaetano Donizetti’s birth, Opera Rara has restored L’esule di Roma (1828), an opera which is considered a milestone in the composer’s illustrious career. Set in Imperial Rome, L’esule di Roma is filled with political conspiracy, romantic intrigue and great sacrifice. Vocal fireworks fly in this opera, punctuating remarkable ensembles and touching arias.Carlo Rizzi, Opera Rara’s Artistic Director, leads a star cast with Nicola Alaimo in one of Donizetti’s finest roles for bass-baritone, soprano Albina Shagimuratova, The Times’ “new queen of bel canto”, and tenor Sergey Romanovsky in the title role.
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Carlo Rizzi – Puccini Symphonic Suites: In New Editions by Carlo Rizzi (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:13 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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In Puccini’s anniversary year, Chief Conductor of Welsh National Opera Carlo Rizzi has created new, purely orchestral versions of some of his most well-known and beloved works. Staying pure and faithful to Puccini’s original orchestration without anything added to ‘cover’ any perceivable lack of vocal line the brilliance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Tosca and other works shine through in this album of world premiere recordings.
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Carlo Rizzi, Britten Sinfonia – Mercadante: Il proscritto (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:03:48 minutes | 2,19 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Set near Edinburgh in the middle of the 17th century, Il Proscritto (1842) weaves a tragic tale of lost love and political treachery during the rule of Oliver Cromwell.
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Carlo Rizzi – Leoncavallo: Zingari (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:23 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Deadly ménage-à-trois: new setting of Leoncavallo’s rarely performed opera Zingari “A better rendition of Leoncavallo’s fiery, sensual opera about a love triangle is hard to imagine,” The Guardian wrote of Carlo Rizzi’s rehearsal of the opera Zingari. Now the setting of the rarely performed work appears both on CD and digitally on the Opera Rara label. Starring in the deadly ménage-à-trois are the much-celebrated Bulgarian star soprano Krassimira Stoyanova, Armenian tenor Arsen Soghomonyan, and as his rival, U.S. baritone Stephen Gaertner.
This passionate love story is based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin from 1827 and was a sensational success when it was first performed in London in 1912. Composed in the style of true-to-life verismo, Leoncavallo’s opera hit the nerve of the time and was performed almost non-stop in London and the USA during that season, before the work soon fell into oblivion.
Under Carlo Rizzi’s baton, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra breathes new life into the richly colored orchestration. In seductive arias and powerful choral passages, the tragic story of the spirited and lighthearted Roma girl Fleana unfolds. On the banks of the Danube, she first turns the head of the nobleman Radu, who joins the Roma camp to be close to his beloved. Then the beauty hears another lover – and fate takes its course.
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Michael Spyres, Carlo Rizzi, Hallé Orchestra – Espoir (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:20 minutes | 674 MB | Genre: Classical
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Hailing from Mansfield, Missouri, Michael Sypres originally set out to pursue a career in musicals before singing opera. He comes from a family of musicians who run an opera company in Springfield MO, and after studying in the US, travelled to Europe to complete his studies in Vienna. He has rapidly established a formidable reputation for his sensitive singing and astonishing vocal range, with leading roles a the Royal Opera House Coven Garden, Lyric Theatre Chicago, Opéra de Paris and Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 2017, he appeared as Don José in Carmen in Paris and sang Enée, opposite Joyce DiDonato in Berlioz’s Les Troyens in Strasbourg.
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