Donizetti - Imelda D’Lambertazzi
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Label: Opera Rara
Cat No: ORC36
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 3rd March 2008
Contents
Artists
Nicole CabellJames Westman
Massimo Giordano
Frank Lopardo
Brindley Sherratt
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor
Mark ElderWorks
Imelda d'LambertazziArtists
Nicole CabellJames Westman
Massimo Giordano
Frank Lopardo
Brindley Sherratt
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor
Mark ElderAbout
The recording sessions were followed by a concert performance, which had the London critics amazed. For the Daily Telegraph’s Rupert Christiansen, the result was ‘musically muscular and forceful’, while conductor Mark Elder ‘fired [the cast] by his blazing energy and cracking pace.’
Imelda immediately preceded Donizetti’s first masterpiece, Anna Bolena, and was written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in the same year,1830. But its fate was very different. Scholars now take the view that the composer’s very concision in his setting of the Romeo and Juliet–like plot – in which Imelda loves Bonifacio, the son of the faction hated by her father Orlando and brother Lamberto – wrong-footed the Neapolitan public. As The Guardian’s Tim Ashley put it: ‘Donizetti drags us through this tale at breakneck speed, dismantling operatic convention as he goes.’ Now, with Opera Rara’s studio recording of this innovative work, a wider audience can experience one of Donizetti’s most thrilling and dynamic scores.
The 2CD set comes with a lavishly illustrated book including a complete libretto with an English translation. Jeremy Commons gives a detailed account of the story behind the opera and its composition.
This recording is pressed in SACD Hybrid format and is compatible with all CD players.
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