Donizetti - Rosmonda d’Inghilterra (highlights) | Opera Rara ORR214

Donizetti - Rosmonda d’Inghilterra (highlights)

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Label: Opera Rara

Cat No: ORR214

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 26th April 2010

Contents

Artists

Renee Fleming (soprano)
Bruce Ford
Nelly Miricioiu
Alastair Miles
Diana Montague
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

David Parry

Works

Donizetti, Gaetano

Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (highlights)

Artists

Renee Fleming (soprano)
Bruce Ford
Nelly Miricioiu
Alastair Miles
Diana Montague
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

David Parry

About

As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, Opera Rara proudly presents this re-release of highlights from the first complete opera recording ever made by world-famous soprano and Opera Rara Patron, Renée Fleming.

One of Opera Rara’s historical strengths has been its enthusiasm to discover, nurture and promote bright young singers. One of the beautiful lyric soprano voices the late Patric Schmid took under his wing belonged to American singer, Renée Fleming, who went on to become one of the most celebrated sopranos of our time. And also one of the best-selling!

Rosmonda d’Inghilterra was a work of Donizetti’s artistic maturity, produced inbetween Lucrezia Borgia (Milan, 1833) and Maria Stuarda (intended for Naples in 1834, but in fact premiered in Milan in 1835), with a libretto by Felice Romani, the leading practitioner of the genre in Italy at that time.

Despite the opera’s rarity, its qualities as a work remain exceptional. The plot is derived from English history (suitably fictionalised) and centres on the bitter hatred of Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II, for his mistress Rosamond Clifford, whom she eventually murders. Donizetti was able to depict the heightened emotions of the characters with particular vividness.

In order to present these highlights to the best possible musical effect, Patric Schmid re-ordered them slightly from their appearance in the context of the opera.

Featuring the superb cast of the original recording (including Bruce Ford, Nelly Miricioiu, Alastair Miles and Diana Montague), the disc has undergone a stunning makeover and is sure to attract the attention of opera and Fleming fans alike.

Contents:
- Act I: Recitative: Volgon tre lune … ahi lassa! (Rosmonda)
- Act I: Cavatina: Perche non ho del vento (Rosmonda, Arturo)
- Act I: Cabaletta: Torna, torna or caro oggetto (Rosmonda)
- Act I: Dueto: Deh! Ti arresta! (Rosmonda, Clifford)
- Act I: Cabaletta: Vieni meco, ed un ritiro (Rosmonda, Clifford)
- Act I: Finale: E desso! E il perfido (Enrico, Rosmonda, Clifford)
- Act I: Concertato: E dessa: alfin la perfida (Leonora)
- Act I: Stretta: Tace ognun! nessun risponde? (All)
- Act II: Scene: Primiero io giungo (Rosmonda, Leonora)
- Act II: Duet: Si, non io (Rosmonda, Leonora)
- Act II: Scene: Giurato il sacrifizio (Rosmonda, Enrico)
- Act II: Duet: Giurasti un di … rammentalo (Rosmonda, Enrico)
- Act II: Stretta: Concedo un breve istante (Rosmonda, Enrico)
- Act II: Scene: Ma il tempo vila (Arturo, Clifford, Rosmonda)
- Act II: Aria: Io fuggiro quel perfido (Rosmonda, Arturo, Clifford)
- Act II: Cabaletta: Senza pace, senza sperme (Rosmonda, Arturo, Clifford)

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