Evgeny Stavinsky

Annalisa Stroppa, Javier Camarena, Florian Sempey, Evgeny Stavinsky, Edoardo Milletti, Caterina Di Tonno, Donizetti Opera Orchestra and Riccardo Frizz, Riccardo Frizza, Donizetti Opera Orchestra – Donizetti: La favorite, A. 58 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:59:31 minutes | 2,86 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Written for the Opéra in Paris, Gaetano Donizetti’s La Favorite contains some of his most famously enthralling arias. While its much-reduced Italian version has continued in popularity, this superb production from the Donizetti Opera Festival in his birthplace of Bergamo returns the work to its rarely heard 1840 French grand opera origins. Set in 14th-century Spain, the tragic story is of a pious novice (Fernand) who falls in love with a noble lady and abandons the cloister, meeting her in secret. He becomes a war hero and asks the King for her hand, later finding out to his horror that she is Léonor de Guzman, the King’s beloved mistress.

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