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Passionart Orchestra Krakow, Victoria Yarovaya, Sara Blanch, Michele Angelini – Rossini: Matilde di Shabran (1821 Version) [Live] (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:17:14 minutes | 2,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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The comic-heroic romp Matilde di Shabran was Rossini’s last commission for the theatres of Rome, the city where he’d had great successes such as Il barbiere di Siviglia. Rossini took advantage of the agile, sparkling style of librettist Jacopo Ferretti to create a narrative in which the ferocious Corradino, a declared misogynist, is introduced to the resourceful Matilde, who succeeds in melting his iron heart and winning his love. This premiere recording revives the original 1821 Rome version, which was conducted at the last minute by Paganini, and caused brawling in the streets between Rossini’s admirers and detractors.
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Passionart Orchestra Krakow – Meyerbeer: Romilda e Costanza (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:53:41 minutes | 1,74 GB | Genre: Classical
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Meyerbeer had already won renown in Italy before conquering Paris with a sequence of much-acclaimed grand operas. In a musical climate dominated by Rossini, Meyerbeer’s first Italian opera, Romilda e Costanza, earned the still-unknown 26-year-old composer the sobriquet of ‘the genius of the Spree’. The work is a rescue opera overlaid with a love triangle, which was written for specific performers, and the passionate intensity of feeling – from lyricism to unfettered virtuosity – reflects the semiseria nature of the opera. It is performed here in the original version heard at the 1817 premiere.
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