Donizetti - Parisina
£36.05
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Label: Opera Rara
Cat No: ORC40
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 1st September 2009
Contents
Artists
Carmen GiannattasioJose Bros
Dario Solari
Nicola Ulivieri
Ann Taylor
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
David ParryWorks
ParisinaArtists
Carmen GiannattasioJose Bros
Dario Solari
Nicola Ulivieri
Ann Taylor
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
David ParryAbout
Its fortunes may change again with this new recording, cast from strength and led by the Parisina of Carmen Giannattasio and José Bros as Ugo.
The plot is unusually dark, even for an early romantic melodramma. Parisina, the wife of Azzo, a 15th-century Duke of Ferrara, has fallen in love with Ugo, who turns out to be a child of Azzo’s previous marriage. In furious anger at her outlandish passion, Azzo has his own son murdered and presents his anguished stepmother with the corpse. This horrifying scenario was just the sort of passionate narrative to set the composer’s musical pulses racing, and the result remained his favourite among his works for many years; as his biographer William Ashbrook has written, ‘Parisina contains some of Donizetti’s most vivid musical portraiture.’
The 3CD set comes with a lavishly illustrated book including a complete libretto with an English translation and an article and synopsis by the eminent 19th century musical scholar, Jeremy Commons.
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