Bellini: I puritani

Staatsorchester Stuttgart;
Benzi, Manlio

NBD 0093 V

Libretto by Carlo Pepoli after "Têtes rondes et cavalieres" by Jacques François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine • Ana Durlovski, Soprano • Diana Haller, Mezzo-soprano • René Barbera, Tenor • Gezim Myshketa, Baritone • Adam Palka and Roland Bracht, Basses • Staatsopernchor Stuttgart • Staatsorchester Stuttgart • Manlio Benzi, Conductor • Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, Stage Directors • I puritani is one of Bellini’s most creative and influential masterpieces, a bel canto opera stamped with vocal and orchestral writing of intoxicating beauty and dramatic intensity. Set in England in the Civil War shortly before Oliver Cromwell’s triumph, it involves romantic and political intrigues that drew from Bellini music of melodic raptness and melancholic depth. It also inspired him to compose some of his most breathtakingly virtuosic passages, notably Elvira’s Mad Scene, that call for the utmost in theatrical power. This production includes for the first time all the music performed at the work’s Paris premiere.

Blu-ray

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

06-05-2019

0730099009362