Meyerbeer: Romilda e Costanza

Górecki Chamber Choir;
Passionart Orchestra;
Acocella, Luciano

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Luiza Fatyol, Soprano

Claire Gascoin, Mezzo-soprano

Chiara Brunello, Contralto

Patrick Kabongo and César Cortés, Tenors

Emmanuel Franco and Giulio Mastrototaro, Baritones

Javier Povedano, Bass-baritone

Timophey Pavlenko, Bass

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.

CD x 2

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

02-11-2020

730099049573