Casella: La Donna Serpente

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio Torino;
Noseda, Gianandrea

NBD 0096 V

Carmela Remigio, Erika Grimaldi and Francesca Sassu, Sopranos • Anna Maria Chiuri, Mezzo-soprano • Piero Pretti and Francesco Marsiglia, Tenors • Marco Filippo Romano and Roberto de Candia, Baritones • Arturo Cirillo, Stage Director • Alfredo Casella was one of the ‘Generation of the eighties’ who sought to shake Italian music from its long-standing operatic heritage and the dominance of Puccini. La donna serpente was Casella’s only full-scale opera, its fantastic plot based on Carlo Gozzi’s renowned fairy tale that perpetually alternates between tragedy and comedy, expressed in neo-Classical music that skillfully portrays the sinister and ethereal world of the fairies as well as the intense emotions of the human realm. This production was acclaimed for Arturo Cirillo’s dreamlike setting and Gianandrea Noseda’s pin-point conducting: ‘What energy, what precision! … he delivers the complexity of this score with a disconcerting ease.’ (resmusica.com)

Blu-ray

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

01-07-2019

0730099009669