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Italian Album: Arias & Overtures by Verdi & Puccini | MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm) MDG9091664

Italian Album: Arias & Overtures by Verdi & Puccini

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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)

Cat No: MDG9091664

Barcode: 0760623166469

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 21st February 2011

Contents

Works

Puccini, Giacomo

Il Tabarro
» Hai ben ragione
La Boheme
» Che gelida manina (Your tiny hand is frozen) (Act 1)
Tosca
» E lucevan le stelle (Act 3)
» Recondita armonia (Act 1)
Turandot
» Nessun dorma (Act 2)

Verdi, Giuseppe

La Traviata
» Lunge da lei ...De' miei bollenti spiriti (Act 2)
» Prelude (Act 1)
Macbeth
» O figli ...Ah! La paterna mano (Act 4)
» Prelude
Rigoletto
» Ella mi fu rapita (Act 2)
Un ballo in maschera
» Forse la soglia attinse ...Ma se m'e forza perderti (Act 3)
» Gustavus and Amelia's Duet

Artists

Timothy Richards (tenor)
Minsk Orchestra

Conductor

Wilhelm Keitel

Works

Puccini, Giacomo

Il Tabarro
» Hai ben ragione
La Boheme
» Che gelida manina (Your tiny hand is frozen) (Act 1)
Tosca
» E lucevan le stelle (Act 3)
» Recondita armonia (Act 1)
Turandot
» Nessun dorma (Act 2)

Verdi, Giuseppe

La Traviata
» Lunge da lei ...De' miei bollenti spiriti (Act 2)
» Prelude (Act 1)
Macbeth
» O figli ...Ah! La paterna mano (Act 4)
» Prelude
Rigoletto
» Ella mi fu rapita (Act 2)
Un ballo in maschera
» Forse la soglia attinse ...Ma se m'e forza perderti (Act 3)
» Gustavus and Amelia's Duet

Artists

Timothy Richards (tenor)
Minsk Orchestra

Conductor

Wilhelm Keitel

About

This is Timothy Richards’ first solo SACD. This Welsh tenor has been enchanting the European opera public for the past ten years and is currently at the Comic Opera in Berlin and the Semper Opera in Dresden. He began his professional career as a rugby player, but in his early childhood he had shown talent for song and stage performance, and his wish to become an opera singer eventually gained the upper hand. In 1994 he received two scholarships to study voice at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he won the Towyn Roberts National Competition, astonishing the public with a spectacular D flat in Rossini’s Stabat mater.

Timothy Richards has now recorded the most beautiful arias from his Italian repertoire for his first solo SACD. He is joined by the young Minsk Orchestra performing under its conductor and founder Wilhelm Keitel.

Timothy Richards made his acclaimed opera debut as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Welsh National Opera, and the singer has remained true to the major roles of Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini. Here he has distinguished himself as the Duke (Rigoletto), Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera) and Rodolfo (La bohème) and, of course, as Cavaradossi (Tosca).

The Welsh singer is convincing as a vocalist, but the multichannel recording also suggests an impressive stage presence and an extremely dynamic and strong presentation of the roles.

The Minsk Orchestra and its German principal conductor profit from the artistic perfection of Verdi and Puccini. While the strings and winds merely offered an underlay with the appropriate harmonies in arias of the eighteenth century, progress in compositional technique later enabled them to supply entirely new tone colours, in order to heighten and intensify the atmosphere of an opera scene. The Minsk Orchestra is sovereign in its mastery of this task. The prelude to Macbeth is also worth hearing and in no way takes the backseat.

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