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Donizetti Heroines: The Collector’s Box-Set | Dynamic 37859

Donizetti Heroines: The Collector’s Box-Set

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Label: Dynamic

Cat No: 37859

Barcode: 8007144378592

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 13

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 18th October 2019

Contents

Artists

Celso Albelo
Manuel Amati
Xabier Anduaga
Paolo Arcangeli
Matteo Armanino
Roberto De Biasio
Joseph Calleja
Patrizia Ciofi
Cristiano Colangelo
Mariella Devia
Alessandro Fantoni
Sonia Ganassi
Marzio Giossi
Luca Grassi
Ugo Guagliardo
Enrico Giuseppe Iori
Mansoo Kim
Francesca Longari
Raffaella Lupinacci
Eva Mei
Francesco Meli
Domenico Nuovo
Mattia Olivieri
Claudio Ottino
Gian Luca Pasolini
Laura Polverelli
Stefan Pop
Jessica Pratt
Loris Purpura
Desiree Rancatore
Carmela Remigio
Cinzia Rizzone
Dario Russo
Dario Schmunck
Andreas Schroeder
Leonardo Sgroi
Veronica Simeoni
Antonino Siragusa
Sofia Soloviy
Dimitra Theodossiou
Nicola Ulivieri
Federica Vitali
Aya Wakizono
Riccardo Zanellato
Coro del Circuito Lirico Regionale Lombardo
Fondazione Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo Gaetano Donizetti
Orchestra and Chorus of Donizetti Opera
Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Orchestra and Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia

Conductors

Paolo Arrivabeni
Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Antonino Fogliani
Riccardo Frizza
Francesco Lanzillotta
Fabio Luisi
Sebastiano Rolli

Works

Donizetti, Gaetano

Anna Bolena
Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth
La favorita
Lucia di Lammermoor
Maria Stuarda
Pia de' Tolomei
Pigmalione
Roberto Devereux
Rosmonda d'Inghilterra

Artists

Celso Albelo
Manuel Amati
Xabier Anduaga
Paolo Arcangeli
Matteo Armanino
Roberto De Biasio
Joseph Calleja
Patrizia Ciofi
Cristiano Colangelo
Mariella Devia
Alessandro Fantoni
Sonia Ganassi
Marzio Giossi
Luca Grassi
Ugo Guagliardo
Enrico Giuseppe Iori
Mansoo Kim
Francesca Longari
Raffaella Lupinacci
Eva Mei
Francesco Meli
Domenico Nuovo
Mattia Olivieri
Claudio Ottino
Gian Luca Pasolini
Laura Polverelli
Stefan Pop
Jessica Pratt
Loris Purpura
Desiree Rancatore
Carmela Remigio
Cinzia Rizzone
Dario Russo
Dario Schmunck
Andreas Schroeder
Leonardo Sgroi
Veronica Simeoni
Antonino Siragusa
Sofia Soloviy
Dimitra Theodossiou
Nicola Ulivieri
Federica Vitali
Aya Wakizono
Riccardo Zanellato
Coro del Circuito Lirico Regionale Lombardo
Fondazione Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo Gaetano Donizetti
Orchestra and Chorus of Donizetti Opera
Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Orchestra and Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia

Conductors

Paolo Arrivabeni
Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Antonino Fogliani
Riccardo Frizza
Francesco Lanzillotta
Fabio Luisi
Sebastiano Rolli

About

This DVD box-set is entitled Donizetti Heroines because many of the composer’s operas are named after their female protagonists. Even in the few cases where they aren’t, they give musical portrayals of unforgettable female characters, tragic and passionate figures, often innocent victims of the infernal gears of power and therefore destined to a hapless fate.

Between 1818 and 1843 Gaetano Donizetti composed some seventy operas, many of which became very popular in his day. His first success came in 1830 with Anna Bolena and from that moment he rivalled Bellini as the ‘leading operatic composer in Italy’, churning out works with the constant rhythm of a typical 18th-century composer. Some of Donizetti’s best works rank among the masterpieces of 19th-century opera. A few of them have remained in the repertoire worldwide since their debut, while others were to be revived only from the second half of the 1900s, in the wake of what has rightly been called the ‘Donizetti Renaissance’. Today operatic audiences are radically different from those of two hundred years ago and during the 2018/19 season Donizetti was placed fifth in the list of the world’s most represented composers. We believe that the credit for this goes to his splendid heroines and their great interpreters who, yesterday and today, brought them alive on stage and continue to do so. This collectors’ release offers a selection of nine operas featuring some of the most iconic and unforgettable Donizetti characters, performed by outstanding singers such as Mariella Devia, Jessica Pratt, Carmela Remigio, Patrizia Ciofi and Sonia Ganassi.

Contents:

DVDs 1-2: Anna Bolena
- Dimitra Theodossiou
- Gian Luca Pasolini
- Riccardo Zanellato
- Sofia Soloviy
Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Conductor: Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Director: Francesco Esposito
Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, October 2006
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish

‘Theodossiou sings imaginatively, producing some lovely effects as she softens and then loads her fortissimi with almost frightening intensity.’ – Gramophone

DVDs 3-4: Pia de’ Tolomei
- Patrizia Ciofi
- Dario Schmunck
- Andreas Schroeder
- Laura Polverelli
- Francesco Meli
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni
Director: Christian Gangnerob
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, April 2005
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese

‘Patrizia Ciofi’s Pia is ravishingly sung, deeply felt and convincingly acted.’ – MusicWeb International

DVD 5: Lucia di Lammermoor
- Desiree Rancatore
- Roberto De Biasio
- Luca Grassi
- Enrico Giuseppe Iori
Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Conductor: Antonino Fogliani
Director: Francesco Esposito
Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, October 2006
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish

‘Desirée Rancatore is achieving some pathos in the Mad scene.’ – Gramophone

DVD 6: Il castello di Kenilworth
- Jessica Pratt
- Carmela Remigio
- Xabier Anduaga
- Stefan Pop
- Dario Russo
- Federica Vitali
Orchestra and Chorus of Donizetti Opera
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Maria Pilar Pérez Aspa
Teatro Sociale di Bergamo – Festival Donizetti 2018
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

‘Jessica Pratt is the Queen, looking regal and singing with stronger mid and low registers than I remember – her acuti, as ever, are plentiful and stunning.’ – Opera Now

DVD 7: Maria Stuarda
- Carmela Remigio
- Sonia Ganassi
- Joseph Calleja
- Riccardo Zanellato
- Marzio Giossi
- Cinzia Rizzone
Fondazione Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo Gaetano Donizetti, Coro del Circuito Lirico Regionale Lombardo
Conductor: Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Director: Francesco Esposito
Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, December 2001
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese

‘The Maria, Carmela Remigio, wins bravas from the audience.’ – Gramophone

DVDs 8-9: La Favorite
- Veronica Simeoni
- Celso Albelo
- Mattia Olivieri
- Ugo Guagliardo
- Manuel Amati
- Francesca Longari
- Leonardo Sgroi
- Paolo Arcangeli
- Cristiano Colangelo
- Domenico Nuovo
Orchestra and Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Director: Ariel Garcia-Valdes
Opera di Firenze / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, February 2018
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

‘Mezzo Veronica Simeoni copes well with her key aria… Fabio Luisi, gives a lucid account of Donizetti’s lyrical score.’ – Gramophone

DVD 10: Pigmalione
- Aya Wakizono
- Antonino Siragusa
Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Gianluca Capuano
Director: Roberto Catalano
Teatro Sociale di Bergamo – Festival Donizetti 2017
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

‘Aya Wakizono makes a touching Galatea.’ – BBC Music Magazine

DVD 11: Roberto Devereux
- Mariella Devia
- Sonia Ganassi
- Stefan Pop
- Mansoo Kim
- Alessandro Fantoni
- Claudio Ottino
- Matteo Armanino
- Loris Purpura
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
Conductor: Francesco Lanzillotta
Director: Alfonso Antoniozzi
Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, March 2016
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

‘Mariella Devia sings the punishing part with musicality, elegance, and intelligence.’ – Fanfare

DVDs 12-13: Rosmonda d’Inghilterra
- Jessica Pratt
- Eva Mei
- Dario Schmunck
- Nicola Ulivieri
- Raffaella Lupinacci
Orchestra and Chorus of Donizetti Opera
Conductor: Sebastiano Rolli
Director: Paola Rota
Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, November 2016
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

‘Jessica Pratt is outstanding… She has the virtue of stage good diction presence, and ability to create a meaningful character.’ – MusicWeb International

Sung in Italian
Video Format/ Aspect ratio: NTSC – 16:9
Audio Format: PCM 2.0 – Dolby digital 5.1
Region code: 0 – All regions
Notes: Italian, English

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