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Wolf-Ferrari - Die vier Grobiane (The Four Curmudgeons) | CPO 5551402

Wolf-Ferrari - Die vier Grobiane (The Four Curmudgeons)

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5551402

Barcode: 0761203514021

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 31st January 2020

Contents

Artists

Christina Landshamer (soprano)
Susanne Bernhard (soprano)
Christine Buffle (soprano)
Nathalie Flessa (mezzo-soprano)
Zoryana Kushpler (mezzo-soprano)
Markus Francke (tenor)
Uwe Eikotter (tenor)
Peter Schone (baritone)
Jürgen Linn (bass-baritone)
Victor von Halem (bass)
Friedemann Rohlig (bass)
Munchner Rundfunkorchester

Conductor

Ulf Schirmer

Works

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno

I quattro rusteghi (The Four Curmudgeons)

Artists

Christina Landshamer (soprano)
Susanne Bernhard (soprano)
Christine Buffle (soprano)
Nathalie Flessa (mezzo-soprano)
Zoryana Kushpler (mezzo-soprano)
Markus Francke (tenor)
Uwe Eikotter (tenor)
Peter Schone (baritone)
Jürgen Linn (bass-baritone)
Victor von Halem (bass)
Friedemann Rohlig (bass)
Munchner Rundfunkorchester

Conductor

Ulf Schirmer

About

The conductor Ulf Schirmer has a special knack for the light Muse – as his regular operetta performances with the Munich Radio Orchestra, many of them documented on cpo, have shown over the years. Munich was also the site of the 1906 premiere of Die vier Grobiane/I quatro rusteghi by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, a work answering to the description of a modern comic opera and displaying this composer’s typical combination of marvelously chatty parlando and charming melodicism. There are two sides to the conflict fueling the plot: four curmudgeonly husbands who believe that they can and should exercise absolute rule over their wives and children and female characters who engage in intrigues. The action of the opera is set in Venice and elaborates a source text by Carlo Goldoni (1760). The composer scores his points with a tone of considerable lightness, a small orchestral ensemble entrusted with the presentation of a famous intermezzo, and spirited melodies in part based on folk songs. The wealth of ideas developed in his harmonic scheme remaining within tonal limits is also surprising.

Cast:
- Lucieta: Christina Landshamer (soprano)
- Marina: Susanne Bernhard (soprano)
- Felice: Christine Buffle (soprano)
- A young maiden: Nathalie Flessa (mezzo-soprano)
- Margarita: Zoryana Kushpler (mezzo-soprano)
- Filipeto: Markus Francke (tenor)
- Count Riccardo: Uwe Eikötter (tenor)
- Simon: Peter Schöne (baritone)
- Lunardo: Jürgen Linn (bass-baritone)
- Maurizio: Victor von Halem (bass)
- Cancian: Friedemann Röhlig (bass)

Recorded: 26 October 2014, Prinzregententheater, Munich

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