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Donizetti - Linda di Chamounix | Opera Rara ORC43

Donizetti - Linda di Chamounix

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Label: Opera Rara

Cat No: ORC43

Barcode: 0792938004327

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 3rd May 2011

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Eglise Gutierrez
Ludovic Tezier
Stephen Costello
Marianna Pizzolato
Alessandro Corbelli
Balint Szabo
Elizabeth Sikora
Luciano Botelho
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor

Sir Mark Elder

Works

Donizetti, Gaetano

Linda di Chamounix

Artists

Eglise Gutierrez
Ludovic Tezier
Stephen Costello
Marianna Pizzolato
Alessandro Corbelli
Balint Szabo
Elizabeth Sikora
Luciano Botelho
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor

Sir Mark Elder

About

One of the biggest successes of Donizetti’s career, Linda di Chamounix was performed all over the operatic world in the decades following its 1842 Viennese premiere, then fell into neglect. The live concert performances recorded by Opera Rara at Covent Garden, in 2009, were its first there since 1887.

This is one of Donizetti’s finest achievements, aimed at the musically sophisticated Viennese public and featuring some of his best arias, ensembles and choruses, including the brilliant soprano showpiece ‘O luce di quest’anima’; in this semi-seria opera this much-admired aria is sung by Linda (Eglise Gutiérrez), who has fallen in love with Carlo (Stephen Costello – a recent Richard Tucker Award winner) believing him to be a painter, though he is in reality a nobleman.

Packed off to Paris to stop her falling into the clutches of his uncle, the dubious Marchese de Boisfleury (Alessandro Corbelli), Linda is discovered in compromising circumstances by her father Antonio (Ludovic Tézier), who curses her, causing her to lose her reason. Supported by the loyal Pierotto (Marianna Pizzolato), Linda returns to Chamounix and sanity and, eventually, to the arms of the man she loves.

Sir Mark Elder conducts the recent critical edition of this outstanding score.

The 3CD set comes with a lavishly illustrated book including a complete libretto with an English translation, and a comprehensive article and synopsis by the eminent 19th-century musical scholar, Jeremy Commons.

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