Donizetti: Imelda de’ Lambertazzi
Nicole Cabell (Imelda), James Westman (Bonifacio Geremei), Massimo Giordano (Lamberto), Frank Lopardo (Orlando Lambertazzi), Brindley Sherratt (Ubaldo)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mark Elder
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Opera Finalist
Elder makes a persuasive case for Donizetti's early Romeo-and-Juliet-esque tale of warring families.
Donizetti: Imelda de’ Lambertazzi
Nicole Cabell (Imelda), James Westman (Bonifacio Geremei), Massimo Giordano (Lamberto), Frank Lopardo (Orlando Lambertazzi), Brindley Sherratt (Ubaldo)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mark Elder
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Opera Finalist
Elder makes a persuasive case for Donizetti's early Romeo-and-Juliet-esque tale of warring families.
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Contents and tracklist
"Morte al Guelfo!" (Part of the Armed Chorus, Women, Citizens, First Part of Chorus, Second Part of Chorus, Orlando, Imelda, Lamberto)
Track length1:48
Donizetti:
Imelda de' Lambertazzi, Appendix: "M'odi almen, te ne scongiuro" (Imelda)
Work length7:54
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Awards and reviews
June 2014
Elder makes a persuasive case for Donizetti's early Romeo-and-Juliet-esque tale of warring families.
18th April 2008
[This recording's] strengths lie in powerhouse performances from James Westman as Bonifacio and Massimo Giordano as Imelda's appalling brother Lamberto. Nicole Cabell's Imelda, though exquisite, seems disengaged in comparison. Mark Elder's conducting is wonderfully insistent, while the dark, period sound of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment adds immeasurably to the oppressive atmosphere of it all.
