Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Michael Spyres (Aureliano), Jessica Pratt (Zenobia), Lena Belkina (Arsace) & Raffaella Lupinacci (Publia)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Will Crutchfield (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
[This production] is excellent and the singing on a very high level. The title role has the least interesting music, but Michael Spyres…makes what he can of it…[the lovers] are sung by Lena...
Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Michael Spyres (Aureliano), Jessica Pratt (Zenobia), Lena Belkina (Arsace) & Raffaella Lupinacci (Publia)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Will Crutchfield (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
[This production] is excellent and the singing on a very high level. The title role has the least interesting music, but Michael Spyres…makes what he can of it…[the lovers] are sung by Lena...
About
World Premiere Recording
Set Designer Sergio Tramonti
Costume Designer Ursula Patzak
Aureliano in Palmira celebrated its first première on 26 December 1813 at the Scala In Milan. Soon afterwards the work was played in different theatres all over Europe. Nevertheless Rossini’s piece fell into oblivion more and more compared to the great competitors like “Tancredi” or the “Barber of Seville” for which Rossini recycled musical parts of “Aureliano”. But since a few years there are ambitions to play this work about love, war, jealousy, loyalty and magnanimity more frequently. The direction in Pesaro was in the proven hands of the famous film director Mario Martone. Conductor Will Crutchfield contributes to the successful performance of the newly edited “Aureliano in Palmira” and masterfully directs the Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini.
Bonus: Making of “Aureliano in Palmira”
Sound Formats: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
Original Language: IT
Subtitles: IT, GB, DE, FR, KOR, JP
Blu-ray Disc 50 GB (Dual Layer)
Resolution: 1080i High Defi nition
Running Time: 201 mins & 14 mins (Bonus)
FSK: 0
Contents and tracklist
- Live from the Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro, 2014
- Michael Spyres (Aureliano), Jessica Pratt (Zenobia), Lena Belkina (Arsace) & Raffaella Lupinacci (Publia)
- Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna
- Will Crutchfield (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director)
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2015DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
November 2015
[This production] is excellent and the singing on a very high level. The title role has the least interesting music, but Michael Spyres…makes what he can of it…[the lovers] are sung by Lena Belkina (Arsace, the male) and Jessica Pratt (the female), both of them evidently performers with a big future. There is a delightful pastoral scene, with three live goats (no vocal contribution) and the opera is briskly but sensitively conducted.
Awards Issue 2015
the staging by film director Mario Martone is simple without being static, pointful without being concept-bound...[Belkina] as handsome a young warrior as any Zenobia might wish for and a superb singer-performer to boot...Jessica Pratt is a vocally brilliant Zenobia, full-voiced even on the highest E flat...Spyres’s Aureliano withstands nobly the vocal challenges of a part which Rossini wrote for two different voices.
