Donizetti: Roberto Devereux

Release Date: 14th Oct 2016
Catalogue No: BAC130
Label: Bel Air Classiques

Mariella Devia (Elizabeth, Queen of England), Marco Caria (Duke of Nottingham), Silvia Tro Santafe (Sara, Duchess of Nottingham), Gregory Kunde (Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex), Juan Antonio Sanabria (Lord William Cecil) & Andrea Mastroni (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real de Madrid
Bruno Campanella

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In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux, one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims: ‘I do not reign, I do not live’. This statement encapsulates great operatic themes, and it is the culmination of an opera that reveals the passions of characters who live among palace intrigues. Written in the mature period of the leader of Italian romanticism, the opera displays a great vocal virtuosity, and is an example of Donizetti prizing the voice above all in the genre. The staging, by South African director Alessandro Talevi, who has been very successful in great opera houses as well as with more experimental theatre, places the play in an undetermined period, focusing on the chiaroscuro.

Bruno Campanella conducts the production, with Mariella Devia (Award Winner Singer of the Year at the Opera Awards 2016), Silvia Tro Santafé and Gregory Kunde in the main roles.

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