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Wolf-Ferrari: I quattro rusteghi

European Opera Centre, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

Wolf-Ferrari: I quattro rusteghi
Petrenko draws clean and articulate playing from the Liverpool Phil and the singers respond with character and point as they make up the battle-of-the-sexes cast. Standouts from the delicious...

BBC Music Magazine, August 20184 out of 5 stars

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Wolf-Ferrari: I quattro rusteghi

European Opera Centre, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

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Petrenko draws clean and articulate playing from the Liverpool Phil and the singers respond with character and point as they make up the battle-of-the-sexes cast. Standouts from the delicious...

BBC Music Magazine, August 20184 out of 5 stars

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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s I Quattro Rusteghi is a wonderful comedy. Very clever and very Italian: colourful, lively and rhythmic. The women are impertinent, cunning and seductive; the men are awful, dirty and mean. The confrontation between them is at the centre of the plot; of course this clash is explosive. This opera is a real feast for the senses and the imagination. The staging is choreographic and follows the plight of the different characters.

Each is attracted by and then put down by the others. The subject could be serious, and in a way it is; but Goldoni turns it into a richly humorous comedy about emancipation. The European Opera Centre chooses its repertoire with care to ensure it is suitable for young singers. This recording with the RLPO and Vasily Petrenko features some of the best young singers from across Europe with an average age below thirty who are joined by one highly experienced singer – Mihnea Lamatic from the Romanian National Opera.

  • Release date: 18th May 2018
  • Label: Rubicon
  • Catalogue number: RCD1024
  • Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Wolf-Ferrari: I quattro rusteghi
Work length2:11:12
  • Silvia Beltrami (soloist), Mihnea Lamatic (soloist), Aleksandar Stefanoski (soloist), Daniela Degennaro (soloist), Mirko Quarello (soloist), Giulio Pelligra (soloist), Romina Casucci (soloist), Tansel Akzeybek (soloist), Ana James (soloist), Agnieszka Hauzer (soloist), Roman Ialcic (soloist), Aleksandar Stefanosk (soloist)
  • European Opera Centre, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Vasily Petrenko
Atto I: Preludio
Track length1:48
Atto I, Scena 1: “Siora mare?” (Lucieta, Margarita)
Track length5:00
Atto I, Scena 2: “Velo qua, eh!” (Margarita, Lucieta, Lunardo)
Track length10:51
Atto I, Scena 3: “E cussì, come va sto maridozzo?” (Margarita, Lunardo)
Track length3:44
Atto I, Scena 4: “L’è andada finalmente” (Lunardo, Maurizio)
Track length7:37
Atto I, Scena 5: “El specio me ga dito che son bela” (Marina, una serva, Filipeto)
Track length7:53
Atto I, Scena 6: “Xe sior barba!” (Filipeto, Marina, Simone)
Track length1:07
Atto I, Scena 7: “Caro da Dio!” (Marina, Simone)
Track length1:44
Atto I, Scena 8: “Ghe la fazzo, cospetina!” (Marina, una serva, Felice, Cancian, Riccardo)
Track length12:00
Atto I, Scena 9: “Marina? – Sior?” (Simone, Marina, Felice, Riccardo, Cancian)
Track length6:16
Intermezzo
Track length3:41
Atto II, Scena 1: “I me vol zirar ma mi li go magnai!” Lucieta, Margarita
Track length9:56
Atto II, Scena 2: “Coss’è? Coss’è, parona, che parè una bissona?”(Lunardo, Margarita, Lucieta)
Track length1:34
Atto II, Scena 3: “Patrona, siora Malgari!” (Marina, Margarita, Lucieta, Simone, Lunardo)
Track length3:11
Atto II, Scena 4: “Marideve, che avarè de sti gusti” (Simone, Lunardo)
Track length6:02
Atto II, Scena 5: “Oh, ècome quà lustrissimi” (Felice, Simone, Lunardo, Margarita, Lucieta, Marina)
Track length9:30
Atto II, Scena 6: “A vu, ste mascarete ve domanda” (Margarita, Riccardo, Felice, Marina, Lucieta, Filipeto)
Track length6:41
Atto II, Scena 7: “Cossa feu là?” (Lunardo, Lucieta, Simone, Cancian, Marina, Felice, Margarita)
Track length2:41
Atto II, Scena 8: “O via, seu quà?” (Lunardo, Maurizio, Simone, Cancian, Felice, Riccardo, Marina, Filipeto, Lucieta, Margarita)
Track length3:34
Atto III, Scena 1: “Hm! Ah, femene del diavolo, parchè ve gai creà?” (Lunardo, Simone, Cancian)
Track length11:12
Atto III, Scena 2: “Siori gentilissimi grazie del bon amor” (Felice, Lunardo, Simone, Cancian)
Track length7:29
Atto III, Ultima Scena: “Vele quà pentìe contrìe le domanda perdon” (Felice, Lucieta, Marina, Margarita, Lunardo, Cancian, Simone, Maurizio, Filipeto, Riccardo)
Track length7:41

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Awards and reviews

August 2018

Petrenko draws clean and articulate playing from the Liverpool Phil and the singers respond with character and point as they make up the battle-of-the-sexes cast. Standouts from the delicious soprano of Ana James as Felice and the likable, Latin tenor of Tansel Akzeybek as Filipeto, while the best sections of the piece – like the well-known intermezzo – are light as a feather.
4 out of 5 stars

September 2018

Petrenko goes full out on Italian charm…and the many soloists – spanning the continent – are all young and committed. Mihnea Lamatic is suitably grumpy as the antique dealer Lunardo, trying to honour local custom by not allowing his daughter to see her bridegroom ahead of her wedding. Romina Casucci’s pert soprano makes for an engaging Lucieta.

Record Review 23rd June 2018

A gorgeous new release...the European Opera Centre picked a great cast of unknown young voices from across Europe.
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