Donizetti: Heroines (The Collector's Box-Set)

Release Date: 18th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: 37859
Label: Dynamic

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Donizetti: Anna Bolena

Dimitra Theodossiou (Anna), Gian Luca Pasolini (Percy), Riccardo Zanellato (Enrico), Sofia Soloviy (Giovanna), Mauro Corna (Rochefort), José Maria Lo Monaco (Smeton), Luigi Albani (Hervey)
Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Francesco Esposito

Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei

Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Dario Schmunck (tenor), Andreas Schroeder (baritone) & Laura Polverelli (mezzo)
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
Paolo Arrivabeni, Christian Gangneron

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

Désirée Rancatore (Lucia), Roberto De Biasio (Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood), Luca Grassi (Lord Enrico Asthon), Enrico Giuseppe Iori (Raimondo Bidebent), Matteo Barca (Lord Arturo), Tiziana Falco (Alisa) & Vincenzo Maria Sarinelli (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizett
Antonino Fogliani, Francesco Esposito

Donizetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth

Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), Carmela Remigio (Amelia), Stefan Pop (Warney), Xabier Anduaga (Leicester), Dario Russo (Lambourne) & Federica Vitali (Fanny)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera
Riccardo Frizza, Pilar Perez Aspa

Donizetti: Maria Stuarda

Carmela Remigio (Maria), Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), Joseph Calleja (Leicester), Riccardo Zanellato (Talbot), Marzio Giossi (Cecil), Cinzia Rizzone (Anna)
Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo
Fabrizo Maria Carminati, Francesco Esposito

Donizetti: La Favorite

Veronica Simeoni (Leonor), Celso Albelo (Fernand) & Mattia Olivieri (Alphonse)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Fabio Luisi, Ariel García Valdés

Donizetti: Pigmalione

Antonino Siragusa (Pigmalione) & Aya Wakizono (Galatea)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Gianluca Capuano, Roberto Catalano

Donizetti: Roberto Devereux

Mariella Devia (Elisabetta), Sonia Ganassi (Sara), Stefan Pop (Roberto), Mansoo Kim (Duke of Nottingham), Alessandro Fantoni (Lord Cecil), Claudio Ottino (Sir Gualtiero Raleigh), Matteo Armanino (A page), Loris Purpura (A servant of Nottingham)
Teatro Carlo Felice
Francesco Lanzillotta, Alfonso Antoniozzi

Donizetti: Rosmonda d'lnghilterra

Jessica Pratt (Rosmonda), Eva Mei (Leonora), Dario Schmunck (Enrico), Nicola Ulivieri (Clifford), Raffaella Lupinacci (Arturo)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera
Sebastiano Rolli, Paola Rota

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This DVD box-set is entitled Donizetti Heroines because many of the composer’s operas are named after their female protagonists. Even in the few cases where they aren’t, they give musical portrayals of unforgettable female characters, tragic and passionate figures, often innocent victims of the infernal gears of power and therefore destined to a hapless fate.

Between 1818 and 1843 Gaetano Donizetti composed some seventy operas, many of which became very popular in his day. His first success came in 1830 with Anna Bolena and from that moment he rivalled Bellini as the ‘leading operatic composer in Italy’, churning out works with the constant rhythm of a typical 18th-century composer.

Some of Donizetti’s best works rank among the masterpieces of 19th-century opera. A few of them have remained in the repertoire worldwide since their debut, while others were to be revived only from the second half of the 1900s, in the wake of what has rightly been called the ‘Donizetti Renaissance’. Today operatic audiences are radically different from those of two hundred years ago and during the 2018/19 season Donizetti was placed fifth in the list of the world’s most represented composers. We believe that the credit for this goes to his splendid heroines and their great interpreters who, yesterday and today, brought them alive on stage and continue to do so. This collectors’ release offers a selection of nine operas featuring some of the most iconic and unforgettable Donizetti characters, performed by outstanding singers such as Mariella Devia, Jessica Pratt, Carmela Remigio, Patrizia Ciofi and Sonia Ganassi.

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Dimitra Theodossiou (Anna), Gian Luca Pasolini (Percy), Riccardo Zanellato (Enrico), Sofia Soloviy (Giovanna), Mauro Corna (Rochefort), José Maria Lo Monaco (Smeton), Luigi Albani (Hervey), Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Dario Schmunck (tenor), Andreas Schroeder (baritone) & Laura Polverelli (mezzo), Désirée Rancatore (Lucia), Roberto De Biasio (Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood), Luca Grassi (Lord Enrico Asthon), Enrico Giuseppe Iori (Raimondo Bidebent), Matteo Barca (Lord Arturo), Tiziana Falco (Alisa) & Vincenzo Maria Sarinelli (Normanno), Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), Carmela Remigio (Amelia), Stefan Pop (Warney), Xabier Anduaga (Leicester), Dario Russo (Lambourne) & Federica Vitali (Fanny), Carmela Remigio (Maria), Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), Joseph Calleja (Leicester), Riccardo Zanellato (Talbot), Marzio Giossi (Cecil), Cinzia Rizzone (Anna), Veronica Simeoni (Leonor), Celso Albelo (Fernand) & Mattia Olivieri (Alphonse), Antonino Siragusa (Pigmalione) & Aya Wakizono (Galatea), Mariella Devia (Elisabetta), Sonia Ganassi (Sara), Stefan Pop (Roberto), Mansoo Kim (Duke of Nottingham), Alessandro Fantoni (Lord Cecil), Claudio Ottino (Sir Gualtiero Raleigh), Matteo Armanino (A page), Loris Purpura (A servant of Nottingham), Jessica Pratt (Rosmonda), Eva Mei (Leonora), Dario Schmunck (Enrico), Nicola Ulivieri (Clifford), Raffaella Lupinacci (Arturo)

Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizett, Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Carlo Felice, Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Francesco Esposito, Paolo Arrivabeni, Christian Gangneron, Antonino Fogliani, Riccardo Frizza, Pilar Perez Aspa, Fabrizo Maria Carminati, Fabio Luisi, Ariel García Valdés, Gianluca Capuano, Roberto Catalano, Francesco Lanzillotta, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Sebastiano Rolli, Paola Rota

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