Special offer. Giacomo Meyerbeer: Romilda e Costanza
Patrick Kabongo (Teobaldo), Javier Povedano (Retello), Chiara Brunello (Romilda), Cesar Cortes (Lotario), Luiza Fatyol (Costanza), Emmanuel Franco (Albertone), Claire Gascoin (Annina), Giulio Mastrototaro (Pierotto), Timophey Pavlenko (Ugo), Gorecki Chamber Choir, Passionart Orchestra, Luciano Acocella
There is plenty to enjoy: drama, passion, plot and a satisfying ending. But a wider expressive range, with more vocal agility and choral-orchestral polish, would serve Meyerbeer’s fertile imagination...
Special offer. Giacomo Meyerbeer: Romilda e Costanza
Patrick Kabongo (Teobaldo), Javier Povedano (Retello), Chiara Brunello (Romilda), Cesar Cortes (Lotario), Luiza Fatyol (Costanza), Emmanuel Franco (Albertone), Claire Gascoin (Annina), Giulio Mastrototaro (Pierotto), Timophey Pavlenko (Ugo), Gorecki Chamber Choir, Passionart Orchestra, Luciano Acocella
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There is plenty to enjoy: drama, passion, plot and a satisfying ending. But a wider expressive range, with more vocal agility and choral-orchestral polish, would serve Meyerbeer’s fertile imagination...
About
"Meyerbeer had already won renown in Italy before conquering Paris with a sequence of much-acclaimed grand operas. In a musical climate dominated by Rossini, Meyerbeer’s first Italian opera, Romilda e Costanza, earned the still-unknown 26-year-old composer the sobriquet of ‘the genius of the Spree’. The work is a rescue opera overlaid with a love triangle, which was written for specific performers, and the passionate intensity of feeling – from lyricism to unfettered virtuosity – reflects the semiseria nature of the opera. It is performed here in the original version heard at the 1817 premiere."
Artists
Patrick Kabongo (Teobaldo), Javier Povedano (Retello), Chiara Brunello (Romilda), Cesar Cortes (Lotario), Luiza Fatyol (Costanza), Emmanuel Franco (Albertone), Claire Gascoin (Annina), Giulio Mastrototaro (Pierotto), Timophey Pavlenko (Ugo), Gorecki Chamber Choir, Passionart Orchestra, Luciano Acocella
Contents and tracklist
- Claire Gascoin (mezzo-soprano), Giulio Mastrototaro (baritone), Javier Povedano (bass-baritone), Emmanuel Franco (baritone), Andrés Jesús Gallucci (fortepiano), Luiza Fatyol (soprano), César Cortés (tenor), Patrick Kabongo (tenor), Timophey Pavlenko (bass), Chiara Brunello (contralto)
- Passionart Orchestra Krakow, Górecki Chamber Choir
- Luciano Acocella
Awards and reviews
February 2021
There is plenty to enjoy: drama, passion, plot and a satisfying ending. But a wider expressive range, with more vocal agility and choral-orchestral polish, would serve Meyerbeer’s fertile imagination better.
March 2021
The music certainly displays a Rossinian influence...The performance is a little rough and ready...The playing of the Passionart Orchestra under Luciano Acocella is lively. Congolese tenor Patrick Kabongo is tested by Meyerbeer’s florid writing for Teobaldo, but his high notes are exciting. Chiara Brunello has a nice, fruity contralto as Romilda.
