Alfano: Risurrezione

The leading performances here, especially Duprels’s, are worth hearing and seeing, and the work, an archetypal example of full-on verismo, is an intriguing memory of one of opera’s historic formal... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2021 More…

Release Date: 19th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: 37866
Label: Dynamic

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Alfano: Risurrezione

Anne Sophie Duprels (Katiushia), Matthew Vickers (Dimitri), Leon Kim (Simonson), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company), Francesco Lanzillotta, Rosetta Cucchi

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Franco Alfano’s opera Risurrezione draws its inspiration from Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection and was the work that ensured Alfano’s considerable success as a composer. The plot narrates the story of Katiusha and her tragic love for prince Dimitri who seduces and abandons her, condemning her to a life of sacrifice and desperation. Seen here in Fancesco Lanzillotta’s acclaimed Florence production, Risurrezione recalls Richard Strauss and Puccini – the drama evolving in an uninterrupted flow with moments of soaring lyricism alongside striking and evocative orchestration. The work gives voice to an idea that Alfano left in his memoirs: ‘Recoiling from catastrophes, I believed and still believe in the renovation, regeneration, and final purification of human passions from evil to goodness.’

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May 2021

The leading performances here, especially Duprels’s, are worth hearing and seeing, and the work, an archetypal example of full-on verismo, is an intriguing memory of one of opera’s historic formal styles.

July 2021

Katyusha’s spiritual growth through suffering offers great opportunities for a singing actor, and Anne Sophie Duprels seizes them well. It’s a mammoth role...and Duprels becomes ever more involving as she progressively opens up her plangent lyric soprano...Matthew Vickers takes his chances equally well as the guiltily generous Prince Dimitri..and neither Francesco Lanzillotta’s fluent conducting nor the choral and orchestral contributions let the side down.

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