Special offer. Mozart X 3
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Basel Chamber Orchestra, Louis Langrée
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
Dreisig knows how much Mozart’s recitatives tell us about his characters...She has splendid theatrical partners in Louis Langrée and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, who field a stylish basset clarinet...
Special offer. Mozart X 3
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Basel Chamber Orchestra, Louis Langrée
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
Dreisig knows how much Mozart’s recitatives tell us about his characters...She has splendid theatrical partners in Louis Langrée and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, who field a stylish basset clarinet...
About
Elsa Dreisig credits Mozart with being the composer who first inspired her to become a professional singer. Now the French-Danish soprano pays him tribute with an album devoted entirely to arias from his operas. Its title, Mozart x3, reflects a programme constructed around the three masterpieces composed to libretti written by Lorenzo Da Ponte: Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte. Elsa Dreisig sings arias allocated to three different characters in each of these operas. The total of nine ‘Da Ponte arias’ is complemented by three arias from examples of the dignified genre opera seria: La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo and Lucio Silla. Accompanying Elsa Dreisig is the Kammerorchester Basel, conducted by Louis Langrée, now director of Paris’s celebrated Opéra-Comique.
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceJanuary 2022
March 2022
Dreisig knows how much Mozart’s recitatives tell us about his characters...She has splendid theatrical partners in Louis Langrée and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, who field a stylish basset clarinet player in ‘Non più di fiori’ from La Clemenza di Tito.
February 2022
with this voice and dramatic sense – the accompanied recitatives, urgently supported by Louis Langrée and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, are unfailingly excellent – she is a singer and actor who can go far.
January 2022
it's fascinating to hear her plush, agile lyric soprano in roles which are now more often assigned to soubrettes and mezzos, as well as on 'home' territory; I love the creamy sensuality which she brings to Susanna's 'Deh, vieni' and Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', and her Donnas Anna and Elvira are brilliantly differentiated.
13th February 2022
Recalling Sena Jurinac, the great 1950s soprano, in both timbre and histrionic versatility…[she] creates vivid characters in her declamation of Fiordiligi’s, Susanna’s and Donna Anna’s recitatives, and the technical élan to carry off Elettra’s and Vitellia’s angry arias, reclaiming Cherubino’s lovely song and Dorabella’s parody outburst for sopranos.
