Rossini: Figaro? Sì!

The appealingly voiced Sempey has sung Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in major opera houses throughout Europe and beyond, and his immersion in the role is abundantly clear in the witty, wellcharacterised... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Apr 2022
Catalogue No: ALPHA791
Label: Alpha
Length: 67 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Vocal Music

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Excerpt, Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

Work length11:03

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Florian Sempey (soloist)
Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Bordeaux
Marc Minkowski

Aria. Largo al factotum (Figaro)

Track length4:22

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Duet. Ma dite, signor Figaro-Dunque io son (Rosina, Figaro)

Track length6:41

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Rossini: Amore dolcemente (from La scala di seta)

Work length8:58

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Florian Sempey (soloist)
Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Bordeaux
Marc Minkowski

Rossini: Un segreto d'importanza (from La Cenerentola)

Work length5:27

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Florian Sempey (soloist)
Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Bordeaux
Marc Minkowski

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia Overture

Work length6:43

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Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Bordeaux
Marc Minkowski

Excerpt, Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri

Work length20:51

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Florian Sempey (soloist)
Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Bordeaux
Marc Minkowski

Chorus. Viva il grande Kaimakan

Track length4:55

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Duet. Ai Cappricci della sorte (Isabella, Taddeo)

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Overture

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Rossini: Che sorte, che accidente (from L'occasione fa il ladro)

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Florian Sempey (soloist)
Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Bordeaux
Marc Minkowski

Rossini: Dans ce lieu solitaire (from Le comte Ory)

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Florian Sempey (soloist)
Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Bordeaux
Marc Minkowski

Rossini: La chanson du bébé

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Martine Marcuz, Florian Sempey (soloist)

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The French baritone Florian Sempey has established himself as a key player on today’s operatic scene. For his first solo recital, Rossini was the obvious choice, first of all because he has already performed the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia in the leading opera houses, from Paris to London, and of course by way of Orange and Pesaro. But there is another reason: ‘Rossini was the first composer’s name I heard in my life. At my grandparents’ house, there was a bust above the piano, on a little rococo display stand’ – the bust that appears on the cover of this album. ‘Rossini’s music is a challenge for singers and also a great and very strict technical training for them. It calls for the highest standards and degree of precision. This programme presents arias in French and Italian, mingling the most famous (including Figaro’s ‘Sono il factotum’) with rarities such as Germano’s aria from La scala di seta and Don Parmenione’s from L’occasione fa il ladro. It also includes magnificent duets with two dream partners, Karine Deshayes and Nahuel Di Pierro. And who better to conduct the Orchestre de l’Opéra National Bordeaux Aquitaine than the accomplished Rossinian Marc Minkowski, who gives this music an inimitable sparkle?

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August 2022

The appealingly voiced Sempey has sung Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in major opera houses throughout Europe and beyond, and his immersion in the role is abundantly clear in the witty, wellcharacterised rendition of ‘Largo al factotum’ that opens this recording. But this is not simply an album of lollipops.

December 2022

he is a master of both the idiom and the Italian language— I particularly relish his Italian rolled ‘r’. A charismatic comic persona emerges vividly through his singing.

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