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Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Review: Soirées musicales / La cambiale di matrimonio

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(Photo: Amati Bacciardi / ROF 2025) Soirées musicales After the triumph of his last opera, “Guillaume Tell,” Gioachino Rossini decided to abandon theatrical composition and retire to his home in Paris to recover from nervous exhaustion. Even so, he never stopped writing music: he composed for himself, for Olympe Pélissier–whom he married in 1846 after the death of Isabella Colbran–and {…}
DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Opera Rara’s ‘L’Esule di Roma’

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In 2023, Carlo Rizzi and the British label of Opera Rara resurrected Mercadante’s unjustly neglected “Il Proscritto” – the story of the exile Giorgio Argyll’s return to Scotland and the ensuing, tragic love triangle at the heart of Salvadore Cammarano’s rather unlikely libretto. In 2024, conductor Rizzi turns his attention to another exile: the former tribune Settimio who is the {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Elīna Garanča, Sonya Yoncheva, Nino Machaidze & Lidia Fridman Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week, audiences will get to hear the latest from four of the world’s great divas in very different works. There are two rare bel canto works worth checking out as well. Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben/Gustav Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal {…}
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Lidia Fridman Headlines Konzerthaus Berlin’s World Premiere of Donizetti’s ‘Dalinda’

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The Berliner Operngruppe is set to present the world premiere of Donizetti’s “Dalinda” starting on May 14, 2023 at the Konzerthaus Berlin. The opera will star Lidia Fridman in the title role. She will be joined by Yajie Zhang, Luciano Ganci, Paolo Bordogna, David Ostrek, Andrés Moreno García, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Fermin Basterra, Egor Sergeev, and Kento Uchiyama. Felix Krieger {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Donizetti Opera Festival 2025 Review: Caterina Cornaro

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(Photo: Studio UV – Fondazione Teatro Donizetti) At the beginning of the 1840s, Gaetano Donizetti was the most celebrated Italian opera composer in Europe. After conquering Paris with adaptations of his Italian successes and new works such as “La fille du régiment” and “La favorite,” his life unfolded in constant travel between the continent’s principal musical centers. He composed with {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Review: Cantatas for Soloist, Choir & Orchestra

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(Photo: Amati Bacciardi / ROF 2025) Only at the Rossini Opera Festival can one experience the performance of a true, unpublished jewel by the Swan of Pesaro. Since its founding in 1980, the Festival is held annually in Rossini’s hometown and has played a crucial role in the philological reexamination of many of his works, most of them rarely performed {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Konzerthaus Berlin 2022-23 Review: Dalinda

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This must be a musicologist’s dream: while digging around in musty books in the quiet atmosphere of the library of a music conservatory, to come upon scores by Gaetano Donizetti and realizing that this is not yet another version of “Lucrezia Borgia” (there had been  but, in fact, a different opera. Similar in plot and with music passages strongly reminiscent {…}
Artist of the Week, Special Features

Artist of the Week: Luciano Ganci

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This week the Konzerthaus Berlin is set to world premiere Donizetti’s “Dalinda,” a reworked version of the famed “Lucrezia Borgia.” The opera, which has been restored in a new version by  Eleonora Di Cintio, will star a cast of Bel Canto singers including the acclaimed tenor Luciano Ganci. Ganci will return to the Konzerthaus for the first time in five {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Saioa Hernández, Erwin Schrott & Malin Byström Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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It’s all about the complete opera recording this week. Opera lovers will be able to discover two new interpretations of famed works as well as four rarely performed works. One of the recordings is also a world premiere and will be a discovery for all operatic lovers. Rossini in 1819   Opera Rara will releases an 8-CD boxset Rossini in 1819 {…}

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