Charles Castronovo, Nadine Sierra & Bryn Terfel Highlight New CD/DVD Releases
By Francisco SalazarWelcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world.
This week audiences get to hear a new album by one of opera’s leading tenors and watch a video of one of Donizetti’s comic gems featuring a leading soprano and a superstar bass-baritone.
Voices from the Other Side
The new work from composer Margi Griebling-Haigh is a collection of impressionistic chamber works and the new album features an octet of cellists joined by soprano Gabrielle Haigh.
Noble Renegades
Charles Castronovo dedicates his recent album to Verdi conducted by Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra.
Donizetti: L’Elisir d’amore
Opus Arte releases the Royal Opera House’s production of Donizetti’s classic opera. The production by Laurent Pelly stars Nadine Sierra, Liparit Avetisyan, Boris Pinkhasovich, Bryn Terfel, and Sarah Dufresne. Sesto Quatrini conducts the performance.
OperaWire Raved about Terfel stating, ” Bryn Terfel let loose Dulcamara’s reins with enviable revelry.”
Gesualdo: Silenzio Mio
The Collegium Vocale Gent and its founder, Philippe Herreweghe, continue their recordings of the works of Carlo Gesualdo. This new album “Silenzio Mio” contains the Fourth Book of Madrigals, published in 1596.
