Jonas Kaufmann, Lucas Meachem & Juan Francisco Gatell Lead New CD/DVD Releases
By Francisco SalazarThis week, four complete operas, as well as an oratorio recording, will be available to stream. Here is a look.
Otello
After long delays, Sony Classical will finally release the full studio recording of Verdi’s masterpiece opera with Jonas Kaufmann singing the title role and Antonio Pappano conducting the Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Soprano Federica Lombardi sings her role debut as Desdemona and baritone Carlos Álvarez appears as Iago. The recording marks the latest collaboration between Pappano and Kaufmann who previously recorded “Aida” together; the duo also collaborated on Kaufmann’s first “Otello.”
OperaWire raved about the tenor’s interpretation when he first debuted it stating, “Jonas Kaufmann cements his legacy as one of history’s great Otellos.” And for this upcoming recording OperaWire noted, “Jonas Kaufmann & Carlos Alvarez Lead Nuanced Recording of Verdi Masterpiece”
L’Morte d’Orfeo
Pierre Audi’s 2018 of Stefano Landi’s 1619 retelling of the classic Greek Orpheus myth gets released on DVD by Naxos. Christophe Rousset leads Les Talens Lyriques in a production that stars Juan Francisco Gatell, Cecilia Molinari, Gaia Petrone, Magdalena Pluta, and Kacper Szelążek. The production was Audi’s farewell to the Dutch National Opera after two decades at its artistic helm.
Violanta
Korngold’s one-act opera receives its first video outing, courtesy of Dynamic. The work, which will also be released on audio, received its American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1927. This new release comes from the Teatro Regio di Torino in a production from January 2020. Pier Luigi Pizzi directs the work with a cast that includes Annemarie Kremer, Michael Kupfer-Radecky, and Norman Reinhardt.
St. Luke’s Passion
A performance of Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion from the Salzburg Festival 2018 gets a release. Kent Nagano leads the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Warsaw Boys’ Choir, the Kraków Philharmonic Choir, soprano Sarah Wegener, baritone Lucas Meachem, bass Matthew Rose, and, as the Evangelist, speaker Sławomir Holland.
Don César de Bazan
The 1888 revised version of Massenet’s first completed full-length opera gets a new recording. Mathieu Romano leads the Ensemble Aedes and the Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes with a cast that includes Laurent Naouri in the title role as well as Thomas Bettinger, Marion Lebègue, Christian Helmer, and Elsa Dreisig.
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