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Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment & Sir Mark Elder - Donizetti: Maria di Rohan (2019) [Hi-Res]

Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment & Sir Mark Elder - Donizetti: Maria di Rohan (2019) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Donizetti: Maria di Rohan
  • Year Of Release: 2012/2019
  • Label: Opera Rara
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz
  • Total Time: 01:56:45
  • Total Size: 518 / 1065 mb
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Tracklist
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01. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Sinfonia
02. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Allegro Introduction (Chorus)
03. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Ed e ver (Ladies, Lords, All)
04. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Non seguite la caccia (Chalais)
05. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Quando il cor da lei piagato (Chalais)
06. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Conte! (Maria, Chalais)
07. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Cupa fatal mestizia (Maria)
08. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Contessa! In tanto giubilo (Visconte, Ladies, Maria Fiesque, Lords, Courtiers)
09. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Cavalieri! (Gondi, Visconte, Courtiers, Fiesque, The Others, Chalais)
10. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Ma che! turbato sei (Chevreuse, Chalais, Visconte, Gondi)
11. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Le dance (Maria, Fiesque, Gondi, Chevreuse, Courtiers, The Others, Chalais)
12. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 1 Conte! (Visconte, Chalais, Fiesque, Chevreuse, Maria, Gondi, Courtiers)
13. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 2 Nel fragor della festa, ahi! (Chalais, Aubry)
14. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 2 Donna, che il volto d'una larva cinge (Aubry)
15. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 2 Ch'ei dorma (Chevreuse, Chalais)
16. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 2 Sedete ... (Chalais, Maria)
17. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 3 Ti rassicura! ... (Chevreuse, Chalais, Maria)
18. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 3 Havvi un Dio che in sua clemenza (Maria)
19. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 3 Parti brev'ora, ed egli fia lontano (Chevreuse, Maria, Famigliare)
20. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 3 Bella e di sol vestita (Chevreuse)
21. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 3 Ebben (Fiesque, Chevreuse)
22. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 3 Al supplizio fui tratta (Maria, Chevreuse)
23. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Act 3 Finale (Chevreuse, Maria, Chalais)
24. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Appendix Per non istrare in ozio (Gondi, Visconte, Fiesque, Chorus)
25. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Appendix Lascia (Gondi, Chalais)
26. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Appendix Se non cedi (Maria, Chalais, Visconte)
27. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Appendix Ah cosi tanto affetto (Maria, Chalais)
28. Donizetti Maria di Rohan, Appendix Non seguite la caccia (Chalais)


According to the late Donizetti expert William Ashbrook, Maria di Rohan (1843) is the composer‘s ‘tautest, most melodramatic opera’ and shows him ‘in complete control of his musico-dramatic goals’. The work was first performed in Vienna, but Donizetti revised it for its Paris premiere, changing the tenor role of Armando di Gondì to mezzo-soprano. Working from the new critical edition of the score, with the period-instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Mark Elder, Opera Rara has recorded the original Vienna (June 1843) two tenor version as well as some of the appendices from the Paris (November 1843) revision, including those written for the mezzo-soprano, sung here by Enkelejda Shkosa. Set during the time of Cardinal Richelieu, the opera focuses on Maria (Krassimira Stoyanova), secretly married to Riccardo, Duke of Chevreuse (José Bros), who has wounded the Cardinal’s nephew in a duel. In seeking assistance for his plight from Enrico, Count of Chalais (Christopher Purves), Maria finds her former love for the latter revived. The rest of the opera centres on how this intricate and explosive triangle of relationships plays out. As a handful of recent productions have demonstrated, the result shows Donizetti rightly claiming his position as one of the nineteenth-century’s greatest musical dramatists.

The 2CD set, studio recording, comes with a lavishly illustrated book including a complete libretto with an English translation, comprehensive article and synopsis by the eminent 19th-century musical scholar, Jeremy Commons.

"Krassimira Stoyanova, radiant and impassioned, beautifully captured Maria's ambivalent glamour and the private hell beneath her cool allure" Tim Ashley, The Guardian (reviewing the concert performance at the Royal Festival Hall, November 2009)




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