Rossini - Opera Arias | Naive V5221

Rossini - Opera Arias

Label: Naive

Cat No: V5221

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 18th April 2011

Contents

Works

Rossini, Gioachino

Guillaume Tell
» Ils s'eloignent enfin
L'Assedio di Corinto
» L'ora fatal s'appressa ... Giusto ciel!
La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
» Nacqui all' affanno ...Non piu mesta
» Sinfonia
La donna del lago
» Tanti affetti in tal momento (Act 2)
Otello
» Assisa a' pie d'un salice
Semiramide
» Bel raggio lusinghier (Act 1)

Artists

Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Sinfonia Varsovia

Conductor

Marc Minkowski

Works

Rossini, Gioachino

Guillaume Tell
» Ils s'eloignent enfin
L'Assedio di Corinto
» L'ora fatal s'appressa ... Giusto ciel!
La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
» Nacqui all' affanno ...Non piu mesta
» Sinfonia
La donna del lago
» Tanti affetti in tal momento (Act 2)
Otello
» Assisa a' pie d'un salice
Semiramide
» Bel raggio lusinghier (Act 1)

Artists

Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Sinfonia Varsovia

Conductor

Marc Minkowski

About

A star is born! The Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva is the vocal revelation that everyone is talking about. Still only 21, a protégée of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and the winner of several major awards, Lezhneva makes her solo recital debut with a programme of arias by Rossini, a composer of whom is particularly fond. She is accompanied by the Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by its new artistic director Marc Minkowski.

In 2007 Julia Lezhneva won the prestigious Elena Obraztsova International Competition for Young Opera Singers in St Petersburg, for which the judges included Teresa Berganza, Christa Ludwig and Eva Marton. She has sung opposite Juan Diego Flórez at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and made her UK debut, aged 19, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko, also performing Rossini. Her London debut, introduced by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, came at the 2010 Classical Brit Awards singing Elena’s Final Rondo from Rossini’s La Donna del Lago in the Royal Albert Hall.

In October 2010 she confirmed her status as one of the world’s most exciting talents by winning the First International Opera Competition held at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris. Her performance in the recent Naïve recording of Vivaldi’s opera Ottone in Villa, conducted by Giovanni Antonini, has been praised to the skies by the international press.

Her debut solo concerts at the 2010 Salzburg Festival with the Mozarteum Orchestra and Marc Minkowski likewise achieved extraordinary success. Minkowski has followed the young singer’s career closely - it was he who invited her in 2009 to take part in Bach’s B minor Mass, her first recording. Despite her youth, Julia Lezhneva has a huge and extremely varied repertoire, ranging from the Baroque and bel canto styles to Romantic and contemporary music.

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