Donizetti - Maria di Rohan
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Label: Opera Rara
Cat No: ORC44
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 31st October 2011
Contents
Artists
Krassimira StoyanovaJose Bros
Christopher Purves
Brindley Sherratt
Loic Felix
Enkelejda Shkosa
Graeme Broadbent
Christopher Turner
Riccardo Simonetti
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor
Mark ElderWorks
Maria di RohanArtists
Krassimira StoyanovaJose Bros
Christopher Purves
Brindley Sherratt
Loic Felix
Enkelejda Shkosa
Graeme Broadbent
Christopher Turner
Riccardo Simonetti
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor
Mark ElderAbout
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, a studio recording, comes with a lavishly illustrated book including a complete libretto with an English translation, and a 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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