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Rossini: Aureliano In Palmira / Crutchfield, Spyres, Pratt, Belkina

Rossini / Spyres / Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini Release Date: 07/31/2015
Label: Arthaus Musik Catalog #: 109073
Composer:  Gioachino Rossini Performer:  Lena Belkina ,  Michael Spyres ,  Jessica Pratt ,  Raffaella Lupinacci  ...  Conductor:  Will Crutchfield Orchestra/Ensemble:  Gioachino Rossini Symphony Orchestra Number of Discs: 2

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Aureliano in Palmira celebrated its first première on 26 December 1813 at the Scala in Milan. Soon afterwards the work was played in different theatres all over Europe. Nevertheless Rossini's piece fell into oblivion more and more compared to the great competitors like "Tancredi" or the "Barber of Seville" for which Rossini recycled musical parts of "Aureliano". But the last few years have seen ambitions arise to play this work about love, war, jealousy, loyalty and magnanimity more frequently. The direction in Pesaro was in the proven hands of the famous film director Mario Martone. Conductor Will Read more Crutchield contributes to the successful performance of the newly edited "Aureliano in Palmira" and masterfully directs the Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini. Michael Spyres as Aureliano "showed immediately that his tenor voice with marvellous top notes has not only flexibility and agility, but also enough body, to provide the Roman emperor great vocal authority." Opernglas
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