Donizetti: La Favorite (complete opera recorded in 2022)
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Favorite (complete opera recorded in 2022)
Annalisa Stroppa (mezzo-soprano) Javier Camarena (tenor) Florian Sempey (baritone) Evgeny Stavinsky (bass) / Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizz
[ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 19 April 2024
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Written for the Opéra in Paris, Gaetano Donizetti's La Favorite contains some of his most famously
enthralling arias. While its much-reduced Italian version has continued in popularity, this superb
production from the Donizetti Opera Festival in his birthplace of Bergamo returns the work to its rarely
heard 1840 French grand opera origins. Set in 14th century Spain, the tragic story is of a pious novice
(Fernand) who falls in love with a noble lady and abandons the cloister, meeting her in secret. He becomes a war hero and asks the King for her hand, later finding out to his horror that she is Léonor de Guzman, the King's beloved mistress.
Recorded: 15 and 18 November 2022 during the Donizetti Opera Festival, Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, Italy
