Arias for Rubini
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BELLINI / ROSSINI / DONIZETTI
Arias for Rubini
Juan Diego Florez (tenor) / Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Roberto Abbado
[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 5 September 2007
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'The King of the High Ds' celebrates the first superstar tenor with this disc of beautiful and thrilling arias by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.
Juan Diego Flórez is the tenor for bel canto operas; the first choice for any new production at the world's great opera houses. Here he pays tribute to an extraordinary predecessor who inspired some of his greatest stage roles and became the first 'superstar tenor': Giovanni Battista Rubini.
Like Flórez today, Rubini was loved as much for the touching pathos of his slow singing as for the thrilling power of his fast, high roulades. Roles the two singers have shared include the Prince in Rossini's La Cenerentola, Elvino in Bellini's La sonnambula, Arturo in Bellini's I puritani, Uberto in Rossini's La donna del lago and the title role of Rossini's Otello.
Many of the arias by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti on this new recording with the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome under Roberto Abbado, are unknown gems which show the tremendous range of Flórez's vocal and dramatic art.
Tracks:
BELLINI: Nel furor delle tempeste... per te di vana lacrime (Il Pirata)
ROSSINI: Che intesi!... Vendicar sapro l'offesa (Elisabetta Regina)
DONIZETTI: No, no dabbandonarla... Ma un solo conforto (Marin Faliero)
ROSSINI: Intesi... Se il mio rival (Il Turco in Italia)
BELLINI: Tutti siam... Odo il tuo pianto (Bianca e Fernando)
ROSSINI: Pace non trovo o ciel... Ah come nascondere (La Donna del Lago)
ROSSINI: Non mi lasciare... Corriam! voliam (Guglielmo Tell)
