Il Trovatore (Complete opera recorded live in concert 2000)
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Il Trovatore (Complete opera recorded live in concert 2000)
Salvatore Licitra, Barbara Frittoli, Leo Nucci, Violeta Urmana / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
[ Sony Opera House / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 1 February 2012
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"Barbara Frittoli, like her conductor, has looked at the music anew and come up with a reading wholly eschewing prima donna antics and concentrating on the portrayal of Leonora's predicament. Quite apart from the tonal beauty, fine line and well-nigh faultless technique evinced in both her arias, she sings them from within, the first dreamily, the second as a reposeful monologue." (Gramophone)
"Barbara Frittoli, like her conductor, has looked at the music anew and come up with a reading wholly eschewing prima donna antics and concentrating on the portrayal of Leonora's predicament. Quite apart from the tonal beauty, fine line and well-nigh faultless technique evinced in both her arias, she sings them from within, the first dreamily, the second as a reposeful monologue. In duet as in ensembles she is just as musical and eloquent, and she crowns her performance with as affecting an account of her dying phrases in the final scene as one could wish to hear.
Violeta Urmana's superbly voiced Azucena makes one regret that she is reportedly forsaking the mezzo for the soprano range. Her vibrant tone and intense delivery are the work of an intelligent artist who at the same time can entirely identify with the character she is portraying within the musical verities. The Act 1 solos have power and panache, the terror of Act 3, when the gypsy is caught, is finely managed, and the musings in the final scene softly and sensitively intoned."
(Gramophone)
