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La figlia dell’aria
[…] an exclusive recording contract with Sony. Rossini!, her latest CD, includes some of the most demanding music the Swan of Pesaro wrote for a soprano. Peretyako wisely avoids for the most part the heavy roles Rossini composed for his wife Isabella Colbran, which tend to lie in a low tessitura, and focuses on on the higher-lying parts he wrote for full-fledged sopranos such as Laure Cinti (Folleville’s aria in Il viaggio a Reims) Francesca Maffei Festa (Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia), Elisabetta Manfredini (Amenaide in Tancredi) and Caterina Liparini (the protagonist of Matilde di Shabran.) The only Colbran aria she attempts is “Bel raggio lusinghier,” which, divorced from its context, has since the mid-nineteenth century become a vehicle for nightingales, even after the opera itself had vanished from the repertoire. It includes a single Giuditta Pasta aria, the “Improvviso” from Il viaggio a Reims, which however does not […]
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