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MOZART. WA: COSI FAN TUTTE (SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) Cosi Fan Tutte K. 588 Felicity Lott, Nuccia Focile, Marie McLaughlin, Jerry Hadley, Alessandro Corbelli & Gilles Cachemaille Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras 3CDs 1994 Flac files A rather under appreciated recording of Cosi in my opinion. Enjoy.
2016-01-20 21:44:20
From left : Nuccia Focile , Shenyang and Morgan Smith in Seattle Opera's "The Marriage of Figaro." Photo by Tuffer Nuccia Focile , Morgan Smith and Karin Mushegain , in Seattle Opera's "The Marriage of Figaro."
2014-05-16 14:00:47
The beautiful rooms are empty
[…] old pictures of opera stars in the recording studios of Rome in the dead of summer wearing mink stoles and wool suits. In all fairness to de Niese, she’s in good company with regards to shrill, unlikable Norinas on video. Eva Mei, Isabel Rey and Alda Noni all have sharp, glass-shattering voices and charmless personas. Anna Netrebko has a lush voice and a likable, bubbly persona but is rather approximate with the coloratura. Only Nuccia Focile combines enough charm with a lovely voice to make a genuinely likable, well-sung Norina on the DVD from La Scala, with Ferrucio Furlanetto, Lucio Gallo, Gregory Kunde and Riccardo Muti leading the band. This new effort from Glyndebourne is for completists only. Or Alek Shrader fans.
2013-05-12 07:30:00
[…] on the estate and was clearly inspired by the beauty and history around him and by the quality of Origo's writing. "I wanted to get the feel of the landscape in the music," he told me. "I wanted to try to describe how the rhythm of life was cruelly interrupted, and yet out of all that destruction and hurt came a message of deep humanity and renewal."The piece, given its premiere by the soprano Nuccia Focile and young players from the UCLA Camarades, tells of Origo's struggles to regenerate the estate's exhausted farmland in the 1930s, her desire to establish her now famous garden, the privations of war and the personal tragedy of losing a son to meningitis – a passage written as a duet for voice and cello, poignantly played on this occasion by her grandson, the cellist Antonio Lysy, who also runs the festival.He has great vision for […]
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