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30/07/2010
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Imelda de’ Lambertazzi
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SACD Hybrid disc. This SACD is compatible with all CD players.
Opera Rara is proud to have been nominated for a BBC Music Magazine Award for our recording of Donizetti’s Imelda de’ Lambertazzi. If you would like to vote for this recording please visit www.bbcmusicmagazine.com/awards and follow the instructions on screen.
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Cast
Nicole Cabell - Imelda, James Westman - Bonifacio, Massimo Giordano - Labmerto, Frank Lopardo - Orlando, Brindley Sherratt - Ubaldo. Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor - Mark Elder.
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Imelda de’ Lambertazzi immediately precedes Donizetti’s first masterpiece, Anna Bolena, and was written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in the same year (1830). However, its fate was very different and scholars now take the view that the composer’s very concision in his setting of the Romeo and Juliet–like plot, in which Imelda loves Bonifacio, the son of the faction hated by her father Orlando and brother Lamberto, wrong-footed the Neapolitan public. The casting politics of Naples also played a role in the Imelda San Carlo reception and, after a brief stage history, the work unfortunately disappeared for well over a century.
Now, with Opera Rara’s world premiere studio recording of this innovative work, a wider audience can experience one of Donizetti’s most thrilling and dynamic scores. The wonderful young soprano, Nicole Cabell (Cardiff Singer of the World, 2005), takes the title role, surrounded by an impressive cast with Mark Elder conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
The 2CD set, which includes as an Appendix to the recording the aria finale written specifically for Luigia Boccabadati in 1831, comes with a lavishly illustrated book including a complete libretto with an English translation. Jeremy Commons gives a fascinating and detailed account of the story behind the opera.
REVIEW
Extracts from the AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE review (July/August 2008)
’As always with Opera Rara, the presentation is quite fine, lavishly illustrated, with copious program notes on the history and musicology of the work in hand. In his excellent notes Jeremy Commons discusses the opera in detail and how it differs from much of Donizetti’s output and most other operas of the period. His arguments are cogent and persuasive, but even without all this background information the average listener will find Imelda to be a treasure rare. If one is to rank the opera just in terms of its pure musicality - the enjoyability of the music - then it must rank with the best. The title role makes great demands on its singer, not in terms of coloratura but for long musical lines and dramatic output. For this Cabell is a real find. She has a voice of rare beauty and strength, along with dramatic involvement. Lopardo is not noted as a bel canto specialist, but he is an ideal interpreter of Orlando, combining enough agility with a Verdian strength and excelletn diction and dramatic insight. Giordano’s Lamberto is almost as impressive, perhaps too beautifully sung, but much appreciated. Mark Elder, also not noted as a bel canto specialist, finds just the right balance of beauty and strength.’
2 CD boxed set
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