Friday, May 1, 2015

Sergio A. Mims: Kenneth Tarver sings the lead tenor role of Giannetto in Naxos' new recording of Rossini's opera 'La Gazza Ladra' which will be released next week.

La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
Naxos 8.660369-71 (2015)

Kenneth Tarver

Sergio A. Mims writes:

I just happened to come across this but tenor Kenneth Tarver sings the lead tenor role of Giannetto in Naxos' new recording of Rossini's opera La Gazza Ladra (the Thieving Magpie) which will be released next week.

Sergio


ROSSINI, G.: La gazza ladra [Opera] (Moreno, Tarver, Regazzo, Praticò, Brno Classica Chamber Choir, Virtuosi Brunensis, Zedda)


La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) marked a culmination of the convergence of serious and comic elements in Rossini’s work. The result is an ideal hybrid: a tragic opera with a happy ending that rises to the status of true opera seria. With its outstanding dramatic and musical qualities it remains one of Rossini’s greatest and most successful operas, a constant presence in the repertoire since its triumphant 1817 première in Milan. This performance is conducted by Alberto Zedda, who made his conducting début in 1956, produced the first critical edition of La gazza ladra, and is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the operas of Rossini.


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