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