Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
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Composer: Gioachino RossiniConductor: Riccardo Frizza
Orchestra: Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia
Performer: Annick Massis
Performer: Juan Diego Florez
Performer: Marco Vinco
Performer: Bruno de Simone
Performer: Hadar Halevy
Performer: Carlo Lepore
Performer: Camera di coro di Praga
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Sinfonia
- Zitti: nessun qui v'�¨
- Chi vi guida a queste mura?
- Se viene il Cerbero
- Vanno via come il vento!
- Intanto Armenia 'nfra l'ombrose piante
- Ma mo sto castellano
- Ah! chitarella mia! dolce lusinga dell'appetito mio
- Alma rea! Perch�© t'involi?
- Bella �¨ l'ira in mezzo al campo
- Dottor, guarda che ceffo?
- Di te no, non mi fido
- Prence, Matilde, giovanetta figlia
- Eccomi, e ognor lo stesso
- Piange il mio ciglio, �¨ vero
- D'un tenero padre
- Se fra i paterni amplessi
- Di capricci, di smorfiette
- Ah! di veder gi� parmi
- Si, vezzosa Matilde, a voi confido
- Questa �¨ la Dea? Che aria!
- Che strepito �¨ mai questo?
- Dallo stupore oppresso
- Signor, me n'vado o resto?
- Ch'io fugga ha gi� timore
- Alla Contessa d'Arco un tale oltraggio!
- Ah! Capisco: non parlate
- Cara, quel tuo sembiante
- Piacere ugual gli dei
- Qual fragor? - Signor!
- Smarrito, dubbioso, al suono di guerra sospiro
- Altezza guardate - Venir io lasciate
- Oh come mai quest'anima sfavilla in un momento!
- Vanne, pugna: trionfante ritorna
- Basta nfi a c� : ho scritto meza gloria delle mie guapparie
- Di Corradino il nome per ogni suoi rimbomba
- Le penne de i poeti so spade assai diverse
- Dove, o misero padre, e quando speri pi�¹ il tuo figlio abbracciar?
- Sazia tu fossi alfine revolubil Fortuna!
- Ah! perch�©, perch�© la morte non ascolta i pianti miei?
- Ah! Se ancora un'altra volla el ritorna al dolce amplesso
- Pur ti ragiunsi al fin...-Cosa pretendi? - Teco battermi ancor
- E palese il tradimento - Mente il foglio, o ad arte �¨ scritto
- Perfida invan tu piangi: �¨ finto quell'affanno
- Fra quattro armigeri immantimente
- Piet� ! Mi parli invano. Vendicato sar�²
- Mandare a morte quella meschina? Che crudelta!
- Andate a'vostri alberghi
- Da cento smanie, e cento sento straziarmi il cor
- Sedotto dall'inganno
- O ciel! chi pu�² resistere
- Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
- Matilde, Ebben?
- Ami alfine? E chi non ama?
- Non �¨ vero?
- Tace la tromba altera
Music reviews of Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
Music Review: A jewel in Rossini's crown
Rating: 5 Stars
This recording of MATILDE DI SHABRAN (Pesaro 2004) being my 38th Rossini opera on disc (only RICCIARDO & ZORAIDE is missing!), I can't recommend it highly enough, not least to rare opera hunters. Hearing the set over and over again for more than a week now, I purchased it primarily for Massis, whose unforgettable Countess Adele I saw three times in Glyndebourne's LE COMTE ORY 10 years ago and still enjoy endlessly on DVD. She and Florez (my first disc of either artist) nail their fiendish notes disarmingly, as if they're doing nothing less than breathing like the rest of mankind, though many times you'd wonder if they breathe at all! The supporting (obscure but generally secure) cast - together with a superb chorus and orchestra - complement the well-matched athletic couple to near perfection. Only the fade-out of the end of set pieces - also true of Abbado's IL VIAGGIO A REIMS recordings - is slightly annoying: I sense that we lose a second or two evidently left out to preclude applause, which could have been abridged (I can't believe that the audience - whose applause here is confined to the end of each of the opera's two acts - responded silently to those breathtaking numbers, unless they were gagged and bound!). No need to hesitate: the memorable score is no less inspired than IL VIAGGIO and ORY (my favourite Rossini comedies), the extended ensembles (in particular) - which are nothing short of orgasmic - showing the composer at his most regal. It would be a crime if Decca didn't tape this for DVD release: if it weren't recorded, I hope the ROH will do us the favour of recording its production next year (either a new Pesaro staging or a revival of the 2004 production, but I'm sure with Florez). If you seriously think that Rossini is at his best only in IL BARBIERE and CENERENTOLA (neither is a favourite of mine), you'll realize how wrong you were upon discovering MATILDE. An irresistible, charming work from the king of dramatic melody.
Description of Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
Juan Diego Florez burst onto the international opera scene in 1996 when he replaced an indisposed singer in the role of Corradino in Rossini's Matilde di Shabran at the Pesaro Rossini Festival. Since then the world-famous opera festival in Rossini's home town has been Juan Diego's home most summers. In 2004 Florez returned to Pesaro to sing the role of Corradino--the brutal, woman-hating Duke--this time with acclaimed French bel canto star Annick Massis in the title role, and once again the critics were unanimous in their acclaim "In 1996 a young tenor named Juan Diego Florez sang Corradino in Pesaro and soon had an international career. He is back in superb form, hurling coloratura passages as if they were instruments of war. Financial Times, London Gioachino Rossini's opera was first performed in Rome in 1821, when it was conducted by the famous violinist Paganini. Set in medieval Spain, Matilde di Shabran tells of the tyrant Corradino (Florez) who takes pity on Matilde (Massis), the orphaned daughter of one of his comrades. After she softens the heart of the Duke, she gives her heart to one of his prisoners Edoardo (a role for mezzo-soprano). The brutal Duke's response is to order that she be pushed over the edge of a ravine! It is surely the highly complex plot that has kept Matilde di Shabran off the list of frequently performed Rossini operas, but it certainly contains many glorious examples of Rossini at his best, in florid solos, toe-tapping ensembles, and his trademark `tutti' crescendos. This 3 CD complete opera unites Florez and Massis with the Prague Chamber Choir and the Prquesta Sinfonicade Galica, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.Premiered in 1821, Matilde di Shabran was Rossini's 32nd opera. It is a semi-serious work, with a plot that concerns a woman-hating, militaristic, hypochondriacal Lord (Corradino) whose doctor (Aliprando) tries to get him to fall in love with his ward, the sharp-witted Matilde, in order to make him happy. There are buffo characters and Corradino, after falling for Matilde, almost has her executed when he's duped by a Countess who loves him into thinking Matilde loves another. But a comic character, Isidoro, the court poet, saves the day and all ends happily. Of course, the music's the thing, and this opera is filled with glorious, complex ensembles - one each of a quartet, quintet, sestet and octet - and the vocal writing is perilously difficult and florid. Superstar tenor Juan Diego Florez and soprano Annick Massis dispatch the endless roulades, long-breathed lines and frequent excursion up to high Bs, Cs and C sharps with the greatest of ease and expressivity. There's not a weak link in or a non-Rossinian technique from the cast. Conductor Riccardo Frizza leads a tight, energetic performance; the sound is excellent. This great fun and highly recommended. --Robert Levine
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