Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
Andrea Bocelli (Andrea Chénier), Violeta Urmana (Maddalena), Lucio Gallo (Carlo Gérard), Elena Obraztsova (Madelon)
Orchestra e Coro Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Verdi, Marco Armiliato
Violeta Urmana is a quality Maddalena, Lucio Gallo a stalwart Carlo
Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
Andrea Bocelli (Andrea Chénier), Violeta Urmana (Maddalena), Lucio Gallo (Carlo Gérard), Elena Obraztsova (Madelon)
Orchestra e Coro Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Verdi, Marco Armiliato
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Violeta Urmana is a quality Maddalena, Lucio Gallo a stalwart Carlo
About
Andrea Bocelli stars in the title role of Giordano's romantic and passionate opera of life and death, set during the French Revolution.
Andrea Chénier, a historical figure and poet who lost his life to the French Revolution, gave Giordano and his librettist, Illica, inspiration for an opera of action, intrigue, and betrayal that touches and thrills.
The score and text beautifully underscore the triumph of love over death when Chénier and his beloved make their final exit to the guillotine. Accompanied by some of the most stirring music of the Italian repertoire, their closing duet is among opera's greatest moments.
This new recording partners Andrea Bocelli with the aristocratic soprano of Violeta Urmana, who has sung the role of Maddalena at the world's leading houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Contents and tracklist
- Lucio Gallo (baritone), Violeta Urmana (soprano), Cinzia de Mola (mezzo-soprano), Roberto Accurso (tenor), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Alessandro Busi (baritone), Stella Grigorian (mezzo-soprano), Simone Alberghini (bass-baritone), Gregory Bonfatti (tenor), Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano), Gianfranco Montresor (baritone), Ezio Maria Tisi (tenor)
- Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
- Marco Armiliato
- Recorded: 2007-07-11
- Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan
Awards and reviews
October 2010
Violeta Urmana is a quality Maddalena, Lucio Gallo a stalwart Carlo
July 2010
[Bocelli's] voice is real enough and unmistakably personal in timbre; he also sings with some emotional commitment, enunciating clearly and (often) phrasing imaginatively...[Urmana] has both warmth and authority: there is a reserve of aristocratic grandeur in her most tender utterances.
12th August 2010
Violeta Urmana is a high-voltage Maddalena, and there's a superb Gérard from Lucio Gallo...Marco Armiliato is the exciting conductor, really bringing home the anguish of lives caught at a crisis point of history which ultimately lies beyond individual comprehension.
