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Special offer. Rossini: La Gazzetta

Marco Cristarella Orestano (Don Pomponio Storion), Judith Gauthier (Lisetta), Giulio Mastrototaro (Filippo), Vincenzo Bruzzaniti (Don Anselmo), Rossella Bevacqua (Doralice), Michael Spyres (Alberto), Maria Soulis (Madama La Rose), Filippo Polinelli (Monsù Traversen) & Ugo Mahieux (harpsichord...

Rossini: La Gazzetta
Rossini's fizzing two-act comedy La Gazzetta ("The Newspaper") may be well-made Prosecco rather than vintage Krug but its 2001 revival in a new critical edition gave much pleasure at the Garsington...

Gramophone Magazine, January 2011

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Special offer. Rossini: La Gazzetta

Marco Cristarella Orestano (Don Pomponio Storion), Judith Gauthier (Lisetta), Giulio Mastrototaro (Filippo), Vincenzo Bruzzaniti (Don Anselmo), Rossella Bevacqua (Doralice), Michael Spyres (Alberto), Maria Soulis (Madama La Rose), Filippo Polinelli (Monsù Traversen) & Ugo Mahieux (harpsichord...

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Rossini's fizzing two-act comedy La Gazzetta ("The Newspaper") may be well-made Prosecco rather than vintage Krug but its 2001 revival in a new critical edition gave much pleasure at the Garsington...

Gramophone Magazine, January 2011

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Composed between The Barber of Seville (8660027-29) and Cinderella (8660191-92), Rossini’s only Neapolitan comic opera La gazzetta (The Newspaper) was based on a highly popular romantic comedy by Carlo Goldoni, yet has languished until the publication of the new critical edition on which this recording is based.

Now revealed as a delicious entertainment satirising the rôle of the media, it involves two young women, their lovers and fathers, who are beset by the arrival of disguised Quakers and a Turkish masquerade all as the result of an advertisement!

Synopsis; no libretto

Artists

Marco Cristarella Orestano (Don Pomponio Storion), Judith Gauthier (Lisetta), Giulio Mastrototaro (Filippo), Vincenzo Bruzzaniti (Don Anselmo), Rossella Bevacqua (Doralice), Michael Spyres (Alberto), Maria Soulis (Madama La Rose), Filippo Polinelli (Monsù Traversen) & Ugo Mahieux (harpsichord continuo)

Czech Chamber Soloists, Brno & San Pietro a Majella Chorus, Naples, Christopher Franklin

  • Release date: 27th Sep 2010
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Opera Classics
  • Catalogue number: 8660277-78
  • Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Rossini: La Gazzetta
Work length2:09:16
  • Michael Spyres (tenor), Giulio Mastrototaro (baritone), Judith Gauthier (soprano), Marco Cristarella Orestano (bass), Vincenzo Bruzzaniti (bass), Ugo Mahieux (harpsichord), Maria Soulis (mezzo-soprano), Rossella Bevacqua (soprano), Filippo Polinelli (bass), Emanuele Capissi (actor)
  • Czech Chamber Soloists, Brno, Naples San Pietro a Majella Conservatory Chorus
  • Christopher Franklin
  • Recorded: 14, 19, 22 July 2007
  • Recording Venue: Kurhaus, Bad Wildbad, Germany
Sinfonia
Track length7:30
Act I Scene 1: Introduzione: Chi cerca il piacere (Chorus, Alberto, Madama, Traversen)
Track length7:50
Act I Scene 1: Recitativo: Signor Alberto (Madama, Alberto)
Track length0:40
Act I Scene 2: Cavatina: Co' 'sta grazia (Pomponio, Tommasino)
Track length4:55
Act I Scene 2: Recitativo: Mirabile! grazioso (Madame, Pomponio, Alberto, Traversen)
Track length1:32
Act I Scene 2: Quartetto: Mio signore (Traversen, Pomponio, Madama, Alberto)
Track length4:09
Act I Scene 3: Recitativo: Invan lo sciocco (Filippo, Anselmo, Doralice)
Track length1:02
Act I Scene 4: Cavatina: Presto, dico (Lisetta, Filippo)
Track length3:56
Act I Scene 4: Recitativo: Che ti sembra - Scene 5: Vi saluto, Filippo - Scene 6: E' comoda la stanza - Scene 7: Che strano caso - Scene 8: Proviamo un po' col pianto (Lisetta, Filippo, Alberto, Doralice, Pomponio)
Track length6:18
Act I Scene 8: Quintetto: Questo (Lisetta, Alberto, Filippo, Doralice, Pomponio)
Track length5:50
Act I Scene 9: Recitativo: Tommasi, che ne dici? (Pomponio, Madama, Doralice, Tommasino)
Track length1:45
Act I Scene 9: Aria: Ah, se spiegar potessi (Doralice)
Track length3:41
Act I Scene 10: Recitativo: Animo, fuori quella - Scene 11: Che, ammogliato Filippo? (Filippo, Pomponio, Madama, Lisetta)
Track length3:42
Act I Scene 11: Duetto: Pe' da' gusto a la signora (Pomponio, Lisetta)
Track length6:10
Act I Scene 12: Recitativo: Stiamo a guardar (Madama, Traversen, Anselmo, Doralice, Alberto)
Track length0:32
Act I Scene 13: Finale 1: Bondi te pater (Filippo, Chorus, Pomponio, Lisetta, Alberto, Doralice)
Track length4:45
Act I Scene 13: Guisto ciel (Lisetta, Alberto, Filippo, Pomponio, Doralice, Madama, Traversen, Chorus)
Track length5:19
Act II Scene 1: Recitativo: Ah, ah! Che scena! (Madama, Traversen, Anselmo, Doralice)
Track length1:20
Act II Scene 1: Aria: Sempre in amore (Madama)
Track length3:52
Act II Scene 2: Recitativo: Oh, voi qui siete - Scene 3: Non ancora ho potuto (Traversen, Alberto, Filippo, Lisetta)
Track length1:57
Act II Scene 3: Duetto: In bosco ombroso (Filippo, Lisetta)
Track length7:09
Act II Scene 4: Recitativo: Chi creder mai poteva (Alberto)
Track length2:18
Act II Scene 4: Aria: O lusinghiero amor (Alberto)
Track length5:44
Act II Scene 5: Recitativo: Tutto sta ben disposto a maraviglia - Scene 6: Ad un mio pari un locandier disfida? - Scene 7: A che coll'armi (Filippo, Alberto, Pomponio)
Track length3:07
Act II Scene 7: Terzetto: Primmo nfra voi coll'armi (Pomponio, Alberto, Filippo)
Track length7:43
Act II Scene 8: Recitativo: Fatemi, signorina - Scene 9: Presto, alo (Lisetta, Doralice, Pomponio, Madama)
Track length1:20
Act II Scene 9: Recitativo: Ove son? perche torno (Lisetta)
Track length1:12
Act II Scene 9: Aria: Eroi piu galanti (Lisetta, Pomponio, Doralice, Madama)
Track length5:42
Act II Scene 10: Recitativo: Si, vada a incarrozzarsi (Filippo, Pomponio)
Track length1:17
Act II Scene 10: Aria: Quando la fama altera (Filippo)
Track length4:58
Act II Scene 11: Chorus: Amor la danza mova (Chorus)
Track length0:49
Act II Scene 11: Recitativo: Eccome cca; la primma vota e chesta (Pomponio)
Track length0:45
Act II Scene 11: Quintetto: Oh vedite ch'accidente! (Pomponio, Alberto, Doralice, Filippo, Lisetta)
Track length7:24
Act II Scene 12: Recitativo: Hai trovata mia figlia? (Anselmo, Traversen, Pomponio, Madama)
Track length0:39
Act II Scene 12: Finale 2: Caro padre (All, Chorus)
Track length2:24

Awards and reviews

January 2011

Rossini's fizzing two-act comedy La Gazzetta ("The Newspaper") may be well-made Prosecco rather than vintage Krug but its 2001 revival in a new critical edition gave much pleasure at the Garsington and Pesaro festivals...All three [principals] are strongly cast in this vividly conducted live "Rossini in Wildbad" performance.

Opera Now September/October 2011

A completely irresistable performance, from the Wildbad Festival, makes this much more than something just for Rossini completists...It's true that there's much here we've heard elsewhere...but also a good deal of original stuff including a brilliant quarrel duet...Franklin pilots the Czech Chamber Soloists through a fizzing reading, elegant, beautifully paced and tremendously exciting; the ensemble is highly attractive, individually and collectively
5 out of 5 stars
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