Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
Micaela Carosi (Adriana), Marcelo Álvarez (Maurizio), Marianne Cornetti (Principessa de Bouillon) & Alfonso Antoniozzi (Michonnet)
Teatro Regio Torino, Renato Palumbo (conductor) & Lorenzo Mariani (director)
the outstanding impression is of a mostly Italian cast who deliver the goods with gutsy native confidence...As Adriana the famous actress [Carosi] decaims her lines in high melodramatic style...[Cornetti]...
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
Micaela Carosi (Adriana), Marcelo Álvarez (Maurizio), Marianne Cornetti (Principessa de Bouillon) & Alfonso Antoniozzi (Michonnet)
Teatro Regio Torino, Renato Palumbo (conductor) & Lorenzo Mariani (director)
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the outstanding impression is of a mostly Italian cast who deliver the goods with gutsy native confidence...As Adriana the famous actress [Carosi] decaims her lines in high melodramatic style...[Cornetti]...
About
Adriana Lecouvreur is the opera that brought definitive international fame to Francesco Cilea.
This CD was recorded at a production from the Teatro Regio Di Torino in 2009 that featured a first-rate cast; the Princess de Bouillon is sung by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most in-demand representatives of her vocal category. Opposite her, in the role of Adriana, is a soprano who as a Verdi and verismo specialist also appears regularly at all the major international opera houses, Micaela Carosi. The role of Maurizio is sung by the world-class tenor Marcelo Álvarez. Conductor Renato Palumbo is very much at home with Italian Romantic repertoire which makes him the ideal conductor for Cilea’s operatic masterpiece.
Contents and tracklist
- Micaela Carosi, Marcelo Álvarez, Marianne Cornetti, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Simone del Savio, Luca Casalin, Antonella De Chiara, Patrizia Porzio, Carlo Bosi, Diego Matamoros
- Torino Teatro Regio Chorus, Torino Teatro Regio Orchestra
- Renato Palumbo
Awards and reviews
July 2011
the outstanding impression is of a mostly Italian cast who deliver the goods with gutsy native confidence...As Adriana the famous actress [Carosi] decaims her lines in high melodramatic style...[Cornetti] is armed with chest notes like torpedoes which she fires off untiring aplomb...[Palumbo] is rumbustious in the genre scenes where Cilea starts to sound like Massenet.
May 2011
[Carosi's] voice is a genuine spinto, with the essential meaty middle and basic tonal warmth that Cilea's unfailingly appealing, exceedingly womanly heroine requires...Álvarez [gives] his all as Maurizio...[Cornetti] has the right instrument for the Princess di Bouillon...Palumbo displays the good taste that any fine conductor must exercise in keeping the excessive lushness of Cilea's score within reasonable bounds.
