Special offer. Bertoni, F: Orfeo
Vivica Genaux (Orfeo), Jan Petryka (Hymen), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (Euridice)
Ensemble Lorenzo Da Ponte, Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara, Roberto Zarpellon
Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux channels the grandeur that made Guadagni famous, to which she brings a brooding intensity and velvety vocal timbres in what is altogether a truly moving performance....
Special offer. Bertoni, F: Orfeo
Vivica Genaux (Orfeo), Jan Petryka (Hymen), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (Euridice)
Ensemble Lorenzo Da Ponte, Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara, Roberto Zarpellon
Purchase product
Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux channels the grandeur that made Guadagni famous, to which she brings a brooding intensity and velvety vocal timbres in what is altogether a truly moving performance....
About
The 70 operas by Ferdinando Bertoni (1725 - 1813) are almost all forgotten, except for his Orfeo. The opera is based on the same libretto as Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, and was also composed for the same castrato, Gaetano Guadagni. Unlike Gluck however Bertoni created a true-opera scenario, which celebrates its rediscovery here in this recording with Vivica Genaux.
Contents and tracklist
- Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte
- Roberto Zarpellon
- Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte, Roberto Zarpellon and Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara, Vivica Genaux, Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte, Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara and Roberto Zarpellon, Vivica Genaux, Jan Petryka
- Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte, Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara
- Roberto Zarpellon
- Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte, Roberto Zarpellon and Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara, Vivica Genaux, Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte, Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara and Roberto Zarpellon, Vivica Genaux
- Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte, Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara
- Roberto Zarpellon
- Vivica Genaux, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Jan Petryka, Vivica Genaux, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte, Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara, Jan Petryka and Roberto Zarpellon
- Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte, Coro Accademia di Santo Spirito, Ferrara
- Roberto Zarpellon
Awards and reviews
July 2016
Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux channels the grandeur that made Guadagni famous, to which she brings a brooding intensity and velvety vocal timbres in what is altogether a truly moving performance. Matching her is soprano Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli as Euridice, who brings off straight tones at top register, heightening the tensions whipped up by conductor Roberto Zarpellon
April 2016
With her intense, darkly flaring tone and dramatic involvement, the Alaskan mezzo Vivica Genaux is consistently compelling, whether in elegy, entreaty or her anguished Act 3 exchanges with Euridice…Francesca Lombardi-Mazzulli is, rightly, no shrinking violet as Euridice. Vivid with her words, she uses the bright edge on her tone in a notably fiery account of her aria…Roberto Zarpellon draws lively and elegantly shaped playing from the Ferrara period band
