Mercadante: Francesca da Rimini
Leonor Bonilla (Francesca), Aya Wakizono (Paolo), Merto Süngü (Lanciotto), Antonio Di Matteo (Guido), Larisa Martinez (Isaura), Ivan Ayon Rivas (Guelfo), Chorus of the Transylvania State (chorus)
Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, Fabio Luisi
Fabio Luisi gets excellent playing from his orchestra – warm, tender strings in the Act 1 finale, fine obbligatos – and the chorus sings lustily. And the solo singing is stupendous. Merto Sungu...
Mercadante: Francesca da Rimini
Leonor Bonilla (Francesca), Aya Wakizono (Paolo), Merto Süngü (Lanciotto), Antonio Di Matteo (Guido), Larisa Martinez (Isaura), Ivan Ayon Rivas (Guelfo), Chorus of the Transylvania State (chorus)
Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, Fabio Luisi
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Fabio Luisi gets excellent playing from his orchestra – warm, tender strings in the Act 1 finale, fine obbligatos – and the chorus sings lustily. And the solo singing is stupendous. Merto Sungu...
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- Antonio Di Matteo, Merto Süngü, Leonor Bonilla, Larisa Martinez, Aya Wakizono
- Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia
- Fabio Luisi
- Merto Süngü, Antonio Di Matteo, Larisa Martinez, Ivan Ayon Rivas, Leonor Bonilla, Aya Wakizono
- Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia
- Fabio Luisi
Awards and reviews
May 2017
Fabio Luisi gets excellent playing from his orchestra – warm, tender strings in the Act 1 finale, fine obbligatos – and the chorus sings lustily. And the solo singing is stupendous. Merto Sungu is thrilling, Leonor Bonilla sings with bell-like clarity, with good coloratura and trills, and the Japanese Aya Wakizono is a mezzo in a thousand
18th April 2017
Mercadante himself could hardly have wished for a more accomplished advocacy of his sadly neglected opera.
