Special offer. Casella: La donna serpente
Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) & Arturo Cirillo (stage director)
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Opera, November 2019, Disc of the Month
La donna serpente is a great and relatively unsophisticated joy to watch and to listen to, a kind of commedia dell’arte pop music in sound and vision…The production has been efficiently and...
Special offer. Casella: La donna serpente
Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) & Arturo Cirillo (stage director)
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Awards:
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Opera, November 2019, Disc of the Month
La donna serpente is a great and relatively unsophisticated joy to watch and to listen to, a kind of commedia dell’arte pop music in sound and vision…The production has been efficiently and...
About
Alfredo Casella was one of the ‘Generation of the eighties’ who sought to shake Italian music from its longstanding operatic heritage and the dominance of Puccini. La donna serpente was Casella’s only full-scale opera, its fantastic plot based on Carlo Gozzi’s renowned fairy tale that perpetually alternates between tragedy and comedy, expressed in neo-Classical music that skillfully portrays the sinister and ethereal world of the fairies as well as the intense emotions of the human realm. This production was acclaimed for Arturo Cirillo’s dreamlike setting and Gianandrea Noseda’s pin-point conducting: ‘What energy, what precision! … he delivers the complexity of this score with a disconcerting ease.’ (resmusica.com)
Picture format: HD 16:9
Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS-HD 5.1
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, Japanese, Korean
Region code: A, B, C
No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50)
Contents and tracklist
- Carmela Remigio, Erika Grimaldi, Francesca Sassu, Anna Maria Chiuri, Piero Pretti, Francesco Marsiglia, Marco Filippo Romano, Roberto de Candia
- Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino
- Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) & Arturo Cirillo (stage director)
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Awards and reviews
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OperaNovember 2019Disc of the Month
Awards Issue 2019
La donna serpente is a great and relatively unsophisticated joy to watch and to listen to, a kind of commedia dell’arte pop music in sound and vision…The production has been efficiently and unhysterically filmed and makes for compulsive relaxing viewing. Do give it a try.
November 2019
Casella shows a real aptitude for the genre in this lengthy but lively piece…Cirillo’s poised and artful staging summons up all the colour and imaginative flair required in a theatrical fairy tale…Lighting could be subtler, but generally both performance and production make a good case for an unfairly neglected piece. Among the large cast Carmela Remigio’s strong soprano impressive as the fairy Miranda.
