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Donizetti: Il Paria

Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), René Barbera (Idamore), Misha Kiria (Zarete), Marko Mimica (Akebare), Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder

Donizetti: Il Paria

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Barbera proves up to the task, effortlessly pinging out top C sharps with abandon. With his generous, pure tone, he is well matched as the love interest of Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), a soprano...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20214 out of 5 stars

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Donizetti: Il Paria

Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), René Barbera (Idamore), Misha Kiria (Zarete), Marko Mimica (Akebare), Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder

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Barbera proves up to the task, effortlessly pinging out top C sharps with abandon. With his generous, pure tone, he is well matched as the love interest of Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), a soprano...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20214 out of 5 stars

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Set in 16th-century India, 'Il Paria' is a powerful and moving story of impossible love, social barriers and religious intolerance. Donizetti was particularly proud of his work, reusing many of its melodies in future compositions. Albina Shagimuratova leads a stellar cast including René Barbera, singing one of the most demanding roles ever written for tenor, and the talented Georgian baritone Misha Kiria in the title character.

  • Release date: 15th Jan 2021
  • Label: Opera Rara
  • Catalogue number: 9293800602
  • Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Donizetti: Il Paria
Work length1:50:58
Preludio
Track length0:55
"In questa a te sacrata antica selva" (Chorus)
Track length2:38
"Oggi ei riede!" (Akebare, Chorus)
Track length3:28
"Il Pontifice degna" (Chorus, Akebare)
Track length2:11
"Orrendo sogno!" (Neala, Akebare)
Track length0:43
"Parea che mentre l’àloe" (Neala, Akebare, Chorus)
Track length3:12
"O tu, luce del vero" (Chorus, Akebare, Neala)
Track length2:19
"Ah, che un raggio di speranza" (Neala, Akebare, Chorus)
Track length4:37
"emina pompa nel gran tempio" (Akebare)
Track length0:55
"Sì, decisi..." (Neala, Zaide)
Track length2:38
"Tergi, o Dio" (Zarete, Neala, Zaide)
Track length1:40
"Qual tu ti sia, qui t’inoltra" (Neala, Zarete, Empsaele, Zaide)
Track length3:49
"Ah no, che il core" (Zarete)
Track length2:50
"Là dove al ciel s’estolle" (Idamore)
Track length5:12
"Lontano, io più l’amai" (Idamore)
Track length4:01
"Fin dove sorgono" (Idamore)
Track length3:32
"Ma chi è colui?" (Idamore, Zarete)
Track length3:40
"D’un Akebar la figlia?" (Zarete)
Track length3:56
"Salvi, o Nume" (Chorus, Zarete, Idamore)
Track length2:39
"Non m’obliasti" (Zarete, Idamore)
Track length0:46
"Lascerò colei che adoro?" (Idamore, Zarete)
Track length4:28
"Discendi" (Empsaele, Akebare, Idamore, Neala)
Track length6:27
"A un culto barbaro" (Idamore, Neala)
Track length1:18
"La mano tua" (Idamore, Neala)
Track length2:30
"Tu? Mia?" (Idamore, Neala)
Track length1:26
"Sarai tu sempre, o caro" (Neala, Idamore)
Track length3:48
"Notte, ch’eterna a me parevi" (Zarete)
Track length5:48
"Qui pel figlio una madre gridava" (Zarete)
Track length3:07
"Mai fulgido così" (Chorus, Zarete)
Track length3:18
"Questa adunque, o figlio ingrato" (Zarete)
Track length3:03
"Brama, autor dell’universo" (Chorus)
Track length4:09
"Quanto di lieto" (Idamore, Akebare, Neala)
Track length3:42
"Da sì caro e dolce istante" (Idamore, Neala, Akebare, Empsaele, Chorus)
Track length4:13
"Ma tu, sommo Bramano" (Zarete, Akebare, Neala, Idamore)
Track length2:30
"Deh un folle ardir" (Neala, Akebare, Zarete, Idamore, Chorus)
Track length2:12
"La sorte di noi miseri" (Idamore, Zarete, Neala, Akebare)
Track length3:18

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Awards and reviews

  • Presto Recording of the Week
    15th January 2021
  • International Classical Music Awards
    2022
    Nominated - Opera

March 2021

Barbera proves up to the task, effortlessly pinging out top C sharps with abandon. With his generous, pure tone, he is well matched as the love interest of Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), a soprano with a velvety, often consoling voice and an impeccable sense of line, while Misha Kiria is imposing as Zarete, the eponymous ‘pariah’...The Britten Sinfonia under Mark Elder are on superb form, the recording carefully balanced so individual instrumental lines blaze through the texture.
4 out of 5 stars

February 2021

The music is splendid, well worth discovering...Shagimuratova is superb...Barbera is breathtakingly wonderful...Elder conducts with his customary zeal. Subtlety, too...The Britten Sinfonia respond to Elder’s conducting with playing of great sensitivity and beauty.

15th January 2021

Barbera takes Idamore's formidable technical challenges in his stride...Shagimuratova’s ample, silvery tone and gleaming top notes are every bit as thrilling as they were on Opera Rara’s Semiramide, and she’s a fine vocal actress, whilst Kiria brings Zarete to life in all his emotional complexity...The splendid Opera Rara chorus have plenty of opportunity to shine in the Brahmins’ great hymn to the sun in Act Two.
Katherine Cooper

Limelight Magazine November 2020

Elder is an experienced Donizettian with a keen instinct for how to shape this music ensuring maximum dramatic thrust but also spotlighting the composer’s felicitous orchestral effects...Shagimuratova proves she’s a lot more than simply a spinner of pretty roulades...Barbera is quite a find as Idamore…Il Paria has a great deal going for it and repays repeated encounters, especially in a top-notch performance like this
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