DONIZETTI Heroines - The Collector's boxset

This DVD box-set is entitled Donizetti Heroines because many of the composer’s operas are named after their female protagonists. Even in the few cases where they aren’t, they give musical portrayals of unforgettable female characters, tragic and passionate figures, often innocent victims of the infernal gears of power and therefore destined to a hapless fate.
Between 1818 and 1843 Gaetano Donizetti composed some seventy operas, many of which became very popular in his day. His first success came in 1830 with Anna Bolena and from that moment he rivalled Bellini as the ‘leading operatic composer in Italy’, churning out works with the constant rhythm of a typical 18th-century composer.
Some of Donizetti’s best works rank among the masterpieces of 19th-century opera. A few of them have remained in the repertoire worldwide since their debut, while others were to be revived only from the second half of the 1900s, in the wake of what has rightly been called the ‘Donizetti Renaissance’. Today operatic audiences are radically different from those of two hundred years ago and during the 2018/19 season Donizetti was placed fifth in the list of the world’s most represented composers. We believe that the credit for this goes to his splendid heroines and their great interpreters who, yesterday and today, brought them alive on stage and continue to do so. This collectors’ release offers a selection of nine operas featuring some of the most iconic and unforgettable
Donizetti characters, performed by outstanding singers such as Mariella Devia, Jessica Pratt, Carmela Remigio, Patrizia Ciofi and Sonia Ganassi.

Content:

DVDs 1–2
ANNA BOLENA
Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, October 2006
Dimitra Theodossiou, Gian Luca Pasolini,
Riccardo Zanellato, Sofia Soloviy
Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Conductor: Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Director: Francesco Esposito
Video Director: Matteo Ricchetti
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish
DVDs 3–4
PIA DE’ TOLOMEI
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, April 2005
Patrizia Ciofi, Dario Schmunck, Andrew Schroeder, Laura Polverelli, Francesco Meli
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni
Director: Christian Gangneron
Video Director: Tiziano Mancini
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese
DVD 5
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, October 2006
Désirée Rancatore, Roberto De Biasio, Luca Grassi, Enrico Giuseppe Iori
Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Conductor: Antonino Fogliani
Director: Francesco Esposito
Video Director: Matteo Ricchetti
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish
DVD 6
IL CASTELLO DI KENILWORTH
Teatro Sociale di Bergamo – Festival Donizetti 2018
Jessica Pratt, Carmela Remigio,
Xabier Anduaga, Stefan Pop
Orchestra and Chorus of Donizetti Opera
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Maria Pilar Pérez Aspa
Video Director: Matteo Ricchetti
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
DVDs 8–9
LA FAVORITE
Opera di Firenze / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, February 2018
Veronica Simeoni, Celso Albelo, Mattia Olivieri,
Ugo Guagliardo, Manuel Amati
Orchestra and Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Director: Ariel Garcia-Valdés
Video Director: Matteo Ricchetti
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
DVD 10
PIGMALIONE
Teatro Sociale di Bergamo – Festival Donizetti 2017
Aya Wakizono, Antonino Siragusa
Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Gianluca Capuano
Director: Roberto Catalano
Video Director: Matteo Ricchetti
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
DVD 11
ROBERTO DEVEREUX
Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, March 2016
Mariella Devia, Sonia Ganassi, Stefan Pop, Mansoo Kim, Alessandro Fantoni
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova
Conductor: Francesco Lanzillotta
Director: Alfonso Antoniozzi
Video Director: Matteo Ricchetti
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
DVDs 12–13
ROSMONDA D’INGHILTERRA
Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, November 2016
Jessica Pratt, Eva Mei, Dario Schmunck, Nicola Ulivieri
Orchestra and Chorus of Donizetti Opera
Conductor: Sebastiano Rolli
Director: Paola Rota
Video Director: Matteo Ricchetti
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
Produced by DYNAMIC SRL Italy
Worldwide distribution: NAXOS www.naxos.com
Available on DVD: 37859

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