Latest News: Classical, Donizetti (composer)
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Interview,
Javier Camarena on Signor Gaetano 28th December 2022The Mexican tenor discusses his recent Pentatone album exploring Donizetti's Italian operas (including rarities such as Betly, Maria de Rudenz and Giovedì Grasso), and explains why singing these works leaves him 'feeling satisfied and happy, rather than mentally exhausted!'.
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Recording of the Week,
Signor Gaetano from Javier Camarena and Gli Originali 11th November 2022On the first of two albums devoted to the many and varied operas of Donizetti, the Mexican tenor brings fresh-faced charm to the comic heroes of L'elisir d'amore and Betly - but also excels in the darker and stormier waters of Roberto Devereux, Caterina Cornaro and Maria de Rudenz.
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Interview,
Lisette Oropesa on French bel canto 7th November 2022As she prepares for the opening night of Handel's Alcina at Covent Garden tomorrow, the Cuban-American soprano discusses her new album of French opera arias by Donizetti and Rossini on Pentatone.
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Interview,
Della Jones on Opera Rara 27th October 2021The veteran Welsh mezzo talks to Katherine about her career and her relationship with the label, which began in the late 1970s with a recording of Donizetti's Ugo, conte di Parigi.
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Recording of the Week,
Donizetti's Il Paria from Opera Rara 15th January 2021Sir Mark Elder conducts a scintillating account of Donizetti's 1829 opera about religious persecution in sixteenth-century India, starring Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, and Misha Kiria.
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Interview,
Antonio Pappano on Donizetti's Queens 21st October 2020The conductor talks to Katherine about recording the final scenes of Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena and Roberto Devereux with Diana Damrau and the Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for Warner Classics.
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Interview,
Michael Fabiano on Donizetti and Verdi 23rd May 2019The charismatic American tenor talks to Katherine about his debut solo recording on Pentatone, centring on two composers who have played a pivotal role in his career to date.
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Recording of the Week,
Donizetti's L'Ange de Nisida 22nd March 2019Sir Mark Elder conducts the world premiere of Donizetti’s opera semiseria from 1839, composed for a theatre which closed down before the opening night, but subsequently heavily revised as La favorite.
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Interview,
Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's L’Ange de Nisida 21st March 2019The conductor talks to Katherine about the world premiere recording of Donizetti’s 1839 opera, released tomorrow on Opera Rara with Joyce El-Khoury in the title-role.
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Recording of the Week,
Elīna Garanča sings the title role in Donizetti's La Favorite 28th July 2017Katherine enjoys Elīna Garanča's commanding performance in Donizetti's dramatic tragedy alongside Mariusz Kwiecień and Matthew Polenzani.
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Recording of the Week,
Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and Donizetti's Poliuto from Glyndebourne 22nd July 2016Katherine enjoys a double-bill of innovative Roman-themed operatic productions from Glyndebourne 2015.
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Interview,
Michael Spyres 30th March 2016Katherine talks to the American tenor about his career to date and his role on Opera Rara's new recording of Donizetti's Le Duc d’Albe.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Le Duc d'Albe 26th February 2016Katherine enjoys Donizetti's Flanders-set epic Le Duc d'Albe, conducted by Mark Elder.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Les Martyrs 4th May 2015Katherine listens to the first ever complete recording of Donizetti's opera.
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Interview,
Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's Les Martyrs 3rd April 2015Ahead of Opera Rara's release of the work's premiere recording next month, Katherine talks to the British conductor about Donizetti's Parisian breakthrough.
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Composer Guides,
Gaetano Donizetti Katherine has some difficult decisions to make about favourite recordings of operas by Gaetano Donizetti.
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Interview,
Joyce DiDonato on Maria Stuarda 13th May 2014Joyce DiDonato talks to Katherine about the challenges of bringing Donizetti's Stuart queen to life.
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Recording of the Week,
Lucia from the Mariinsky 1st August 2011Natalie Dessay brings fragility and neurosis to the title-role, contrasting powerfully with Gergiev’s red-blooded Donizetti à la Verdi, Piotr Beczała’s ardent, ringing Edgardo and Vladislav Sulimsky’s black-voiced Enrico.