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Gianfranco Masini, London Symphony Orchestra, Montserrat Caballe - Gioacchino Rossini: Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra (1992)

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Gianfranco Masini, London Symphony Orchestra, Montserrat Caballe - Gioacchino Rossini: Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra (1992)

Gianfranco Masini, London Symphony Orchestra, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras - Gioacchino Rossini: Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 569 Mb | Total time: 141:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 432 453-2 | Recorded: 1975

The Naples years, 1815 to 1822, are at the very centre of Rossini's creative life. It is here that genius—''I had facility and lots of instinct''—was put to school. And firmly so: the serious masterpieces of the Naples years take as their subjects the Bible and Shakespeare, Scott and Racine, Tasso and English historical romance.

Ettore Gracis, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Il campanello di note (2005)

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Ettore Gracis, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Il campanello di note (2005)

Ettore Gracis, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice - Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Il campanello di note (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 734 Mb | Total time: 81:03+77:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 5631 | Recorded: 1964

Don Pasquale is among the last of Donizetti’s sixty-six completed operas. After the successful premiere of Linda di Chamounix in Vienna in May 1842. Donizetti made his way to Milan, hoping to get a new libretto for a comic opera for Paris. He actually started on a work called ‘Ne m’oubliez pas’ (do not forget me) before abandoning it when he got the commission to write a comic opera for the Théâtre Italien. Giovanni Ruffini, an Italian political exile living in Paris, wrote the libretto based on a previous opera by Pavesi. Donizetti was not happy with Ruffini’s verses and made changes of his own to the extent that his librettist refused to attach his name to the printed libretto.

Silvio Varviso, Orchestra e Coro Rossini di Napoli - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1999)

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Silvio Varviso, Orchestra e Coro Rossini di Napoli - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1999)

Silvio Varviso, Orchestra e Coro Rossini di Napoli - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 730 Mb | Total time: 144:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 452 591-2 | Recorded: 1964

The Overture gives the clue: this is the Barber of the nudge and the wink, of the Neapolitan siesta rubato and the rumbustious business. Silvio Varviso, who works his willing orchestra hard enough, tends to operate by exaggerated contrasts of tempo rather than by pointing within the phrasing itself: the cast, similarly, work the comic value of the words rather than the wit of their underlay or inflection.