"All'idea di quel metallo" (Figaro, Almaviva)
Amici e Rivali
Amici e Rivali (Friends and Rivals) celebrates one of music’s golden ages, when Rossini’s operas provided the fuel for truly incendiary singing. Star tenors of the 19th century—Andrea Nozzari, Giovanni David and Manuel García—are recalled by two of today’s most stylish tenors, American operatic singers Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee. Both have made a speciality of Rossini’s repertoire and sing with a wonderfully sure-footed grasp of the idiom—whether solo, in duet or joined by their two guests, the Irish mezzo Tara Erraught and a third tenor, Xabier Anduaga. Nicely programmed, the album is given further polish by Italian conductor Corrado Rovaris’ elegant ensemble, I Virtuosi Italiani.
"Qual sarà mai la gioia" (Ricciardo, Ernesto)
Lawrence Brownlee, Xabier Anduaga, I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
"Donala a questo core" (Agorante, Ricciardo)
"Teco or sarà" (Agorante, Ricciardo)
"Nume! se a' miei sospiri" (Uberto, Elena)
Tara Erraught, Lawrence Brownlee, I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
"Qual pena in me già desta" (Uberto, Rodrigo, Elena)
Tara Erraught, Lawrence Brownlee, I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris, Michael Spyres
"Deh! Scusa i trasporti" (Leicester, Norfolk)
"Non m'inganno" - "Al mio rivale" (Otello, Iago)
Corrado Rovaris, I Virtuosi Italiani, Xabier Anduaga, Michael Spyres
"Ah! vieni, nel tuo sangue vendicherò le offese" (Otello, Rodrigo)
"Che fiero punto e questo" (Otello, Rodrigo, Desdemona)
Lawrence Brownlee, I Virtuosi Italiani, Tara Erraught, Michael Spyres, Corrado Rovaris
"Grand Dieu, faut-il qu'un peuple" (Néoclès)
"Cher Cléomène" (Cléomène, Néoclès)
"Céleste providence" (Cléomène, Néoclès, Pamyra)
Tara Erraught, Michael Spyres, Lawrence Brownlee, I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
"In quale aspetto imbelle" (Rinaldo, Carlo, Ubaldo)
Xabier Anduaga, Michael Spyres, Lawrence Brownlee, Corrado Rovaris, I Virtuosi Italiani