"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)
Xabier Anduaga, I Virtuosi Italiani, Lawrence Brownlee, Corrado Rovaris
"Donala a questo core" (Agorante, Ricciardo)
"Teco or sarà" (Agorante, Ricciardo)
"Nume! se a' miei sospiri" (Uberto, Elena)
I Virtuosi Italiani, Lawrence Brownlee, Tara Erraught, Corrado Rovaris
"Qual pena in me già desta" (Uberto, Rodrigo, Elena)
Lawrence Brownlee, Tara Erraught, Michael Spyres, I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
"Deh! Scusa i trasporti" (Leicester, Norfolk)
"Non m'inganno" - "Al mio rivale" (Otello, Iago)
Xabier Anduaga, Michael Spyres, I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
"Ah! vieni, nel tuo sangue vendicherò le offese" (Otello, Rodrigo)
"Che fiero punto e questo" (Otello, Rodrigo, Desdemona)
Tara Erraught, Michael Spyres, Lawrence Brownlee, I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
"Grand Dieu, faut-il qu'un peuple" (Néoclès)
"Cher Cléomène" (Cléomène, Néoclès)
"Céleste providence" (Cléomène, Néoclès, Pamyra)
Corrado Rovaris, Lawrence Brownlee, Tara Erraught, I Virtuosi Italiani, Michael Spyres
"In quale aspetto imbelle" (Rinaldo, Carlo, Ubaldo)
Lawrence Brownlee, Xabier Anduaga, Michael Spyres, I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris