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Rani Calderon, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Semiramide (2007)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Rani Calderon, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Semiramide (2007)

Rani Calderon, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Semiramide (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 595 Mb | Total time: 76:25+77:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 533/1-2 | Recorded: 2006

Meyerbeer’s opera, written four years before Rossini’s Semiramide, is based on an adaptation, probably done by Count Ludovico Piossasco Feys, of the libretto written by Pietro Metastasio in the far-off year of 1729, which had already been set to music several times by leading composers of the eighteenth century. Count Piossasco Feys worked skilfully and transformed the Metastasio tragedy, based on the classical alternation recitative - solo aria, into a more agile, modern structure, including a smaller number of arias, duets, trios and ensemble pieces. Meyerbeer’s opera was written for one of the most esteemed singers of the day, Carolina Bassi, a performer with a great vocal range that enabled her to give of her best both in contralto and in soprano roles. In the early part of the opera, where Semiramide dresses in men’s clothing, passing herself off as her son, Meyerbeer writes her part using a rather low register.