Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini Coro Municipale Di Piacenza Frizza - Lucrezia Borgia - BLU-RAY

Gaetano Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia is a dark and scandalous tale of murder and excess. Initially criticised for it's audacious nature, the opera has since become appreciated as one of the great masterpieces of Italian bel canto repertoire with glorious arias and stirring choruses. Created using Roger Parker's new critical edition and with acclaimed soprano Carmela Remigio in the title role, Andrea Bernard's spectacular Donizetti Festival production is 'gripping and intense at every moment... this production ranks among the best all year' (operawire. Com).

Dimitra Theodossiou, Roberto de Biasio, Enrico Giuseppe Iori, and Nidia Palacios star in this 2007 Bergamo Musica Festival production of the Donizetti opera conducted by Tiziano Severini.

This opera was recorded at the 2019 Festival Verdi in a new coproduction from Teatro Regio di Parma and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. I due Foscari, a tragedia lirica in three acts based on a work by Lord Byron, was premiered in 1844. It proved quite popular for the next fifty years, thanks in part to it's brevity and ease of staging; in fact it's Verdi's shortest opera. The composer also revised the libretto by the rather inexperienced Francesco Maria Piave. From the musical point of view, this work is characterized by extreme simplicity of form and by the use of distinctive themes for each character, reminiscent of the Leitmotiv technique. The simple plot describes the mortal hatred between a Venetian gentleman, Jacopo Loredano, and two members of the Foscari family - the Doge Francesco and his son Jacopo - whom Loredano holds responsible for the deaths of his father and uncle. The effectiveness of this recording stems from both the cast of singers (notably Vladimir Stoyanov in the role of Francesco Foscari) and the orchestra under Paolo Arrivabeni's direction Paolo Arrivabeni is a highly experienced, international conductor who specializes in this repertoire.