Gioachino Rossini - Elisabetta Regina D'Inghilterra (2002) [DVD9 NTSC]

Gioachino Rossini - Elisabetta Regina D'Inghilterra (2002) [DVD9 NTSC]


Actors: Lella Cuberli, Antonio Savastano, Daniela Dessì, Adriana Cicogna, Rockwell Blake
Directors: Gianfranco De Bosio
Writers: Carlo Federici, Giovanni Federico Schmidt
Format: Multiple Formats, Classical, Color, NTSC
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, Italian
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Hardy Classics DVD
DVD Release Date: November 26, 2002
Run Time: 150 minutes

Lella Cuberli (Elisabetta), Daniela Dessi (Matilda), Antonio Savastano (Leicester), Rockwell Blake (Norfolk), Mario Bolognesi (Guglielmo)

Orchestra e Coro di Teatro Regio di Torino, Gabriele Ferro


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The DVD is featured by original recording of the opera and NOT digitally re-mastered Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra, marked Rossini's first venture into the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, the most glamorous theatre of that time. The famous impresario Domenico Barbaja, had carefully prepared the launching of the rwenty-three year old composer -with sumptuous scenery, designed by a celebrated archirect, Antonio Niccolini, and engaging a firsr-rate cast. Foremost was Isabella Colbran, who later became Rossini's wife; and tenors -Andrea Nozzari and Manuel Garcia. Garcia, later, was the first Almaviva in // Barbiere and father of two legendary singers, Malibran and Viardot. It was a very important step for Rossini who had to overcome the preferred music of the Neapolitan school, particularly Paisiello's. On October 4, 1815 the production of Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra, absolutely astounded the public and launched Rossini as the most popular and fashionable composer. The new opera (based on a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt from a drama by Carlo Federici - who was inspired by Sophia Lee's novel, The Recess) launched a new kind of a historical music drama rhat became widely popular. Above all, it inspired Donizetti to compose more operas based on the English queen -such as Elisabetta al Castello di Kenilworth, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux. Thus, the regal primadonna role was born, in homage to a great and talented interpreter, Isabella Colbran. She was described as a woman of imposing and authoritative beauty who was able to express superiority and rage with a mere flashing of her Spanish eyes. A peculiar feature of Rossini's stylistic turn is his ability for using material from other previously composed operas and making them into entirely new operas -which still deceive even today's listeners. Jusr think of the Aureliano in Palmira overture that echos the overture of // barbiere; or the metamorphosis of Elisabetta's cabaletta, "Questo core",




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