Rossini: La Gazza Ladra / Paolo Bordogna Ferrara/Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano, Papatheologou, Korchak; Cantarero [DVD]

Rossini: La Gazza Ladra / Paolo Bordogna Ferrara/Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano, Papat

Label: Dynamic
Catalog No: DYN 33567
Format: DVD-Video
Release Date: 2011-01-01
Number of Discs: 2
UPC Code: 8007144335670

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La Gazza Ladra is an "opera semiseria" which developed from the middle of the eighteenth century with the vogue for "Larmoyant" tales. By Rossini's time this genre was classified into a rigidly defined series of conventions: a drama with a happy ending, in which the innocent victim, unjustly condemned, should be saved from the scaffold at the eleventh hour and the rascal persecutor punished. The social setting of these operas always delt with a conflict between a feudal aristocracy ( that in La Gazza Ladra is replaced by arrogant welders of power ) and a world of humble people , nearly always peasants. Known as 'The Thieving Magpie' in English, La Gazza Ladra deals with a servant girl accused of stealing some silverware with which the magpie of the title has actually absconded for its nest. Seemingly lightweight, the opera was rooted in a true story in which a young woman was actually put to death for the bird's "crime". - The overture neatly melds episodic colour with the weightier drama of symphonic sonata form. It features a parade of effects and lovely themes, including an especially famous one introduced by an oboe, that anticipates the characters and action to come, and then, following a spectacular crescendo, reworks several of these themes in a mini-development section.

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Picture Format: NTSC



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Works Details

>Rossini, Gioachino : La gazza ladra
  • Performers: Stefan Cifolelli (Tenor); Paolo Bordogna (Baritone); Mariola Cantarero (Soprano); Cosimo Panozzo (Tenor); Manuela Custer (Mezzo Soprano); Alex Esposito (Bass); Mario Ferrara (Tenor); Kleopatra Papatheologou (Mezzo Soprano); Vittorio Prato (Baritone); Michele Pertusi (Bass); Dmitry Korchak (Tenor)
  • Conductor: Lu Jia
  • Ensemble: Prague Chamber Choir
  • Running Time: 201 min. sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Opera/Operetta
  • Written: 1817
  • Studio/Live: Live