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Donizetti: Roberto Devereux - Teatro Real, Madrid 2015
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(DVD - Code 2)
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In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux , one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (aIong with Anna Bolena , Maria Stuarda and II Castello di KeniIworth ), the protagonist, Queen EIizabeth l of England, excIaims: "I do not reign, l do not Iive". This statement encapsuIates great operatic themes, and it is the cuImination of an opera that reveals the passions of characters who live among paIace intrigues. Written in the mature period of the leader of Italian romanticism, the opera dispIays a great vocaI virtuosity, and is an example of Donizetti prizing the voice above alI in the genre. The staging, by South African director Alessandro Talevi, who has been very successfuI in great opera houses as weII as with more experimental theatre, places the play in an undetermined period, focusing on the chiaroscuro. Bruno CampaneIIa conducts the production with Mariella Devia (Award Winner Singer of the Year at the Opera Awards 2016), SiIvia Tro Santafé and Gregory Kunde in the main roIes. |
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