MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete opera)
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete opera)
Veronica Villarroel; Elena Zaremba; Andrea Bocelli; Carlo Guelfi / Orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio
[ Decca Records / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 27 May 2004
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"Lay misconceptions aside: this version of a popular favourite challenges the best"
Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Sept 2004
EDITOR'S CHOICE GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE SEPT 2004
"Andrea Bocelli has, in the last few years, been digging ever deeper into the 'core' repertoire and here tackles a role that has caused its fair share of casualties. His voice is surely too small to tackle the role on stage, but in the recording studio he manages Manrico with remarkable success. His Italianate timbre and often highly idiomatic phrasing place him impressively at the centre of a well-cast and sensitively directed recording of Il trovatore."
(Gramophone)
Following his complete recordings of two of the greatest operas by Puccini - La Bohème and Tosca - superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli has now recorded his first complete opera by Verdi - probably the greatest opera composer of all time.
Il Trovatore (The Troubador) is one of Verdi's greatest operas - a story of fiery passion and dark revenge set against the highly dramatic backdrop of Fifteenth Century Spain.
Andrea Bocelli has already had great success with one of the most famous arias from this opera - Di quella pira which he sang on his massively successful album of Verdi arias.
Il Trovatore is packed with many of Verdi's greatest tunes including the hugely popular Anvil Chorus and has been famously described as the perfect opera for the four greatest voices in the world. Joining Andrea Bocelli for this recording are soprano Veronica Villaroel (a leading singer of the role of Leonora in many of the world's great opera houses), Elena Zaremba as the vengeful gypsy Azucena and baritone Carlo Guelfi as the tormented Count whos love for Leonora is threatened by the mysterious, heroic Manrico, sung by Andrea Bocelli.
