Cleopatra (complete opera recorded in 2008)
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LAURO ROSSI
Cleopatra (complete opera recorded in 2008)
Dimitra Theodossiou / Alessandro Liberatore / Paolo Pecchioli / Sebastian Catana / Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana / David Crescenzi
[ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 1 June 2011
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"there are some strongly dramatic scenes, such as where Cleopatra improbably turns up in Rome intending to murder Mary Antony's wife: her two-octave drop at 'Si, Cleopatra!' leads to a powerful ensemble of perplexity...There are no outstanding voices but the performance is strong enough to appeal to anyone curious about the byways of 19th-century opera." (Gramophone)
"Rossi, fashionable in the 1840s, was attempting a career revival by clambering on the Egyptology bandwagon made popular by Aida...Rossi's style, meanwhile, is closer to Meyerbeer than Verdi...The best singing comes from Dimitra Theodossiou's smoky-toned Cleopatra and Sebastian Catana's handsomely harassed Diomede." (The Guardian)
