Donizetti: Il Paria (complete opera)

 
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Il Paria (complete opera)
Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, Misha Kiria, Marko Mimica / Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder

[ Opera Rara / 2 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Friday 15 January 2021

This item is only available to us via Special Import.

Set in 16th-century India, Il Paria is a powerful and moving story of impossible love, social barriers and religious intolerance. Donizetti was particularly proud of his work, reusing many of its melodies in future compositions. Returning to Opera Rara following our multi-award-winning recording of Rossini's Semiramide, Albina Shagimuratova leads a stellar cast including René Barbera, singing one of the most demanding roles ever written for tenor, and the talented Georgian baritone Misha Kiria in the title character.

"Barbera proves up to the task, effortlessly pinging out top C sharps with abandon. With his generous, pure tone, he is well matched as the love interest of Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), a soprano with a velvety, often consoling voice and an impeccable sense of line, while Misha Kiria is imposing as Zarete, the eponymous 'pariah'...The Britten Sinfonia under Mark Elder are on superb form, the recording carefully balanced so individual instrumental lines blaze through the texture." BBC Music

"The music is splendid, well worth discovering...Shagimuratova is superb...Barbera is breathtakingly wonderful...Elder conducts with his customary zeal. Subtlety, too...The Britten Sinfonia respond to Elder's conducting with playing of great sensitivity and beauty." Gramophone

International Classical Music Awards 2022
Nominated - Opera

Tracks:

CD1 - ACT I

1 Preludio 00:56
2 'In questa a te sacrata antica selva' (Coro di Sacerdoti) 02:39
3 'Oggi ei riede!' (Akebare, Coro di Bramani, Sacerdoti e Sacerdotesse) 03:29
4 'Il Pontifice degna' (Coro di Sacerdoti, Akebare) 02:12
5 'Orrendo sogno!' (Neala, Akebare) 00:43
6 'Parea che mentre l'àloe' (Neala, Akebare, Coro) 03:13
7 'O tu, luce del vero' (Coro, Akebare, Neala) 02:20
8 'Ah, che un raggio di speranza' (Neala, Akebare, Coro) 04:38
9 'Gemina pompa nel gran tempio' (Akebare) 00:56
10 'Sì, decisi…' (Neala, Zaide) 02:38
11 'Tergi, o Dio' (Zarete, Neala, Zaide) 01:41
12 'Qual tu ti sia, qui t'inoltra' (Neala, Zarete, Empsaele, Zaide) 03:49
13 'Ah no, che il core' (Zarete) 02:51
14 'Là dove al ciel s'estolle' (Idamore) 05:13
15 'Lontano, io più l'amai' (Idamore) 04:02
16 'Fin dove sorgono' (Idamore) 03:32
17 'Ma chi è colui?' (Idamore, Zarete) 03:41
18 'D'un Akebar la figlia?' (Zarete) 03:56
19 'Salvi, o Nume' (Coro di Sacerdoti e Sacerdotesse, Zarete, Idamore) 02:40
20 'Non m'obliasti' (Zarete, Idamore) 00:46
21 'Lascerò colei che adoro?' (Idamore, Zarete) 04:29

CD2 - ACT II

1 'Discendi' (Empsaele, Akebare, Idamore, Neala) 06:28
2 'A un culto barbaro' (Idamore, Neala) 01:19
3 'La mano tua' (Idamore, Neala) 02:30
4 'Tu? Mia?' (Idamore, Neala) 01:27
5 'Sarai tu sempre, o caro' (Neala, Idamore) 03:49
6 'Notte, ch'eterna a me parevi' (Zarete) 05:48
7 'Qui pel figlio una madre gridava' (Zarete) 03:08
8 'Mai fulgido così' (Coro di Sacerdoti, Zarete) 03:18
9 'Questa adunque, o figlio ingrato' (Zarete) 03:04
10 'Brama, autor dell'universo' (Coro di Sacerdoti e Sacerdotesse) 04:09
11 'Quanto di lieto' (Idamore, Akebare, Neala) 03:42
12 'Da sì caro e dolce istante' (Idamore, Neala, Akebare, Empsaele, Coro di Sacerdoti e Sacerdotesse) 04:14
13 'Ma tu, sommo Bramano' (Zarete, Akebare, Neala, Idamore) 02:30
14 'Deh un folle ardir' (Neala, Akebare, Zarete, Idamore, Coro di Sacerdoti e Sacerdotesse) 02:13
15 'La sorte di noi miseri' (Idamore, Zarete, Neala, Akebare) 03:19

Donizetti IL PARIA (c) Opera Rara