Leoncavallo: Zaza (complete opera recorded in 2020) BLU-RAY
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RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Leoncavallo: Zaza (complete opera recorded in 2020) BLU-RAY
Vienna Opera / Svetlana Aksenova, Enkelejda Shkosa, Dorothea Herbert, Juliette Mars / Stefan Soltesz (cond)
[ C Major / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc ]
Release Date: Friday 12 November 2021
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With Ruggero Leoncavallo's rarity Zazá, the Theater an der Wien scored a coup with the grandiose house debutante Svetlana Aksenova in the title role. Christof Loy delivers a striking staging of the Verismo drama and conductor Stefan Soltez spiritedly leads the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien through the highly acclaimed evening. 'It would take a whole newspaper page to praise all the performers appropriately', praises Der Standard. Of particular note is Svetlana Aksenova as Zazá who 'suffers the whole spectrum from intimate affection to raging jealousy and mute despair', Nikolai Schukoff (Milio) 'shows himself as a daredevil and a depressed mourner', Christopher Maltman as Cascart 'leads energetically and touchingly his already lost fight for his beloved.' An evening worth seeing and hearing!
"Loy manages to focus in his surgical, sparing way on the essentials...I just wish Leoncavallo's 1900 opera was deserving of such a polished staging, as well as the diligent conducting by Stefan Soltész and warmly responsive playing of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien" (Gramophone)
"By far the most telling contributions come from Christopher Maltman in the beau rôle of Cascart, Zazà's protector and former lover, and Enkelejda Shkosa as her alcoholic mama." Opera
