Levy Sekgapane, Munchner Rundfunkorchester & Giacomo Sagripa
Release Date: 16 August 2019
Label: Prima Classic
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 850000325036
Composer/Series: Giovin Fiamma
Description
Operalia's First Prize winner in 2017, the young South African tenor Levy Sekgapane releases his debut album, 'Giovin Fiamma', featuring Rossini arias, on Prima Classics. He is accompanied by the Munchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti (Young Conductor winner in the 2016 International Opera Awards).
"His lean, shiny tenor offers the impressive flexibility, fearless high notes and combustible, open-hearted ardor that best serves the composer's work" —Opera News, USA. Critic's Choice Recording
Very much a rising star internationally and wonderfully suited to the Rossinian style, Levy Sekgapane brings freshness, clarity and thrilling and seductive vocal qualities to this Prima Classic recording. It combines arias from nine different Rossini operas, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Semiramide, Otello, La donna del lago, Zelmira, Il Turco in Italia and Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra. The Italian composer wrote these for three particular and very different singers: Giovanni Davide, Manuel García, and Andrea Nozzari.
Besides winning Plácido Domingo's Operalia, Levy Sekgapane has also taken the top prizes in the Belvedere Singing Competition and the Monserrat Caballé International Competition amongst others.
Following his appearances as Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the 2019 Glyndebourne Festival, he will make his Salzburg Festival debut in Mozart's Idomeneo, a Peter Sellars' production conducted by Teodor Currentzis, in late July/August before returning once again to the Rossini role at the Teatro Massimo Palermo the following month. In October/November, he takes to the Wexford Festival Opera stage in the little-known Rossini opera, Adina.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"If this excellent calling card is something to reckon with, this young South African should be able to elbow his way to the forefront in the lyric tenor trade. Lovers of Rossini and/or lovers of good tenor singing should have their fill here. The playing of the Munich Radio Orchestra is fully worthy of the occasion and the recording is excellent. Place your orders, music lovers!" - Göran Forsling, MusicWeb International
" Levy Sekgapane is a tenor with a very special, bright, youthful timbre. This young tenor can really seduce you with his voice. " — Klassik begeistert – Silverstergala – Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Tracklisting
Olga Jegunova
Javier Camarena, Marina Rebeka, Franco Vassallo & Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Hasmik Torosyan; Giulio Zappa
Apollo's Cabinet
Kartal Karagedik
Martin Garcia Garcia
Marina Rebeka, Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Madrid, John Fiore
Apollo's Cabinet, Alexander Armstrong
Veronique Gens; Reinoud Van Mechelen; Thomas Dolie; David Witczak; Olivia Doray; Floriane Hasler; T
Stepanka Stepanova; Milada Subrtova; Ivo Zidek; ZdenEk Kroupa; Chorus of the National Theatre in P
Soloists and Chorus of Oper Halle; Handelfestspielorchester Halle; Walter Sutcliffe; Michael Hofste
Sara Jakubiak; Elena Tsallagova; Doris Soffel; Robert Watson; Russell Braun; Albert Pesendorfer; Or
Pene Pati; Ana Maria Labin; Angela Brower; Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian; Sarah Aristidou; Ken Sugiyama;
Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie; Jean-Marie Zeitouni; Thomas Dolie; Vannina Santoni; Julie
Olga Bezsmertna; Daniel Brenna; Joseph Dahdah; Dietrich Henschel; Wilhelm Schwinghammer; Orchestra
Nicole Car; Clementine Margaine; Matthew Polenzani; Etienne Dupuis; Orchestra and Chorus of the Deu
