Release Date: 01 November 2018
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 730099044479
Composer/Series: Gioachino Rossini
Description
With its carefully planned yet complex dramatic structure and skilful transformation of a tale of heroic conflict between two enemies into a drama of impossible love, Maometto II is considered Rossini's most radical and innovative opera. Against the background of the violent and cruel tumult of war as the Venetian colony of Negroponte is invaded and defeated by Sultan Mehmet II 'the Conqueror', in 1470, Rossini contrasts this clash of civilisations with the tender emotions of a doomed romance expressed in some of the most beautiful melodies he ever wrote. Heard here in its original Naples version – the more conventional 1822 Venice version with its overture and happy ending can be heard on Naxos 8.660149-51 – this is a movingly tragic drama in which the suicide of the main female role is not without a grim relevance even today.
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Soloists/Mayr Chorus/Hauk
Sohn/Loeb/Nutall
Siberian State So/Lande
