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Zelmira was the last opera Rossini wrote for Naples, knowing it would also be his calling card to Vienna where he had been assured performances. Keen to reconcile the alleged incompatibility between ‘Italian’ melody and ‘German’ harmony, Rossini employed exciting and daring harmonies and a raft of dazzling orchestral effects in this tragedy in which a daughter saves her father, the king, and her son, from usurpers to the throne. The opera was acclaimed wherever it was heard, and this recording presents the revised and triumphant Paris version. DDD
Gioachino 8.660468-70 Dalla Benetta • Stewart Süngü Comparato Sacchi ROSSINI Playing Time (1792–1868) 2:54:51 7 Virtuosi Brunensis • Gelmetti 3
ZELMIRA 0 ROSSINI Dramma per musica in two acts (1822) (Paris version, 1826) 0 9
Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (d. 1831) 9
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Polidoro, king of Lesbos Federico Sacchi 4 6
Zelmira, his daughter...... Silvia Dalla Benetta 8 7
: Zelmira Ilo, prince of Troy...... Mert Süngü
Antenore, prince from the reigning family of Lesbos...... Joshua Stewart 9
Emma, confidante of Zelmira...... Marina Comparato www.naxos.com Made in Germany Kommentar und Inhaltsangabe auf Deutsch Booklet notes and Synopsis in English C 2020 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd P 2017 SWR Leucippo, confidant of Antenore...... Luca Dall’Amico Eacide, Trojan officer...... Xiang Xu Gran Sacerdote, high priest...... Emmanuel Franco Górecki Chamber Choir, Kraków (Mateusz Prendota, Artistic Director) Virtuosi Brunensis (Karel Mitáš, Artistic Director) Gianluigi Gelmetti
CD 1 1–% Act I (beginning) 58:43 CD 2 1–! Act I (conclusion) 44:34 CD 3 1–( Act II 71:34 8.660468-70 8.660468-70 Recorded: 19, 20, 21 and 27 July 2017 at the Trinkhalle, Bad Wildbad, Germany at the XXIX ROSSINI IN WILDBAD Festival (Jochen Schönleber, Artistic Director) · A co-production with SWR • Producer: Roland Rublé Engineer: Norbert Vossen • Editor: Dr Anette Sidhu-Ingenhoff • Booklet notes: Reto Müller • Edition: Helen Greenwald and Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell – Critical Edition of the Fondazione Rossini Pesaro in collaboration with Casa Ricordi, Milan The Italian libretto may be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/660468.htm