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P & C 2019 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd Booklet notes and synopsis in English Kommentar und Inhaltsangabe auf Deutsch Made in Germany DDD 2:14:41 Playing Time 8.660454-55 7 30099 04547 6 www.naxos.com 37:36 28:50
Eduard Tsanga, Bass Tsanga, Eduard Yasushi Hirano, Bass Yasushi Sébastien Soulès, Bass Pavel Černoch, Tenor Pavel Černoch, Gianluca Buratto, Bass Jonathan Winell, Tenor Winell, Jonathan Sabine Winter, Soprano Winter, Sabine Claudio Sgura, Baritone Paul Schweinester, Tenor Paul Schweinester, Iulia Maria Dan, Soprano Bartosz Urbanowicz, Baritone Act III Act IV
Dshamilja Kaiser, Mezzo-Soprano Dshamilja Kaiser, 4 7 – – 1 5
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CD 2 Franco (‘Hamlet’) (1840–1891) 28:42 39:02 FACCIO Amleto Paolo Carignani Tragedia lirica in four acts (1865) lirica in four Tragedia Bregenzer Festspiele GmbH / Olaf Schmitt, A. 2016 (‘Hamlet’) represented a radical new development in Italian opera, opera, Italian in development new radical a represented (‘Hamlet’) Amleto
Booklet notes: C Recorded: 20, 25 and at 18, 28 the June Festspielhaus 2016 Bregenz, Austria Act I Act II Prague Philharmonic Choir • Wiener Symphoniker Wiener • Choir Prague Philharmonic Libretto by Arrigo Boito (1842–1918) after William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Shakespeare William Arrigo Boito (1842–1918) after by Libretto
8 $ – – Producer and editor: Julian Schwenkner • Engineers: Peter Ghirardini, Tilo Feinermann ...... 1 9 ...... The Italian libretto and English translation may be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/660454.htm
. Composer Franco Faccio and his librettist Arrigo Boito sought a greater greater a sought Boito Arrigo his librettist and Faccio Franco . Composer melodramma nuovo Publisher: Casa Ricordi – edited Anthony by Barrese • A co-production with the Bregenzer Festspiele , Hamlet a play that many then considered un-operatic, they found the perfect medium through CD 1 the music. text and between relationship equal a more and productions staged in unity of musical degree In scenes: set-piece great least the – not dramatic power and philosophical the work’s to explore which o non essere! ’ ‘Essere soliloquy (‘To be Amleto’s or not to be’), Ofelia’s Mad Scene and the fight yet to come. operas the verismo prefigures strikingly – in a way that scenes First performed in 1865, in performed First La regina Giovanna (‘Queen Giovanna’)...... La regina (‘First Gravedigger’)Luciano / Primo becchino ...... Marcello Gertrude (‘Priest’)...... (‘Ghost’) / Un sacerdote Lo spettro Gonzaga (‘King Gonzaga’) re Un araldo (‘Herald’) / Il Orazio Laerte Ofelia Amleto Claudio...... Polonio......
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