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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, Tsanga, Eduard Yasushi Hirano, Bass Yasushi Sébastien Soulès, Bass Pavel Černoch, Pavel Černoch, Gianluca Buratto, Bass Jonathan Winell, Tenor Winell, Jonathan Sabine Winter, Winter, Sabine Claudio Sgura, , 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 (‘’) (1840–1891) 28:42 39:02 FACCIO Amleto Paolo Carignani Tragedia lirica in four acts (1865) lirica in four Tragedia GmbH / Olaf Schmitt, A. 2016 (‘Hamlet’) represented a radical new development in Italian , 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, Act I Act II Prague Philharmonic Choir • Wiener Symphoniker Wiener • Choir Prague Philharmonic by (1842–1918) after (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 and his librettist Arrigo Boito sought a greater greater a sought Boito Arrigo his librettist and Faccio Franco . Composer melodramma nuovo Publisher: – 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 and the fight yet to come. 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 (‘Priest’)...... (‘’) / Un sacerdote Lo spettro Gonzaga (‘King Gonzaga’) re Un araldo (‘Herald’) / Il Orazio Laerte Ofelia Amleto Claudio...... Polonio......

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