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660222-23bk Devereux US:570034bk Hasse 16/6/08 4:12 PM Page 8 Federica Bragaglia Federica Bragaglia studied the piano, as well as classical and modern dance at the 2 CDs Conservatorio di Frosinone, where she was awarded her diploma. Winner of various DONIZETTI competitions, she owes her dramatic training to Rossella Falk. She has collaborated with conductors including Bartoletti, David, Gelmetti, Inbal, Kuhn, Lombard, Ranzani, Ros- Marba, Mazzola, Plasson, Santi, and Soustrot, and with stage directors including Cavani, Roberto Devereux Chazalettes, Crivelli, Deflo, Herzog, Mansouri, Montaldo, Montresor, Pizzi and Puggelli. She has appeared at leading theatres, including the Comunale, Bologna, the Opera House, Theodossiou • Schroeder • Bragaglia Rome, the Carlo Felice, Genoa, the Regio, Turin, the Massimo Bellini, Catania, the Arena and the Filarmonico, Verona, the Comunale, Modena, the Regio, Parma, the Verdi, Trieste, Pisapia • Albani • Valerio and the Maestranza, Seville. She also enjoys an active concert career. Bergamo Musica Festival Orchestra and Chorus Orchestra and Chorus of the Bergamo Musica Festival Specially formed in 2006 for the Autumn Bergamo Donizetti Opera season, the Bergamo Musica Festival Orchestra and Chorus is made up in large part of both members of staff and the best students of the Istituto Musicale bergamasco. Marcello Rota Marcello Rota Marcello Rota has been a frequent guest with the world’s great opera companies, conducting performances at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Arena di Verona, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Staatsoper, Munich, Musik Halle, Hamburg, Royal Albert Hall, London, Palais Des Beaux Arts in Bruxelles, and the Elisabeth Halle in Antwerp. He has been a regular guest of important orchestras including the Philharmonic Orchestras of Munich, Berlin and Mannheim, the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Torino, Orchestra “Arturo Toscanini”, Parma, the Swiss Italian Orchestra, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphonic Orchestra of Galicia, the Gran Canaria Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic of Buenos Aires, the San Diego Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the Adelaide Symphony, the Queensland Symphony, the Perth Symphony and the Auckland and New Zealand Symphonies. Since 2004 he has been the Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra of Prague. Get this free download from Classicsonline! Bellini: La Sonnambula: Scena ed Aria - Reggimi, o buona madre Copy this Promotion Code NaxsoYb00wS5 and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/bel35_main. Downloading Instructions 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. 8.660222-23 8 660222-23bk Devereux US:570034bk Hasse 16/6/08 4:12 PM Page 2 Gaetano Dimitra Theodossiou The Greek soprano Dimitra Theodossiou came to international attention as Odabella in Attila in Bologna and Parma. She sang Lina in Stiffelio in Lisbon and Trieste, Norma in DONIZETTI Verona, Catania, Tokyo and Macerata, Giselda in I Lombardi in Florence, Anna Bolena (1797–1848) in Naples, Munich and Bergamo, Elvira in Ernani in Madrid, Leonora in Il trovatore and Lucrezia in I due Foscari at La Scala under Muti, Desdemona in Otello in Venice, Roberto Devereux Elisabetta in Don Carlo in Naples, Rome, and Zurich, Violetta in La traviata in Rome, Florence, Tokyo, and Seoul, Amalia in I Masnadieri in Palermo, Brussels and Vienna, Tragedia lirica in Three Acts Medea in Lisbon, Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux, Abigaille in Nabucco, as well as © Eiichiro SAKATA, AERA Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano Margherita/Elena in Boito’s Mefistofele in leading opera houses throughout the world. Massimiliano Pisapia Elizabeth, Queen of England . Dimitra Theodossiou Born in Turin, Massimiliano Pisapia undertook advanced studies under the guidance of The Duke of Nottingham . Andrew Schroeder Franco Corelli. He made his début as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Fraschini di Pavia. Since then he has appeared in the most important international theatres, Sara, Duchess of Nottingham . Federica Bragaglia including La Scala, Milan, the Opernhaus, Zurich, the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, the Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex . Massimiliano Pisapia State Opera, Hamburg, the Opernhaus, Leipzig, the Colón, Buenos Aires, the Maggio Musicale, Florence, the Carlo Felice, Genoa, the Regio, Turin, the Massimo, Palermo, the Lord Cecil . Luigi Albani Arena, Verona, the Verdi, Trieste, the Regio, Parma and the Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago, with a repertory which includes Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, Les contes Sir Walter Raleigh . Giorgio Valerio d’Hoffmann, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, La bohème, Un ballo in maschera, I Lombardi A Page / A Servant . Tommaso Norelli alla prima crociata, Roberto Devereux, L’elisir d’amore, Gianni Schicchi, La traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor. Active also in the concert hall, he has sung in Rossini’s Stabat Mater (Milan, Zurich, Einsiedeln), Dvorˇák’s Stabat Mater (Verona), Verdi’s Requiem (Cagliari) and Beethoven’s Orchestra and Chorus of the Bergamo Musica Festival Ninth Symphony (Cagliari). He has collaborated with such conductors as Antonello Allemandi, Bruno Bartoletti, Marcello Rota Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Oren and Stefano Ranzani. In November 2007 he made his début at the Vienna State Opera in Un ballo in maschera, with 2007/08 season appearances in Simon Boccanegra in Hamburg, Roberto Devereux and Chorus Master: Corrado Casati Un ballo in maschera at the Bavarian State Opera and Gianni Schicchi in Frankfurt. Andrew Schroeder The American singer Andrew Schroeder had his early operatic experience at the Chicago Lyric Opera and the Metropolitan Opera of New York. His career has since taken him to performances at the Lisbon São Carlo, the Toulouse Théâtre du Capitole, Welsh National Opera, Teatro La Fenice, Opéra de Nantes, Opéra Bastille, La Monnaie, Grand Théâtre de Tours, Théâtre de Nancy et Lorraine, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Canterbury Opera, New Zealand, Utah Opera, De Nederlandse Opera of Amsterdam, English National Opera, and Teatro Carlo Felice. He has appeared at the Edinburgh and Spoleto U.S.A. Festivals and collaborated with Boston Opera, New York City Opera, the American Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Opera and Opera Australia, Vancouver Opera, All photos from the Bergamo Music Festival production (front cover, Andrew Schroeder on page 7 and Federica Pacific Opera and Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center, as well as the EOS Ensemble Bragaglia on page 8) are © Photo Studio U. V. of New York. He also enjoys a career in the concert hall. 8.660222-23 2 7 8.660222-23 660222-23bk Devereux US:570034bk Hasse 16/6/08 4:12 PM Page 6 CD 2 indicates that Essex is being led to the Tower. To prevent CD 1 54:39 CD 2 72:39 Sara from running to the Queen, he gives orders that she Act 1 Act 2 Act 2 is not to leave the house. 1 Prelude: Geme! … pallor funereo 1 Introduction: L’ore trascorrono, … (Chorus) 4:28 The Palace of Westminster 8 Sara pleads with her husband, in vain. (Sara, Chorus) 3:24 2 Ebben? (Elizabeth, Cecil, Raleigh) 2:55 3 Duet: Non venni mai sì mesto (Elizabeth, 1 Dawn has broken. Essex has not escaped. The lords Scene 2: The condemned cell in the Tower of London. 2 All’afflitto è dolce il pianto (Sara, Chorus) 2:56 Cecil, Raleigh) 6:26 and ladies discuss the trial and foretell his execution. 3 Duchessa … alle fervide preci del tuo 9 A sombre orchestral introduction sets the scene. Essex 4 Trio: Ecco l’indegno! (Elizabeth, Robert, consorte (Elizabeth, Sara) 3:21 2 Cecil informs Elizabeth that, despite Nottingham’s – pessimistic one moment, optimistic the next – wishes Nottingham) 7:06 vigorous defence, Essex has been sentenced to death. In only to clear Sara’s reputation. 4 Aria: L’amor suo mi fè beata (Elizabeth) 3:08 5 Scellerato! (Nottingham, Robert, Elizabeth, private, Raleigh tells her that Essex did not return home 5 Cecil, Raleigh, Chorus) 7:05 0 Essex swears to the absent Nottingham that his wife is Nunzio son del parlamento (Cecil, Sara, till dawn. Concealed on his body was the blue scarf, which Elizabeth, A Page, Raleigh, Chorus) 4:12 Raleigh produces. Elizabeth is immediately suspicious. chaste. Act 3 6 Donna reale (Robert, Elizabeth) 4:43 6 Duet: Né riede ancora il mio consorte! 3 As Raleigh leaves, Nottingham enters with the death ! The sound of footsteps and of a lock turning signal a (Sara, A Servant, Nottingham) 4:05 reprieve, or so Essex thinks; but the guards have come to 7 Duet: Un tenero core mi rese felice warrant. He begs for mercy on behalf of his friend. 7 Non sai che un nume vindice escort him to his execution. His breast bathed in tears, (Elizabeth, Robert) 3:42 Elizabeth is adamant that Essex should die. (Nottingham, Sara) 4:40 stained with his blood, Essex in heaven will beseech God 8 Un lampo orribile (Elizabeth, Robert) 3:02 4 Essex is brought in, under guard. Elizabeth shows him 8 All’ambascia ond’io mi struggo (Sara, to help his beloved. The guards promise him the cruellest 9 Roberto … ! (Nottingham, Robert) 3:06 the scarf as evidence of his perfidy. Nottingham of deaths. Nottingham) 3:23 recognises it, and is appalled. The action freezes as all 0 Forse in quel cor sensibile (Nottingham, 9 Ed ancor la tremenda porta – non si three take in the situation … Scene 3: The Palace of Westminster Robert) 2:54 dischiude? (Robert) 4:26 ! Duca, vieni (Cecil, Nottingham, Robert, 0 Aria: Come uno spirto angelico (Robert) 2:29 5 … but explodes as Nottingham demands a sword for @ Elizabeth is with her ladies.
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