Lucia Aliberti, Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Milan
Release Date: 24 June 2013
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Hard Back book
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917258929
Genres: Classical
Description
The celebrated Italian soprano Lucia Aliberti presents arias by twelve Verdi heroines from some of the composer's lesser-known early operas. The collection includes music from I Vespri Siciliani, I Masnadieri, Alzira, Attila, Aroldo, I Lombardi, Giovanna d'Arco, Un Giorno di Regno, La Battaglia di Legnano, Ernani, I Due Foscari and Macbeth.
Italian soprano Lucia Aliberti was born in September, 1961 in Sicily. She is especially renowned for her performances in the bel canto roles in operas by Verdi, Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, and Puccini. As a young singer she studied with Luigi Ricci and the great Alfredo Krauss. After winning the Spoleto and Enal competitions she began her artistic career in Spoleto at the "Festival dei Due Mondi" under the direction of Giancarlo Menotti. Since then she has appeared at all of the world's great opera houses and festivals. Lucia Aliberti is also a multi-instrumentalist and composer and has written several works for piano, clarinet, flute, and voice.
Personnel: Lucia Aliberti (soprano), Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Oleg Caetani (conductor)
Tracklisting
Narratio Quartet
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Simona Marchesi, Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi
Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
Richard Casey, Annabelle Lawson, Joanna Lam, Peter Lawson, Stephen Plews, Jean Hasse, David Owen Norris, John McCabe, Aleksander Szram
Duncan Honeybourne, Helen Cawthorne
Maria Callas
Mayke Rademakers
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Lisa Illean, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, GBSR Duo, Juliet Fraser, Explore Ensemble
Narratio Quartet
