Levy Sekgapane, Munchner Rundfunkorchester & Giacomo Sagripa
Release Date: 16 August 2019
Label: Prima Classic
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 850000325036
Description
Operalia's First Prize winner in 2017, the young South African tenor Levy Sekgapane releases his debut album, 'Giovin Fiamma', featuring Rossini arias, on Prima Classics. He is accompanied by the Munchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti (Young Conductor winner in the 2016 International Opera Awards).
"His lean, shiny tenor offers the impressive flexibility, fearless high notes and combustible, open-hearted ardor that best serves the composer's work" —Opera News, USA. Critic's Choice Recording
Very much a rising star internationally and wonderfully suited to the Rossinian style, Levy Sekgapane brings freshness, clarity and thrilling and seductive vocal qualities to this Prima Classic recording. It combines arias from nine different Rossini operas, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Semiramide, Otello, La donna del lago, Zelmira, Il Turco in Italia and Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra. The Italian composer wrote these for three particular and very different singers: Giovanni Davide, Manuel GarcÃa, and Andrea Nozzari.
Besides winning Plácido Domingo's Operalia, Levy Sekgapane has also taken the top prizes in the Belvedere Singing Competition and the Monserrat Caballé International Competition amongst others.
Following his appearances as Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the 2019 Glyndebourne Festival, he will make his Salzburg Festival debut in Mozart's Idomeneo, a Peter Sellars' production conducted by Teodor Currentzis, in late July/August before returning once again to the Rossini role at the Teatro Massimo Palermo the following month. In October/November, he takes to the Wexford Festival Opera stage in the little-known Rossini opera, Adina.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"If this excellent calling card is something to reckon with, this young South African should be able to elbow his way to the forefront in the lyric tenor trade. Lovers of Rossini and/or lovers of good tenor singing should have their fill here. The playing of the Munich Radio Orchestra is fully worthy of the occasion and the recording is excellent. Place your orders, music lovers!" - Göran Forsling, MusicWeb International
" Levy Sekgapane is a tenor with a very special, bright, youthful timbre. This young tenor can really seduce you with his voice. " — Klassik begeistert – Silverstergala – Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Tracklisting
Olga Jegunova
Javier Camarena, Marina Rebeka, Franco Vassallo & Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Apollo's Cabinet, Alexander Armstrong
Apollo's Cabinet, Juergen Maurer
Marina Rebeka, Wroclaw Opera Orchestra, Marco Boemi
Marina Rebeka & Mathieu Pordoy
Anders Miolin
Marina Rebeka, Charles Castronovo, George Petean, Latvian Festival Orchestra, State Choir Latvija & Michael Balke
Maria Callas
Soloists; Eroica Berlin; Jakob Lehmann
Luigi De Donato; Collegium 1704; Vaclav Luks
Anna Moffo; Cesare Valletti; Fernando Corena; Erich Leinsdorf
Soloists; Orchestre classique de Montreal; Alain Trudel
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi, Natalia Rubis, Pawel Konik, Krzysztof Baczyk, Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi, Jan Martinik, Olga Pasiecznik, Stanislav Kufliuk, Mariusz Godlewski, Adam Palka, Podlasie Opera Philharmonic Choir
The Norwegian National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Terje Boye Hansen
