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This live recording, recorded on September 12, 2015, documents a fantastic concert at the Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi by the Museo del Violino of Cremona by stunning Greek soprano Dimitra Theodossiou. Ms. Theodossiou has chosen a spectacular program which brilliantly displays her vocal talent, including compositions by Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo De Meglio, Pietro Mascagni, and Giacomo Puccini. Dimitra Theodossiou is considered one of the most important voices for Verdi and Belcanto repertoire. She came to international fame with her role as Odabella in Attila, and since then has performed many roles in opera houses around the world.

Lullabies, or “Ninna-nanna’s” are some of the most common poetic-musical forms. A genre that has existed for millennia, lullabies have a similar, repetitive style and rhythmic pace regardless of which cultural or geographical region from which the song originates. Composers began to take the “Ninna-nanna,” and transform it into more complex pieces, acquiring two and three part forms. The works, however, never lost that hypnotic, lilting motion. This collection attempts to provide an overview of all forms and styles of the Lullaby. Evocative magical atmospheres transport the listener into dreamy childhood memories, performed by renowned musicians Francesco De Poli and Cesare Sampaolesi.

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The “Opera of Choruses” – as Clotilde was called right from the outset for the importance and quantity included in the drama – as it is a semiseria opera - or, to be more exact, a larmoyante - it is smooth-running and lively. It was staged on illustrious stages (Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Naples’ San Carlo, The Fenice in Venice and L’Opera de Paris) and then slowly declined, overshadowed by the masterpieces of the great Gioachino Rossini, the eternal omnipresent rival of many honest opera composers of that period. Carlo Coccia was born in Naples on 14th April 1782 and died in 1873 in Novara where he had been maestro di cappella since the fourties, obtaining the honor and responsibility of the invitation to write, in representation of his cappella, a Lagrimosa for a great Messa di Requiem desired by Giuseppe Verdi and supported by Arrigo Boito and Giulio Ricordi in honour of Rossini who died in 1868.

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• A rare and historic recording of Nabucco, captured live in 1963 in Orvieto, Italy. • Aldo Protti, was a renowned baritone who's operatic career lasted forty years following his 1948 debut. • This title role performance is otherwise unknown in Mr. Protti's performance discography. • Marcella de Osma, heard here as Abagaille, was a superb Verdian dramatic soprano, active throughout the 1950's and 1960's.

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