Balfe: Satanella / Bonynge, Victorian Opera Orchestra

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
March 11, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BALFE, MICHAEL WILLIAM
    • PERFORMER
      Wang, Hayes, Gregory, Bowes, Church, Silver, Tocci, Carby, Sikora
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Satanella

      Composer: Michael Balfe

      Ensemble: John Powell Singers, Victorian Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Travor Bowes (Bass), Catherine Carby (Soprano), Frank Church (Baritone), Anthony Gregory (Baritone), Quentin Hayes (Baritone), Elizabeth Sikora (Mezzo Soprano), Sally Silver (Soprano), Christine Tocci (Mezzo Soprano), Kang Wang (Tenor)

      Conductor: Richard Bonynge


Composer Michael William Balfe composed 29 operas, and around 250 other pieces. He is best known for his opera The Bohemian Girl. Balfe’s opera Satanella was his 23rd opera, and was premiered at Covent Garden in 1858. The work is a hybrid of classical opera tradition and stand-alone songs. This release is performed by the John Powell Singers and the Victorian Opera Orchestra under the direction of Richard Bonynge.

Review:

Bonynge is unsurpassed in this repertoire; he keeps it zipping buoyantly along, effortlessly supporting his singers and clearly relishing every baleful horn call, rippling harp and languishing cello solo. His cast, too, feels near-ideal. The young Chinese-born tenor Kang Wang is a Rupert of considerable dash, and Sally Silver sings the title-role…with sweetness and sparkle.

– Gramophone