Verdi: La Traviata / Oropesa, Oren, Dresden Philharmonic

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May 27, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Giuseppe Verdi
    • PERFORMER
      Dresdner Philharmonie, Lisette Oropesa, Rene Barbera, Ilseyar Khayrullova, Lester Lynch, Alexander K
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 27, 2022
    • UPC
      827949095665
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186956
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Prelude

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    2. Act I: Dell'invito trascorsa è gia l'orà (Chorus, Violetta, Flora, Marchese, Barone, Dottore, Gastone, Alfredo)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lisette Oropesa, Ilseyar Khayrullova, Biagio Pizzuti, Allen Boxer, Alexander Köpeczy, Francesco Pittari, René Barbera

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    3. Act I: Libiamo, ne' lieti calci, "Brindisi" (Drinking Song) (Alfredo, Flora, Gastone, Barone, Dottore, Marchese, Chorus, Violetta)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: René Barbera, Ilseyar Khayrullova, Francesco Pittari, Allen Boxer, Alexander Köpeczy, Biagio Pizzuti, Lisette Oropesa

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    4. Act I: Waltz: Chè e ciò? - Duet: Un dì, felice, eterea (Flora, Alfredo, Gastone, Barone, Dottore, Marchese, Chorus, Violetta)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Ilseyar Khayrullova, René Barbera, Francesco Pittari, Allen Boxer, Alexander Köpeczy, Biagio Pizzuti, Lisette Oropesa

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    5. Act I: Si ridesta in ciel l'aurora (Flora, Gastone, Barone, Dottore, Marchese, Chorus)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Ilseyar Khayrullova, Francesco Pittari, Allen Boxer, Alexander Köpeczy, Biagio Pizzuti

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    6. Act I: È strano! - Ah, fors'è lui (Violetta, Alfredo)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lisette Oropesa, René Barbera

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    7. Act II Scene 1: Lunge da lei - De' miei bollenti spiriti (Alfredo, Annina)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: René Barbera, Menna Cazel

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    8. Act II Scene 1: Alfredo? - Pura siccome un angelo - Ah! Dite alla giovine (Violetta, Annina, Giuseppe, Germont)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lisette Oropesa, Menna Cazel, Tobias Schrader, Lester Lynch

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    9. Act II Scene 1: Dammi tu forza, o cielo! - Amami, Alfredo (Violetta, Annina, Alfredo)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lisette Oropesa, Menna Cazel, René Barbera

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    10. Act II Scene 1: Ah, vive sol quel core - Di Provenza il mar (Alfredo, Giuseppe, Commissionario, Germont)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: René Barbera, Tobias Schrader, Alexander Födisch, Lester Lynch

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    11. Act II Scene 2: Avrem lieta di maschere la notte (Flora, Marchese, Dottore)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Ilseyar Khayrullova, Biagio Pizzuti, Alexander Köpeczy

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    12. Act II Scene 2: Noi siamo zingarelle (Chorus, Marchese, Flora, Dottore)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Biagio Pizzuti, Ilseyar Khayrullova, Alexander Köpeczy

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    13. Act II Scene 2: Di Madride noi siam mattadori (Gastone, Chorus, Flora, Dottore, Marchese)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Francesco Pittari, Ilseyar Khayrullova, Alexander Köpeczy, Biagio Pizzuti

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    14. Act II Scene 2: Alfredo! Voi! (Flora, Gastone, Dottore, Marchese, Chorus, Alfredo, Barone)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Ilseyar Khayrullova, Francesco Pittari, Alexander Köpeczy, Biagio Pizzuti, René Barbera, Allen Boxer

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    15. Act II Scene 2: Qui desiata giungi (Flora, Violetta, Barone, Alfredo, Gastone, Marchese, Chorus, Dottore, Servo)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Ilseyar Khayrullova, Lisette Oropesa, Allen Boxer, René Barbera, Francesco Pittari, Biagio Pizzuti, Alexander Köpeczy, Reinhold Schreyer-Morlock

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    16. Act II Scene 2: Invitato a qui seguirmi (Violetta, Alfredo, Flora, Gastone, Barone, Dottore, Marchese, Chorus)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lisette Oropesa, René Barbera, Ilseyar Khayrullova, Francesco Pittari, Allen Boxer, Alexander Köpeczy, Biagio Pizzuti

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    17. Act II Scene 2: Oh, infamia orribile (Gastone, Barone, Dottore, Marchese, Chorus)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Francesco Pittari, Allen Boxer, Alexander Köpeczy, Biagio Pizzuti

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    18. Act II Scene 2: Di sprezzo degno sè stesso rende (Germont, Alfredo, Flora, Gastone, Dottore, Marchese, Chorus, Barone, Violetta)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lester Lynch, René Barbera, Ilseyar Khayrullova, Francesco Pittari, Alexander Köpeczy, Biagio Pizzuti, Allen Boxer, Lisette Oropesa

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    19. Act III: Prelude

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    20. Act III: Annina? … Comandate? (Violetta, Annina, Dottore)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lisette Oropesa, Menna Cazel, Alexander Köpeczy

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    21. Act III: Teneste la promessa… - Attendo, attendo (Violetta)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lisette Oropesa

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    22. Act III: Addio, del passato (Violetta)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lisette Oropesa

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    23. Act III: Largo al quadrupede (Chorus)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresden Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresdner Philharmonie

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    24. Act III: Signora! … Che t'accadde? - Parigi, o cara (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Menna Cazel, Lisette Oropesa, René Barbera

      Conductor: Daniel Oren

    25. Act III: Ah, Violetta! … Voi, Signor! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo, Annina, Dottore)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Dresdner Philharmonie

      Performer: Lester Lynch, Lisette Oropesa, René Barbera, Menna Cazel, Alexander Köpeczy

      Conductor: Daniel Oren


Featured in the New York Times' "5 Classical Albums You Can Listen To Right Now"

The Dresdener Philharmonie, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden and conductor Daniel Oren present Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata, together with a stellar cast including René Barbera as Alfredo, Lester Lynch as Germont, and world star soprano Lisette Oropesa as Violetta. Verdi’s opera from 1853 was revolutionary in the sense that it presented a subject of its own time, rather than the usual historically-remote stories. Interestingly enough, this tragic story of a woman sacrificing her love to save the honor of her beloved’s family still feels as fresh and topical as ever before, explaining its unrelenting popularity. La Travatia is an endless outpour of memorable melodies with a gripping dramatic pace, as well as a tale that is both heartrending and provocative. The main soprano role gradually shifts from coloratura virtuosity to a more lyrical, dramatic idiom when the tragedy progresses, and this performance shows Oropesa’s fluency in both styles. After having sung the title role in the greatest opera houses worldwide, this studio recording captures her unparalleled interpretation for generations to come. Star soprano Lisette Oropesa made her PENTATONE debut with Ombra Compagna; Mozart Concert Arias in 2021. Lester Lynch has a vast PENTATONE discography, including Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, La Fanciulla del West (both 2021) and Il Tabarro (2020), as well as Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (2020) and Verdi’s Otello (2017). The Dresdener Philharmonie featured on those recordings of Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, while also releasing acclaimed recordings of Beethoven’s Fidelio (2021) and Weber’s Der Freischütz (2019) on PENTATONE. Daniel Oren and René Barbera, who both enjoy a thriving career on the operatic stage, make their PENTATONE debut.

REVIEW:

Daniel Oren, now in his mid-sixties, has had an important international career since he won first prize in the first Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition in 1975. He knows how to build up the prelude from an atmospheric murmuring of the strings to the caressing love theme and then back to a soft end, but as the curtain opens, he shifts gear to a swift, exuberant party mood where everyone is in high spirits. Maybe the rhythms are too accentuated, too rustic for a Parisian upper-class festivity, but one feels the pulsating fervour.

Alfredo sings his Brindisi with his light lyric tenor and Violetta responds with easy effortless tones. Un di, felice is soft, almost dreamlike and very sensitively nuanced, and then comes Violetta’s grand aria: È strano, sensitively, almost hesitatingly, stunned by the sudden feeling of love she has never experienced before; Ah! fors'è lui, beautifully sung and filled with expectations; then she has second thoughts: Follie – This is madness – Sempre libera – Free and aimless I shall flutter. But when she repeats this stanza, she hears Alfredo echo her words from earlier, and even though she adheres to her decision we know that love is going to win...It was a long time since I was so spellbound by this scene.

The playing of the orchestra cannot be faulted and Pentatone’s sound staff deliver an expert recording. Lisette Oropesa...should be heard by every lover of this opera.

-- MusicWeb International

Lisette Oropesa makes for a lovely Violetta, with a quick, touchingly fragile vibrato and a jewel-like voice that catches light in beautiful ways. She can dash off high D flats as a steely, love-averse courtesan in Act I, and move a solo oboe to tears in “Addio del passato” come Act III.

Daniel Oren, more interested in small gestures than gleaming sound, begins the first scene with bumptious brasses and a breakneck tempo that make the room spin, spelling disaster for Verdi’s hard-partying demimondaine. Unwritten flourishes — a crescendo here, some rubato there — add to the impetuous atmosphere.

“La Traviata” rises or falls on the strength of its heroine, and this one soars.

-- New York Times (Oussama Zahr)