LEONCAVALLO Zazà (2 CDs, BONGIOVANNI) FRONTALINI Rome Phlharmonic [unabridged]

Description: Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera, Zazà, with a libretto by the composer, tells the story of the French music hall singer, Zazà [dzadˈ dza], and her affair and subsequent decision to leave her lover, Milio, when she discovers that he is married. The music is influenced by the French music halls where Leoncavallo had spent his early years as a composer. Its premiere was at the Teatro Lirico di Milan on 10 November 1900, starring Rosina Storchio as Zazà, Edoardo Garbin as Milio, Mario Sammarco as Cascart and Clorinda Pini-Corsi as Anaide, and conducted by Arturo Toscanini. It was later seen in opera houses around the world. Over the following twenty years it received over fifty new productions from Palermo to Paris, Buenos Aires to Moscow, Cairo to San Francisco, arriving at the Metropolitan Opera on 16 January 1920 in a production directed by David Belasco and conducted by Roberto Moranzoni, starring Geraldine Farrar, Giulio Crimi and Pasquale Amato, and later, Giovanni Martinelli and Giuseppe De Luca. La bohème and Zazà are the operas of Leoncavallo's which most nearly matched the success of Pagliacci, although Zazà enjoys few contemporary productions, and is relatively little-known beyond circles of Opera enthusiasts. ZazàbyRuggiero LeoncavalloUNABRIDGED VERSION FIRST RELEASEZazà - Lisa HoubenMilio Dufresne - Sergio PanajiaCascart - Barry AndersonMamma Anaide - Lucia MastromarinoFloriana - Annalisa ScanoSignora Dufresne - Gaia HubbardNatalia - Susanna BranchiniTotò - Maria Debora FarinaCourtois - Valerio MarchettiBussy - Domenico BalzaniAugusto - Enrico StinchelliMarco - Enrico StinchelliClaretta - Susanna BranchiniMalardot - Daniele GianniniLartigon - Valerio MarchettiDuclou - Jean François VinciguerraMichelin - Michelangelo IachettiSilvano Frontalini, conductorOrchestra e Coro del Filarmonica di Roma STUDIO Recording: Rome (September-December 2000)

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