Bel Raggio (Rossini Arias) Aleksandra Kurzak

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Album info

Album-Release:
2013

HRA-Release:
27.03.2013

Label: Decca Classics

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Aleksandra Kurzak, Pier Giorgio Morandi & Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra

Composer: Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

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  • 1 'Bel raggio lusinghier' 07:25
  • 2 'S'allontanano alfin!....Selva opaca, deserta brughiera' 08:34
  • 3 'Gran Dio! Deh, tu proteggi il mio prode campion... Giusto Dio che umile adoro' 08:23
  • 4 'Ami alfine? E chi non ama?...Tace la tromba altera' 08:30
  • 5 'L'ora fatal s'appressa...Giusto ciel' 05:43
  • 6 'Dunque io son... tu non m'inganni?' 05:12
  • 7 'O tranquillo soggiorno...Ogetto amabile' 08:49
  • 8 'Sento un’interna voce' 06:02
  • 9 'I vostri cenci vi mando... Squallida veste, e bruna… Caro padre, madre amata' 09:42
  • Total Runtime 01:08:20

Info for Bel Raggio (Rossini Arias)

Somewhat confusingly, three of Rossini’s heroines are named Matilde, and all are represented here. The earliest of them appears in Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra (1815), the opera that opened Rossini’s Neapolitan period and a work just predating such popular scores as Barbiere and La Cenerentola. The name reappears as the heroine of Rossini’s operatic swansong, Guillaume Tell (1829), written for Paris in French but recorded here in its Italian version as Guglielmo Tell. “I’d love to sing it in the theatre. This is very mature music, showing the new direction that Rossini might have taken. But I must admit that when I’m preparing new roles I never worry too much about where they belong in a composer’s output. I concentrate hard on the technical side when working with my teacher, who also happens to be my mother” — the distinguished soprano Jolanta Żmurko — “but otherwise I need to keep things fresh and free for the interpretation to flow.”

The great showpiece “Bel raggio lusinghier” also puts the title role of Semiramide (1823) on Kurzak’s wish-list. “Because it was made famous by Joan Sutherland, I’ve followed her very beautiful ornamentation.” A rarely performed masterpiece on account of its challenges, its music is still much better known than Pamira’s aria from Le Siège de Corinthe (1826 — also heard here in an Italian version). And though Sigismondo (1814) has been described by the Rossini authority Richard Osborne as “arguably Rossini’s most unrevivable serious opera”, it is represented here for a good reason: the title character is the King of Poland. Kurzak includes an aria for Sigismondo’s wife Aldimira, the daughter of the King of Hungary, “to leave a small Polish mark on this recording”.

Even growing up around an opera house—thanks not only to her mother, but also because her father played French horn in the orchestra — Kurzak had few early opportunities to hear Rossini and has recollections from that time only really of L’italiana in Algeri. Yet despite there not being much of a Rossini tradition in Poland, she has earned her place alongside another Polish star, the contralto Ewa Podles ́, in the ranks of internationally acclaimed Rossinians. As she prepares new roles that may take her away from this composer, he will always occupy a unique place in her affections: “There is only one Rossini!” (John Allison)

“Kurzak is a dazzling new star” (The Sunday Times)

“A superstar in the making, as I noted here after her Adina in last year’s L’elisir d’amore, Kurzak fills the house with her thrillingly pure, warm voice and acts the rest of the cast off the stage. It is a rare moment, indeed, when an opera singer can change the mood with a flash of an eye, the tiniest gesture of disdain.” (The Guardian)

“A Commanding Vocal Presence” (The Independent)

Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano
Artur Rucinski, bass-baritone
Warsaw Chamber Choir
Sinfonia Varsovia
Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor


Aleksandra Kurzak
Schon mit sieben Jahren begann die musikalische Ausbildung von Aleksandra Kurzak mit Violinen- und Klavierunterricht. Ihr Gesangstudium absolvierte sie an der Musikhochschule Breslau, später an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, wo sie parallel im Opernstudio der Hamburgischen Staatsoper ausgebildet wurde.Mit 21 Jahren, noch als Studentin hat die mehrfache Preisträgerin von Wettbewerben in Warschau, Helsinki, Barcelona und Kanton an der Staatsoper in Breslau als Susanna in Mozarts Le Nozze di Figaro an der Seite ihrer Mutter und Gesangslehrerin Jolanta Żmurko debütiert. Im 2009 hat sie den Doktortitel im Musikbereich bekommen.

Von 2004 bis 2007 war die Sopranistin Ensemblemitglied der Hamburgischen Staatsoper. Dort war sie in vielen Rollen zu hören, darunter Königin der Nacht, Blondchen, Susanna, Servilia, Marzelline (Fidelio), Nanetta (Falstaff), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Gilda, Adele, Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Maid (Powder her Face), Musetta, Cleopatra, Fiorilla (Turco in Italia) und Marie (La Fille du Régiment). 2006 wurde sie mit dem Oberdörffer-Preis der Stiftung zur Förderung der Hamburgischen Staatsoper ausgezeichnet.

Mit nur 27 Jahren debütierte die Sängerin an der Metropolitan Opera als Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann und am Londoner Royal Opera House als Aspasia in Mitridate Re di Ponto.

Im Februar 2010 debütierte Kurzak im Teatro alla Scala ald Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto.

Aleksandra Kurzak ist wieder an die MET zurückgekehrt und hat als Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Gilda Gretel und Adina aufgetreten. Seit ihrem Londoner Debüt kehrt Aleksandra Kurzak regelmäßig an das ROH zurück, das zu ihrem Stammhaus geworden ist. Dort konnte sie mit Partien wie Norina in Don Pasquale, Adina L’elisir d’amore, Susanna, Matilde in Matilde di Shabran große Erfolge feiern und zuletzt als Donna Fiorilla, Rosina, Gilda und Lucia. Gastengagements brachten die Künstlerin unter anderem an die Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Königin der Nacht), ans Teatro Regio in Parma und Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Gilda), an die Bayerische Staatsoper (Cleopatra, Adele, Rosina, Donna Fiorilla, Adina und Rachel), ans Teatro Regio in Torino (Violetta), ans Palau de les Arts in Valencia (Adina), an die Wiener Staatsoper (Rosina, Adina, Susanna, Marie, Violetta, Gilda), ans Teatro Real in Madrid (Susanna, Marie), ans Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Norina), ans Teatro Massimo di Bellini in Catania, ans Lyric Opera House in Chicago (Blonde) und zu den Salzburger Festspielen (Mozart-Matinee, Ännchen und Donna Anna), ans Mozart Festival in A Coruña und an die Welsh National Opera in Cardiff (Aspasia), an die National Oper in Helsinki (Gilda), an die National Oper in Warschau (Gilda, Violetta, Lucia), ans Teatro La Fenice in Venedig (Donna Anna), ans Theater an der Wien (Donna Anna und Amenaide) und an die Seattle Opera (Lucia), San Francisco Opera (Gilda), Los Angeles Opera (Fiordiligi) und Arena di Verona (Rosina, Juliette, Gilda, Verdi-Gala), Opernhaus in Zürich (Gilda, Norina, Nedda), Opera de Paris (Adina), Teatro alla Scala (Susanna, Adele in Le Comte Ory).

Sie hat mit Dirigenten wie Ivor Bolton, Bruno Campanella, James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davis, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Riccardo Frizza, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, René Jacobs, Fabio Luisi, Nicola Luisotti, Sir Charles Mackerras, Ingo Metzmacher, Daniel Oren, Antonio Pappano, Carlo Rizzi, Ralf Weikert, Simone Young gearbeitet.

Aleksandra Kurzak hat den exclusieven Vertrag mit DECCA unterschrieben. In der Spielzeit 2016/2017 wird die Sängerin noch als Mimi an der Staatsoper in Berlin, Micaela in der Opera de Paris, Adina an der Deutsche Oper Berlin, und als Adina und Liu am ROH in London auftretten.



Booklet for Bel Raggio (Rossini Arias)

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