Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana to a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzeti and Guido Menasci. Directed 2019 by Luigi Di Gangi & Ugo Giacomazzi at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Stars Alexia Voulgaridou (Santuzza), Marina Ogii (Lola), Angelo Villari (Turiddu), Devid Cecconi (Compar Alfio), Elena Zilio (Mamma Lucia), and Cristina Pagliai (Una donna). Valerio Galli conducts the Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Chorus Master Lorenzo Fratini). Set design by Federica Parolini; costume design by Agnese Rabatti; lighting design by Luigi Biondi. Directed for TV by Matteo Ricchetti; sound recording by Rino Trasi and Vera Zanotti. Sung in Italian. Released 2019, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: D
This is pretty expensive disc with a 90-minute, one-act opera on a disc that can hold 4+ hours of music. And there’s no lack of competition offering more music with internationally famous singers. Hugo Shirley, writing in the October 2019 Gramophone at page 97 states this is not competitive with the current video or audio recordings. Twice the cost and half the fun. In this situation, we give this a D for poor value, i.e. don’t buy this unless you have a special reason.
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