Gaspare Spontini Fernand Cortez, ou la Conquête du Mexique (“Hernán Cortés, or The Conquest of Mexico”) opera to a libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Joseph-Alphonse d’Esménard. Directed 2019 by Cecilia Ligorio at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Stars Dario Schmunck (Fernand Cortez), Luca Lombardo (Télasco), David Ferri Durà (Alvar), André Courville (Le Grand Prètre des Mexicains), Gianluca Margheri (Moralez), Lisandro Guinis (Un Officier Espagnol), David Ciarrocchi and Nicolò Ayroldi (Deux Prisonniers Espagnols), Leonardo Melani (Un Officier Mexicain), Davide Siega (Un Marin), Alexia Voulgaridou (Amazily), and Silvia Capra and Delia Palmieri (Deux Femmes de la Suite d’Amazily). Also stars dancers from Compagnia Nuovo BallettO di ToscanA (Artistic Director Cristina Bozzolini). Jean-Luc Tingaud conducts the Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Chorus Master Lorenzo Fratini). Set design by Massimo Checchetto and Alessia Colosso; costume design by Vera Pierantoni Giua; lighting design by Maria Domènech Gimenez; choreography by Alessio Maria Romano. Directed for TV by Tiziano Mancini. Sung in French. Released 2020, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio. Grade: NA
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