Donizetti Linda di Chamounix opera to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. Directed 2021 by Cesare Lievi at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Stars Jessica Pratt (Linda), Teresa Iervolino (PIerotto [Orphan Youth]), Francesco Demuro [Carlo, Visconte di Sirval]), Vittorio Prato (Linda’s Father), Marina De Liso (Linda’s Mother, Maddalena), Fabio Capitanucci (Marquis di Boisfleury), Michele Pertusi (Prefect), Antonia Garés (Intendant), as well as extras Elena Barsolti, Marie Lucia Bianchi, Paolo Arcangeli, Andrea Bassi, Lorenzo Cencetti, Cristiano Colangelo, Giacomo Dominici, Francesco Grossi, Filippo Lai, and Lorenzo Terenzi. Michele Gamba conducts the Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Chorus Master Lorenzo Fratini). Set and costume design by Luigi Perego; lighting design by Luigi Saccomandi. Directed for TV by Matteo Ricchetti; sound recorded by Rino Trasi, Giuseppe Famularo, and Vera Zanotti. Sung in Italian. Released 2021, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
This is bel canto melodrama: Linda, a pretty farm girl, is in love with Carlo, a starving artist (who is really a nobleman). When the lecherous landlord wants to Linda to pay the rent in bed, she flees to Paris. Many misadventures. Linda goes crazy and returns to home for a mad scene. But true Carlo awaits. She gets her mind back + a title!
Print critics saw this streamed in the middle of the covidemic. In February 2021, Stephen Hastings reported for www.operanews.org that the cast was “one of the best available.” Along with the usual bel canto grief and glee, the naughty landlord (di Boisfleury) has “some of the funniest lines in Italian opera irresistibly delivered by Fabio Capitanucci.” Also approving was Lorenzo Fiorito giving this 4 of 5 stars for bachtrack.com. So this appears to be more buried bel canto treasure from Dynamic.
Here is the Dynamic trailer:
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