Antônio Carlos Gomes Lo schiavo (The Slave) opera to libretto by Rodolfo Paravicini. Directed 2019 by Davide Garattini Raimondi at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. Stars Svetla Vassileva (Ilàra), Massimiliano Pisapia (Américo), Andrea Borghini (Iberè), Elisa Balbo (La contesa di Boissy), Daniele Terenzi (Gianfèra), Dongho Kim (Il conte Rodrigo/Goitacà), Marco Puggioni (Guarûco), Francesco Musinu (Tupinambà/Lion), and Michelangelo Romero (Tapacoà). John Neschling conducts the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Chorus Master Donato Sivo). Set design by Tiziano Santi; costume design by Domenico FraHere’s a trailer from Dynamic:nchi; light design by Alessandro Verazzi; choreography by Luigia Frattaroli. Directed for TV by Tiziano Mancini. Recording engineers Claudio Speranzini and Antonio Martino. Teatro Lirico sound engineers are Antonio Ferraro, Stefano Melis, and Stefano Piras. Sung in Italian. Released 2019, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
Per Mark Pullinger at pages 87-88 of the January 2020 Gramophone, Gomes was a Brazilian composer who had four operas premiered at La Scala. In Lo schiavo a rich plantation-owner’s son gets to run off with the beautiful aboriginal slave girl over lots of objections. Pullinger praises the score and the singers, saying that the production is “good by the standard of provincial Italian houses.” In January 2020, this title also received the Gramophone Editor’s Choice for best Blu-ray of the month. The official Dynamic trailer below also makes this look like another buried treasure that may finally get fame it deserves through the magic of an HDVD recording:
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