JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ

Arias For Rubini

 

1-3. Bellini Il Pirata

Nel furor delle tempeste... per te di vana lacrime

4-6. Rossini Elisabetta Regina

Che intesi!... Vendicar sapro l'offesa

7-9. Donizetti Marin Faliero

No, no dabbandonarla... Ma un solo conforto

10-11. Rossini Il Turco in Italia

Intesi... Se il mio rival

12-16. Bellini Bianca e Fernando

Tutti siam... Odo il tuo pianto 17-19. Rossini La Donna del Lago

Pace non trovo o ciel... Ah come nascondere

20-23. Rossini Guglielmo Tell

Non mi lasciare... Corriam! voliam

 

Timing: 71:41

 

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Robert Abbado                 

 

Recorded: 2007 in Rome

 

'The King of the High Ds' celebrates the first superstar tenor with this disc of beautiful and thrilling arias by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.

 

Juan Diego Flórez is THE tenor for bel canto operas; the first choice for any new production at the world's great opera houses. Juan Diego Flórez pays tribute to an extraordinary predecessor who inspired some of his greatest stage roles and became the first 'superstar tenor': Giovanni Battista Rubini.

 

Like Flórez today, Rubini was loved as much for the touching pathos of his slow singing as for the thrilling power of his fast, high roulades. Roles the two singers have shared include the Prince in Rossini's La Cenerentola, Elvino in Bellini's La sonnambula, Arturo in Bellini's I puritani, Uberto in Rossini's La donna del lago and the title role of Rossini's Otello.

 

Many of the arias by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti on this new recording with the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome under Roberto Abbado, are unknown gems which show the tremendous range of Flórez's vocal and dramatic art.

 

Decca 4759079