Amor Fatale: Rossini Arias (CD) – Marina Rebeka

Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Artists: Marina Rebeka, Julia Heiler, Levy Sekgapane, Gianluca Margheri, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Number of Discs: 1
Label: BR Klassik
CD Release Date: September 13, 2017

Marina Rebeka is one of the most successful sopranos of her generation. The album Amor fatale offers the opportunity to reacquaint oneself with the great soprano arias from Rossini’s less well-known but musically convincing tragic operas, in a fine interpretation.

The album focuses on powerful female roles from the operas Otello, Armida, La donna del lago, Maometto II, Semiramide, Moïse et Pharaon, and Guillaume Tell. The women are obliged to choose between love and duty, and frequently must subordinate their personal fate to that of their family, nation or homeland.

The Latvian soprano has quite some experience with roles in Rossini, above all from his great tragic operas: the role of Anna Erisso from Maometto II, which she performed in 2008 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, marked the very start of her career. She went on to attract international attention in 2009 when she debuted at the Salzburg Festival, as Anaï in Moïse et Pharaon.

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