Record debut: A soprano and a tenor at the top of their game

Record debut: A soprano and a tenor at the top of their game

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norman lebrecht

August 11, 2017

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Now here’s a surprise. A new release from the Opera Rara label usually consists of some bel canto work that has languished forgotten in a vault since its premiere 160 years ago, and usually for good reason (as becomes apparent when you’re halfway through the unreviewable second disc). This package, though, is different: a pair of debut releases by two fast-rising singers, soprano and tenor, mingling well-known arias with the fairly obscure.

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Sample:

Interview here.

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