Armida

 

Rossini Armida opera to libretto by Giovanni Schmidt. Directed 2015 by Mariame Clément at the Vaanderen Opera House. Stars Carmen Romeu (Armida), Enea Scala (Rinaldo), Robert McPherson (Gernando/Ubaldo), Dario Schmunck (Goffredo/Carlo), Leonard Bernad (Idraote/Astarotte), and Adam Smith (Eustazio). Alberto Zedda conducts the Vaanderen Opera House Symphony Orchestra and Opera Chorus (Chorus Master Jan Schweiger). Set and costume design by Julia Hansen; lighting by Bernd Purkrabek. Directed for TV by Jan Bosteels. Released 2017, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

Richard Osborne, writing in the April 2017 Gramophone at page 115 praises the singers, but lambasts the "silly" and "insipid" production with weak sets and costumes.

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