La Gazzetta — HDVDARTS

Rossini La Gazzetta opera to libretto by Giuseppe Palomba. Directed 2014 by Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium. Stars Cinzia Forte (Lisetta), Enrico Marabelli (Don Pomponio), Edgardo Rocha (Alberto), Laurent Kubla (Filippo), Julie Bailly (Doralice), Monica Minarelli (Madama La Rose), Jacques Catalayud (Anselmo), and Roger Joakim (Monsù Traversen). Jan Schultsz conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Chorus Master Marcel Seminara). Set designs by Jean-Guy Lecat; lighting by Franco Marri; costume design by Fernand Ruiz; choreography by Luciana Fumarola. Directed for video direction by Frédéric Caillierez. Sung in Italian. Released 2016, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.