Gaetano Donizetti - La favorite album flac

The opera concerns the romantic struggles of the King of Castile, Alfonso XI and his mistress, the "favourite" Leonora, against the backdrop of the political wiles of receding Moorish Spain and the life of the Catholic Church

Artists' Vocal Album (p. 3-43) Boston: White, Smith & C. 1887. Arrangements and Transcriptions. I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IGD 29. v'ts/Sec's.

Act 1. Scene 1. Pieux monastère! Gaetano Donizetti. Vesselina Kasarova, Ramón Vargas, Marcello Viotti. 3. Act 1. Scene 2. Parle, mon fils: Un ange.

Donizetti: La Favorita. Donizetti: Gemma Di Vergy (Remastered).

One of Donizetti’s finest music dramas, it was written at his peak as an orchestrator. The Italian, and better-known version, evolved two years after the French premiere and has become the more-performed version, exemplified by this famous 1974 recording starring Luciano Pavarotti, Fiorenza Cossotto, Gabriel Bacquier and Nicolai Ghiaurov. Pavarotti's voice has been called "youthful and fresh" on this album

It premiered on 2 December 1840 at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris, France. Originally, Donizetti had been composing an opera by the name of Le Duc d'Albe as his second work for the Opera in Paris

Dmitry Hvorostovsky - Bel Canto Arias. Gaetano Donizetti (extract:) Le duc d'Albe. 4. A tanto amor, Leonora (Alfonso), III. Gaetano Donizetti (extract:) Poliuto. Gaetano Donizetti (extract:) Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal. 11. O Lisbona alfin ti miro (Don Sebastiano, Re del Portogallo), III. Gaetano Donizetti (extract:) Lucia di Lammermoor. 12. Cruda funesta smania (Enrico), I.