Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina Spagnoli, Zhou, Doveri, Coro dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala Orchestra Gli Originali & Seto Quatrini

• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848): Chiara e Serafina:
• 1 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Sinfonia 05:29
• 2 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 1: L'alba in cielo appar già chiara (Chorus, Agnese, Don Meschino, Lisetta) 03:50
• 3 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 2: Colla nassa e col cestello (Don Meschino, Lisetta, Agnese, Chorus) 06:54
• 4 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 3: Grazie pietoso cielo! (Chiara, Don Alvaro) 03:32
• 5 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 3: Cavatina. Queste romite sponde (Chiara, Don Alvaro) 06:37
• 6 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 3: Recitative. Dove siam noi? - Scene 4: Spicciatevi buffoni… (Don Alvaro, Chiara, Don Meschino, Agnese, Lisetta) 02:05
• 7 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 5: Maledetto il temporale (Chorus) 02:47
• 8 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 5: Cavatina. Il mestier del corseggiare (Picaro) 05:45
• 9 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 5: Recitative. Da parte la morale - Scene 6: Chi è costui? (Picaro, Don Fernando) 02:57
• 10 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 7: Duet. Come più dolce il zeffiro (Serafina, Don Ramiro) 03:36
• 11 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 7: Sempre teco! (Serafina, Don Ramiro) 03:36
• 12 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 8: Recitative. Oh evento inaspettato! (Don Fernando, Serafina, Don Ramiro, Picaro) 01:14
• 13 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 9: Musica! Tanto meglio - Scene 10: Siam soli (Picaro, Don Fernando, Don Ramiro, Serafina, Chiara) 02:36
• 14 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 10: Duet. Per vederti, o mia figliuola (Picaro, Serafina) 04:11
• 15 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 10: Deh, perdona, o caro amante (Serafina, Picaro) 05:32
• 16 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 11: Recitative. Ebben? - Si arrese… (Don Fernando, Picaro, Chiara) 00:49
• 17 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 12: Zitti, zitti… entriam bel bello… (Spalatro, Chorus) 01:48
• 18 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 13: Ehi! Lisetta? (Don Meschino, Spalatro) 00:57
• 19 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 13: Aria. Mi dicea la nonna mia - Scene 14: Cos'è stato? Don Meschino! (Don Meschino, Spalatro, Chorus, Lisetta, Agnese, Don Alvaro) 05:30
• 20 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 15: Recitative. Basta, più non si badi alle sue stramberie… (Agnese, Lisetta, Don Alvaro) 00:56
• 21 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 15: Finale. Il castello di Belmonte - Scene 16: Quanta gente! (Lisetta, Agnese, Chorus, Don Meschino, Don Alvaro, Picaro, Serafina) 03:53
• 22 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 16: Quale Inciampo! È qui raccolto (Picaro, Don Alvaro, Serafina, Agnese, Lisetta, Don Meschino) 03:34
• 23 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 16: Don Fernando il mio padrone… (Agnese, Don Meschino, Lisetta, Chorus, Picaro, Serafina, Don Alvaro) 02:56
• 24 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 17: Eccomi alfine… oh gioia! - Scene 18: Alfin la sala è libera (Chiara, Picaro, Don Alvaro) 06:47
• 25 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act I Scene 18: Se ci manchi, se c'inganni - Scene 19: Entrate… - Scene 20: Padre! - Figlia! (Chiara, Picaro, Don Alvaro, Chorus, Serafina, Don Ramiro, Agnese, Lisetta, Don Meschino) 06:38
• 26 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 1: Capitano!... Che avvenne? (Spalatro, Gennaro, Chorus) 03:31
• 27 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 2: Recitative. Spalatro, dal mio fianco non ti partir (Gennaro, Spalatro, Don Meschino, Chorus) 01:18
• 28 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 3: Buona notte… son cotto (Don Meschino, Chiara) 01:08
• 29 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 3: Duet. Ah, signora, l'abbiam fatta! (Don Meschino, Chiara) 02:57
• 30 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 3: Deh, tu guida il piè smarrito (Chiara, Don Meschino) 03:45
• 31 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 4: Recitative. Dove mai mi conduci? - Scene 5: Quale orrendo soggiorno! (Serafina, Picaro) 03:36
• 32 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 5: Aria. Fra quest'ombre, in questo orrore (Serafina) 03:28
• 33 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 5: Ciel! Qual fragore ascolto? - Scene 6: Recitative. Più non ci fuggirete (Serafina, Chorus, Gennaro, Picaro, Chiara, Lisetta, Don Meschino) 02:05
• 34 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 6: Io, tua preda! Oh mio dolore! (Serafina, Gennaro, Picaro, Spalatro, Chorus, Chiara, Lisetta, Don Meschino) 05:25
• 35 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 7: Recitative. Picaro, allegramente, bella preda che hai fatta! (Gennaro, Spalatro, Picaro, Chiara, Don Meschino) 01:17
• 36 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 8: Chiara! Ebbene? - Scene 9: Mia sorella! (Don Meschino, Chiara, Picaro, Serafina, Lisetta) 04:08
• 37 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 10: Tremante, smarrito - Scene 11: Silenzio! Alfine ei scende (Serafina, Lisetta, Chiara, Picaro, Don Ramiro, Don Meschino) 04:01
• 38 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 11: Sextet. Ah! Non credea, mia vita (Don Ramiro, Lisetta, Picaro, Serafina, Chiara, Don Meschino) 03:03
• 39 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 12: Recitative. Picaro, or noi corriamo de' Pirati sull'orme (Don Ramiro, Picaro) 00:38
• 40 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 13: Vittoria, vittoria! - Scene 14: Recitative. Don Ramiro, accorrete - Scene 15: Chiara è con voi (Chorus, Don Meschino, Don Ramiro, Serafina, Don Alvaro, Chiara) 02:52
• 41 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 15: Finale. Prendi, o padre, il tuo gran nome (Chiara) 02:34
• 42 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 15: O contento! - O nobil core! (Serafina, Don Alvaro, Don Ramiro, Chorus, Chiara, Agnese, Lisetta, Don Meschino, Picaro) 02:03
• 43 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina: Act II Scene 15: Non più perigli (Chiara, Serafina, Agnese, Lisetta, Don Ramiro, Picaro, Chorus, Don Meschino, Don Alvaro) 03:34
• Total Runtime 02:25:52

Info for Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina

Chiara e Serafina was the young Donizetti’s first opera composed for La Scala in 1822. A tardy librettist and an incoherent plot resulted in the premiere being a fiasco but Donizetti’s music is characterful with delightful duets, trios, and ensembles. This 200th anniversary live recording from the 2022 Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo is performed on period instruments and conducted by Sesto Quatrini.

Pietro Spagnoli, baritone
Fan Zhou, soprano
Greta Doveri, soprano
Hyun-Seo Davide Park, tenor
Mara Gaudenzi, mezzo-soprano
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Matteo Failla,piano
Coro dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Orchestra Gli Original
Sesto Quatrini, conductor

Pietro Spagnoli
is since long time appreciated guest of many important theatres around the world, among them the Staatsoper Vienna, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Liceo in Barcelona, the Festival in Aix-en-provence, the Staatsoper Hamburg, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Zuerich, owing his status as internationally renowned performer to his interpretations of leading roles mostly in the repertory of Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti, like ‘Figaro’ in ‘IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA’ (available on DVD), ‘Figaro’ and ‘Conte Almaviva’ in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, the title role of DON GIOVANNI, ‘Don Alfonso’ in COSÌ FAN TUTTE, ‘Dandini’ and ‘Don Magnifico’ in LA CENERENTOLA, ‘Belcore’ and ‘Dulcamara’ in L’ELISIR D’AMORE, ‘Sulpice’ in LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, ‘Malatesta’ in DON PASQUALE, but in the last years also added successfully not only the title role of Verdi’s FALSTAFF, a row of further roles outside his former ‘classic Belcanto repertory’, such as ‘Fra Melitone’/LA FORZA DEL DESTINO in Las Palmas and at the Semperoper Dresden, ‘Sharpless’ /MADAME BUTTERFLY at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, and in 2020, a moving ‘Michonnet’ in Cilea’s ADRIANA LECOUVREUR, again at the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari.

In recent times, he also developed his activity as teacher and coach, establishing fruitful relationships with the ‘Accademia della Scala’ in Milan, the private ‘Sedat Gürel-Güzin Arts & Science’ Foundation in Istanbul and projects with the ‘Fundaciòn Ibañez’ Atkinson in Santiago del Cile. He furthermore held different Masterclasses so far for the ‘Matisse Opera Studio’ in Valencia, the ‘Santa Cecilia’ Conservatory in Rome and the ‘Antonio Vivaldi’ Conservatory in Alessandria.

Among his numerous commitments of the last two decades we recall (Dandini) at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, ‘Don Magnifico’ in Vienna and Hamburg, and ‘Alidoro’ in LA CENERENTOLA at the Semperoper Dresden; L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Dulcamara) at the Met in New York, Staatsoper Vienna and Staatsoper Hamburg; LA FILLE DU REGIMENT (Suplice) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Oper Zurich, and Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège; IL VIAGGIO A REIMS (Don Profondo) at the Liceo Barcelona and Teatro Municipal Santiago del Cile; VIVA LA MAMMA (role debut ‘Procolo) in Zurich; COSI FAN TUTTE (Don Alfonso) at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich as well as in a new production of the Staatsoper Hamburg and at Teatro alla Scala Milan and the Abao in Bilbao; L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI at the Opera Zurich; IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO at La Scala Milan; ‘Rimbaud’ in LE COMTE ORY at the Opera Montecarlo; FALSTAFF at the Staatsoper Hamburg.

He also has debuted all three roles (Prosdocimo, Selim, Don Geronio) in IL TURCO IN ITALIA, between Aix-en-provence, Rossini Opera Festival, Zurich, Toulouse, Dresden, Bilbao, Teatro Real in Madrid, sang both roles (Don Pasquale and Malatesta) in DON PASQUALE, between Theatre La Monnaie in Bruxelles, Staatsoper Vienna. He furthermore debutet ‘Don Bartolo’ in IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA at the Rossini Opera Festival in 2018 where he returned again in summer 2021 for a new production of IL SIGNOR BRUSCHINO, and debuted too at the Donizetti Bergamo Festival with CHIARA E SERAFINO in 2022.

He kicked off 2024 with FALSTAFF a the Royal Opéra Wallonie in Liège followed by a new production of LA RONDINE (Rambaldo) at the Teatro alla Scala Milan and again FALSTAFF, this time at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon, then made his debut at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago in TURANDOT, in both roles ‘Ping’ and ‘Mandarino’ contemporarily in the same performance by will of the stage director Pier Luigi Pizzi.

In season 2024-25 he performs in his first Zarzuela, MARINA’ at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, before debuting ‘GIANNI SCHICCHI’ at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, returning to the Scala Milan for Gassmann’s OPERA SERIA in the role of ‘Fallito’, to the Opera Zurich for the title role in DON PASQUALE, to Las Palmas for ‘Sharpless’ in MADAME BUTTERFLY, and in summer 2025 to the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro for a revival of IL TURCO IN ITALIA, this time as ‘Selim’. He also will hold a Recital and leading a Masterclass in Montréal/Canada.

Sesto Quatrini
(born 1984 in Rome) studied trumpet, conducting and composition, graduating from the “A. Casella” Conservatory, L’Aquila, and the “Claudio Abbado” Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan. He has been assistant conductor to Fabio Luisi at the New York Metropolitan Opera and at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, where in 2017 he made his Italian opera debut with Verdi’s Un giorno di regno.

From 2018 to 2023 he was artistic director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. During his tenure, he conducted I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème, Candide, Madama Butterfly, Anna Bolena, Don Carlo, La Juive, Der Rosenkavalier, Rigoletto, the Verdi Requiem, Goyescas, Aida and Les Contes d'Hoffmann, opera galas and orchestral concerts.

Sesto Quatrini also devotes his attention to the rediscovery of rare or lesser-known works. To date, he has conducted Verdi’s Un giorno di regno, Giulietta e Romeo by Vaccaj (2018, Dynamic DVD), Coscoletto by Offenbach and Ecuba by Manfroce, all at the Festival della Valle d'Itria; Francesca da Rimini by Mercadante (Japan Opera Foundation, Tokyo, 2019) and Donizetti’s Chiara e Serafina (Festival Donizetti Opera 2022, Dynamic DVD).

Along with concerts conducted at the Rossini Opera Festival, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, other highlights among his recent engagements include L’elisir d’amore at the Royal Opera House, London and at the Teatro Regio, Parma; Don Pasquale at the Opernhaus Zürich; Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Regio, Turin; Norma at La Monnaie, Brussels and at the Teatro Regio, Parma, Teatro Pavarotti-Freni, Modena, and Teatro Municipale, Piacenza; Il turco in Italia at Glyndebourne and at the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa; La Traviata at the Royal Danish Opera; Le nozze di Figaro at the ROH Muscat; Anna Bolena at the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa; Rigoletto at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Aida and Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Lithuanian National Opera; Madama Butterfly at La Fenice, and the two versions of Otello (by Rossini and Verdi) at the Oper Frankfurt.

The 2024/2025 season includes engagements at the Staatsoper Hamburg as guest conductor for Carmen, at ABAO Bilbao Opera for the opening of the season with a new production of Don Pasquale, at Oper Köln for a new production of Nabucco, the Opéra National de Lyon for Madama Butterfly, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli for Roméo et Juliette, and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma for L’Italiana in Algeri.

Other engagements include concerts with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, Piacenza, Trento and Bolzano, and the 2025 New Year concert with the Orchestra Farnesiana at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza.

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