Latest News: Classical, Albina Shagimuratova (Soprano)
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Recording of the Week,
Donizetti's Il Paria from Opera Rara 15th January 2021
Sir Mark Elder conducts a scintillating account of Donizetti's 1829 opera about religious persecution in sixteenth-century India, starring Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, and Misha Kiria.
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Interview,
Albina Shagimuratova and Daniela Barcellona on Semiramide 26th September 2018
Katherine talks to the Russian soprano and Italian mezzo who star as mother and estranged son on Sir Mark Elder's new, uncut recording of Rossini's great opera seria.
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Recording of the Week,
Rossini's Semiramide from Mark Elder 7th September 2018
Rossini's final Italian opera seria receives a taut, compelling reading on period instruments in an interpretation which plays up its baroque pedigree to great effect.
