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Opera on 3: Rossini's La gazza ladra

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03/10/2015

Rossini's La gazza ladra

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Donato Renzetti conducts Rossini's La gazza ladra at the 2015 Pesaro Festival.

Donator Renzetti conducts a performance of Rossini's popular melodrama La gazza ladra at the 2015 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Starring Nino Machaidze and Alex Esposito.

Rossini's melodramma La Gazza Ladra - the Thieving Magpie - from this year's Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro conducted by Donato Renzetti and starring Nino Machaidze and Alex Esposito

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Cast: 
Fabrizio Vingradito..... Simone Alberghini (bass-baritone)
Lucia..... Teresa Iervolino (mezzo-soprano)
Giannetto..... René Barbera (tenor)
Ninetta..... Nino Machaidze (soprano)
Fernando Villabella..... Alex Esposito (bass-baritone)
Gottardo..... Marko Mimica (bass-baritone)
Pippo..... Lena Belkina (mezzo-soprano)
Isacco..... Matteo Macchioni (tenor)
Antonio..... Alessandro Luciano (tenor)
Giorgio..... Riccardo Fioratti (baritone)
Ernesto / Il Pretore..... Claudio Levantino (bass-baritone)
Una Gazza..... Sandhya Nagaraja (actress)

The Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Communale di Bologna
Donato Renzetti (conductor)

Opera on 3 continues with recordings from this year's summer festivals with Rossini's popular melodramma La Gazza Ladra - the Thieving Magpie - from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro conducted by Donato Renzetti. The performance stars soprano Nino Machaidze as the servant girl Ninetta, tenor René Barbera as her love Giannetto and bass-baritone Alex Esposito as Ninetta's father. The melodramma in two acts is based on the comedy La pie voleuse: Ninetta is condemned to death for stealing silver from her employers, the Vingradito family, but the opera conforms to to the traditional happy ending when the silver is discovered in the eponymous magpie's nest. La Gazza Ladra is perhaps most well-known for its overture, but the opera has some of Rossini's finest arias in this semiseria genre. Presented by Andrew McGregor in conversation with Francesco Izzo.

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