In 2011 Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko showed herself an impressively versatile artist on her début CD, “La bellezza del canto.” On her second album, “Arabesque”, where she is accompanied by the NDR Sinfonieorchester (NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra) under the baton of Enrique Mazzola, she again casts her net wide, from sophisticated bel canto to light music. In addition to arias by Verdi, Bellini and Strauss, Ms Peretyatko, has recorded pieces by the French composers, Gounod and Bizet. Also, for the first time on disc we hear her singing Mozart, one of her favourite composers.
Her recital includes Mozart’s concert aria K. 538, “Ah se in ciel, benigne stele,” as well as Donna Anna’s dramatic coloratura aria “Crudele…non mi dir” fromDon Giovanni, and Susanna’s idyllic “Rose aria” from The Marriage of Figaro.
Ms Peretyatko’s talent for empathy, embodied in lyrical beauty or in perfectly performed high notes, can also be admired on the new CD in lesser-known pieces. For example, she sings an aria from Bizet’s symphonic cantata Vasco da Gama about the famous seafarer and explorer. And as on her first CD, Ms Peretyatko shines with a Rossini rarity: the aria of the goddess Cerere from the composer’s 1816 wedding cantata Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo. She already sang this work at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro in 2010.
On her new album, Ms Peretyatko also performs a bolero from Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani, while she can be heard in the role of Elvira in two arias from Bellini’s last opera I Puritani, in which she will make her début at the New York City Metropolitan Opera in April 2014. Last but not least, Ms Peretyatko brings her recital to a close with evidence of her fine feeling for salon music and comic opera. As the chambermaid Adele in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus she plays the innocent lass from the country. Then comes a villanella where she turns into a swallow, while in the famous romance Solovyey moy by the Russian composer Alexander Alyabyev we hear her skilfully imitating the song of a nightingale.
On her new album, Ms Peretyatko also performs a bolero from Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani, while she can be heard in the role of Elvira in two arias from Bellini’s last opera I Puritani, in which she will make her début at the New York City Metropolitan Opera in April 2014. Last but not least, Ms Peretyatko brings her recital to a close with evidence of her fine feeling for salon music and comic opera. As the chambermaid Adele in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus she plays the innocent lass from the country. Then comes a villanella where she turns into a swallow, while in the famous romance Solovyey moy by the Russian composer Alexander Alyabyev we hear her skilfully imitating the song of a nightingale.
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