Rossini - Semiramide / Sutherland · Sinclair · Bonynge

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Joan Sutherland is at her best in this, one of Rossini's last and most serious operas. There is plenty of very complicated music to perform for all the singers, and most of them are up to the task. Of course, Sutherland also recorded the role commercially with the brilliant Marilyn Horne, but that's currently out of print other than in excerpts. At a bargain price, this set is recommended. --Robert Levine

Rossini - Semiramide / Sutherland · Sinclair · Bonynge, Music, Gioachino Rossini, Joan Sutherland, Monica Sinclair, Richard Bonynge, Ferruccio Mazzoli, Mario Petri, Angela Rocco, Ottavio Garaventa, Gino Sinimberghi, Classical, Classical Music, Italian Romantic Opera, Opera, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Opera/Operetta
Rossini - Semiramide / Sutherland · Sinclair · Bonynge
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Enjoyable performance, acceptable sound
  • Fine Performance; Poor Sound
  • Semiramide John Sutherland and Monica Sinclair
  • This is next best to the Sutherland Horne Semiramide
  • Sutherland super here,better than the one with horne, but...
 Rossini - Semiramide / Sutherland · Sinclair · Bonynge
Gioachino Rossini , Joan Sutherland , Monica Sinclair , Richard Bonynge , Ferruccio Mazzoli , Mario Petri , Angela Rocco , Ottavio Garaventa , and Gino Sinimberghi
Manufacturer: Opera D'oro
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000UO7
Release Date: 1997-09-16

Tracks:

  1. Semiramide: Sinfonia
  2. Semiramide: Atto primo - si, gran nume...
  3. Semiramide: La, dal gange
  4. Semiramide: A quei detti
  5. Semiramide: Di tanti regni e popoli
  6. Semiramide: Regina, all'ara
  7. Semiramide: Eccomi alfine in babilonia
  8. Semiramide: Io l'attendeva...
  9. Semiramide: Bella imago
  10. Semiramide: serena i vaghi rai...
  11. Semiramide: Bel raggio lusinghier
  12. Semiramide: Mitrane, e che rechia
  13. Semiramide: Al tuo comando...
  14. Semiramide: Alle piu care immagini
  15. Semiramide: Ergi omai la fronte altera

Tracks:

  1. Semiramide: L'alto eroe!
  2. Semiramide: qual mesto gemito
  3. Semiramide: Ah! sconvolta nell'ordine eterno
  4. Semiramide: Atto secondo - Assur, i cenni niei
  5. Semiramide: Quella ricordati
  6. Semiramide: La forza priniera
  7. Semiramide: Ebben compiasi omai
  8. Semiramide: Si, vendetta... sacro assiar
  9. Semiramide: Si, vendicato
  10. Semiramide: No, non ti lascio
  11. Semiramide: Ebbene, a te: ferisci
  12. Semiramide: Giorno d'orrore
  13. Semiramide: La speranza piu soave
  14. Semiramide: Li di gia cade
  15. Semiramide: Si, vi sara vendetta
  16. Semiramide: Qual densa notte!
  17. Semiramide: Finale: vieni arsace

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Joan Sutherland is at her best in this, one of Rossini's last and most serious operas. There is plenty of very complicated music to perform for all the singers, and most of them are up to the task. Of course, Sutherland also recorded the role commercially with the brilliant Marilyn Horne, but that's currently out of print other than in excerpts. At a bargain price, this set is recommended. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Enjoyable performance, acceptable sound.......2006-03-06

This Opera D'Oro release was recorded live in Rome during 1968. Richard Bonynge conducted the Symphony and Chorus of Rome RAI. Joan Sutherland gives an excellent performance as Semiramide at the top of her form with a strong and nimble coloratura with her usual great range. Although Monica Sinclair may not be a Marilyn Horne, she still gives an enjoyable performance as Arsace and the other members of the cast also fill their roles just fine.

The sound, although not of modern studio quality is decent, a bit boxy and lacking depth perhaps but quite acceptable for a live recording from this era with generally faithful sound reproduction and not too much off-mike singing.

There is no libretto provided but the booklet contains a list of the tracks on each CD and identifies who is singing what and this is a help. There is also a short synopsis of the storyline and some information surrounding Rossini's composition of this opera.

All told, this is an enjoyable budget recording of one of Rossini's better works. A solid 4 stars.

2 out of 5 stars Fine Performance; Poor Sound.......2004-01-28

Over the years I've bought or heard a couple dozen Opera D'Oro titles. I can't think of one that I would consider a poor performance. Quite the contrary: Sills, Sutherland, Pavarotti etc are all in their prime singing everything from Purcell to Puccini and at rock bottom prices. Sutherland and her hubby Richard Bonynge team up for a good effort here too. (Quibbling about the relative merits of top rank artists seems a bit pointless to me. Whether Rossini intended his singers to sound like modern divas is another question. Check out Andrea Roost's performance of "Lucia" with the Hanover Band to get an "original instrument" take on Bel Canto opera. It's wonderful to my ears, but very different than today's big productions and canon-like voices.) But, folks, we have to face the fact that regardless of performance quality you give up a lot when listening to the poorly mastered radio recordings that make up Opera D'Oro's fare. (A live performance can be splendid - check out Gardiner's terrific Magic Flute. But it was a professionally recorded performance, not an archived radio tape.) The local library has the Decca Horne/Sutherland performance so I can compare. It's more expensive if purchased, no joke. But you can hear the rich and wonderful notes. Nothing wooden, no coughing, just Rossini. The difference to me is night and day. So you get what you pay for. (Real pity, but O'Oro is nearly the sole source for some works. When is someone coming out with another La gaza ladra?) If money is a factor (sure is here) I'd check out other budget labels. Nice versions of Rossini works like Armida, L'italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, La Donna Del Lago, the Barber and Tancredi are available for around $20 (or less) and offer top notch sound. If your senses are so keen that you can "hear" the performance in your mind, I suppose the D'Oros are terrific. A lot of us have to rely on our ears. Opera is great. It's even greater if you can hear all of the notes.

1 out of 5 stars Semiramide John Sutherland and Monica Sinclair.......2003-08-21

Make no mistake (as I did when I ordered this CD set): this is a review of the OPERA D'ORO live recording of Semiramide in Rome in 1968, it is NOT a review of the just-rereleased Sutherland/Horne/Bonynge version on POLYGRAM.
I quit listening after the first 4 or 5 tracks because it was so poorly recorded and mis-cast. What more can I say?

5 out of 5 stars This is next best to the Sutherland Horne Semiramide.......2003-07-27

The Semiramide that features Sutherland with Horne is now available. It's expensive but worth it. The duets with Horne are better than those in their celebrated Norma.

5 out of 5 stars Sutherland super here,better than the one with horne, but..........2003-07-24

Sutherland sings better here than in the set with Horne. But then, you get Sinclair instead of the great Horne. So it's a compromise. I'll get both if I were you though.
I can't help but be sad at all these terrible remarks from bashers that are uncalled for. Please, I beg you, stop. No one deserve a one star review unless the reviewer wants blood. That is just unfair. I understand the anger, but please take it out by writing positive reviews of your favorite diva rather than taking it out and writing negative reviews of your favorite singer's rival.
Is it one basher, two, three,four bashers, or more? That, I don't know, but they are doing Dame Joan a lot of harm. I wonder if these people know that they're actually causing pain for a lot of Sutherland's fans as well as for the Dame herself, that is just unfair.
Sutherland, Callas and Sills are three of the most respected singers of our time. We should be happy that so many recordings preserved for our enjoyment and for future generations of enjoyments. Let's compromise, hear me out please.
I can see both side. But the Callas and Sills fans bashed Sutherland's roles for over a month before any really bad reviews of one star started to go the Callas domains. I see this by reading the reviews and the dates.
I ask for a compromise at least. I don't think that Callas, Sutherland or Sills ever deserve one star reviews. That's for really terrible singers. If you really want to criticize or demean another singer. Three stars should be enough. To continue this is to hurt others. And that's just not right.

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