The prestigious Rundfunkchor Berlin together with the Berliner Philharmoniker perform Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims conducted by Claudio Abbado. Recorded in 1993, it presents one of G. Rossini’s most emblematic works composed for the coronation of King Charles X of France in 1825. Musicologist Janet Johnson recovered the work which was revived at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro under the baton of the same musical director who conducts this marvellous recording and with a scene by Luca Ronconi.
Il mio crudel rigore dubbioso e incerto il rende; di speme e di timore palpita in seno il cor! Già cessa il mio rigore, per lui mi parla amor. (Melibea)
Il Viaggio A Reims (2CD)
Corinna | Sylvia McNair
Marchesa Melibea | Lucia Valentini Terrani
Contessa di Folleville | Luciana Serra
Madama Cortese | Cheryl Studer
Cavalier Belfiore | Raul Gimenez
Conte di Libenskof | William Matteuzzi
Lord Sidney | Samuel Ramey
Don Profondo | Ruggero Raimondi
Barone di Trombonok | Enzo Dara
Don Alvaro | Lucio Gallo
Don Prudenzio | Giorgio Surian
Don Luigino | Guglielmo Mattei
Maddalena | Nicoletta Curiel
Delia / Modestina | Barbara Frittoli
Antonio | Claudio Otelli
Zefirino / Gelsomino | Bojidar Nikolov
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado | conductor
Recorded: 13-19 October 1992, Philharmonie, Berlin
Company: Sony