Verdi: Attila (2-CD) – Ildebrando d’Arcangelo

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Artists: Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Stefano La Colla, George Petean, Stefan Sbonnik, Gabriel Rollinson, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor: Ivan Repušic
Number of Discs: 2
Label: BR Klassik
CD Release Date: May 1, 2020

Following Giuseppe Verdi’s Luisa Miller, with which Ivan Repušic made his debut as principal conductor of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in September 2017, and I Due Foscari in October 2018, the conductor’s successful cycle of early masterpieces by the famous Italian opera composer now continues with Attila. In the recording of the concert performance from the Prinzregententheater, outstanding performers provide authentic fluidity and vocal splendor.

Like its predecessors Nabucco and I Lombardi, Verdi’s early masterpiece Attila is a choral opera in the best sense, and it gained an enthusiastic reception from the Italian unification movement because its themes reflected the aspirations of the Risorgimento in the restless Italy of that time. Hardly any other opera by Verdi was received in Italy with so much euphoria.

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