Verismo (CD) – Krassimira Stoyanova

Composers: Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, Francesco Cilea, Umberto Giordano, Alfredo Catalani
Artists: Krassimira Stoyanova, Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor: Pavel Baleff
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Orfeo
CD Release Date: February 17, 2017

Bulgarian soprano Krassimira Stoyanova turns her attention to verismo, in the broadest sense of the word. Again and again, she lends those roles by Puccini, Mascagni, Cilea, Giordano, and Catalani her inimitably nuanced and finely resonant lirico spinto soprano, a voice which is both flexible and capable of the highest notes while possessing an enchanting sonority and profound middle range.

Be it Puccini’s foolhardy, gem-addicted Manon, such tender characters as Liu, Cio-Cio-san, or the nun Sister Angelica, Stoyanova always finds the right tone and finely-nuanced expression for each. As with her two previous albums for the Orfeo label, she is accompanied by the Munich Radio Orchestra under Pavel Baleff with great sensitivity and intensity, thereby giving each of these classic opera scenes their own musical world.

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