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Rosario

SKU: 14596

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AU $27.22

Label: ABC Classics Cat. No.: 476 3483 Medium: CD No. Discs: 1

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"The Australian Pavarotti. A voice that melts your heart, a voice of gold; easy, warm and joyous... just makes you glow" - Stuart Maunder (Opera Director).

"[a] beautifully, fluid tenor" - Theatre Australia.

"His voice is bright, powerful, and warmly lyrical, with thrilling, full top notes..." - Crosscut.

"La Spina reaches great heights" - Courier Mail.

"[a] rich tenor voice bursting with youthful ardour" - The Opera Critic.

Widely considered the leading heroic tenor performing in Australia today, Brisbane-born Rosario La Spina is of Sicilian descent. He trained at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, continuing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester under Joseph Ward. During this period, he made guest appearances in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Bern Stadttheater and as a soloist in operatic galas. Having gained first prize in the tenor competition held by L'Accademia di La Scala in 2000, Rosario embarked on the two-year Young Singers' Course at La Scala, Milan, where he studied with Luciana Serra and Leyla Gencer. This culminated in his La Scala debut in Samson and Delilah, where he appeared alongside Placido Domingo and Olga Borodina. In 2002, Rosario won first prize in the Mario Del Monaco International Opera Competition and made his principal role debut at La Scala in Verdi's Oberto, reprising the role in Genova.

2003 saw his debut at the Verdi Festival at the Teatro Regio di Parma in I Lombardi. He also performed Alfredo (La Traviata) in Modena and Luigi (Il Tabarro) in Osaka, Japan and in 2007 he made his US debut as Rodolfo (La boheme) for Seattle Opera.

Blessed with a voice of enormous power and beauty, he made his Opera Australia debut in 2005 as Cavaradossi (Tosca) and has since appeared in La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Rusalka, Turandot and Les Contes d'Hoffmann.

This self-titled album is his debut solo recording under a new exclusive contract with Universal Music Australia (Decca) and ABC Classics. Highlighting six the great heroic roles of the tenor repertoire - Calaf (Turandot), the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), Cannio (Pagliacci), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Radames (Aida) and Oronte (I Lombardi), the CD also weaves in a host of Neapolitan songs, as much the province of the great tenors as the operatic roles they sang. Many of the arrangements for these songs are by the conductor on this recording, Richard Mills.

One of Australia's most sought after musicians, Richard Mills has pursued a diverse career as composer, conductor and artistic director, which has seen him work with almost all of the nation's music organisations. He has held the post of Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera since 1997 and was Musica Viva's Composer of the Year in 2008. His operas have been produced by both opera companies and festivals across Australia and have also received some of Australia's most prestigious awards. He has recorded extensively for ABC Classics and his unrivalled ear for sonority also marks him out as one of the country's finest orchestrators.

Artists:

Rosario La Spina (tenor).

Composers:

Adolphe Adam, Eduardo Di Capua, Salvatore Cardillo, Ernesto de Curtis, Vincenzo d'Annibala, Agustin Lars, Franz Lehar, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Gaetano Errico Pennino, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi.

Conductors:

Richard Mills.

Orchestras:

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.

Tracks:

1	La mia letizia infondere from I Lombardi alla prima croclata Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
2	Torna a Surriento Music by Ernesto de Curtis (1875-1937)
3	Pecche? Music by Gaetano Errico Pennino (1859-1918)
4	Granada Music by Agustin Lara (1897-1970)
5	Se quel guerrier to fossi!...Celeste Aida from Aida Music by Giuseppe Verdi
6	Addio, fiorito asil from Madama ButterflyMusic by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
7	Tu, ca nun chiagne! Music by Ernesto de Curtis, arranged by Richard Mills
8	Nessun dorma from Turandot Music by Giacomo Puccini
9	Recitar! mentre preso dal delirio...Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci Music by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
10	O paese d' 'o sole Music by Vincenzo d'Annibale (1894-1950), arranged by Richard Mills
11	Core 'ngrato Music by Salvatore Cardillo (1874-1947), arranged by Richard Mills
12	Ah si, ben mio from Il trovatore Music by Giuseppe Verdi.
13	Questa o quella from Rigoletto Music by Giuseppe Verdi
14	Maria Mari Music by Eduardo Di Capua (1865-1917), arranged by Richard Mills
15	O Holy Night Music by Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
16	You Are My Heart's Delight from The Land of Smiles Music by Franz Lehar (1870-1942)
Rosario La Spina tenor Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (Lisa Kerob leader) Richard Mills conductor