FULL TANCREDI Moscow 2005 Erik Kurmangaliev, Larisa Rudakova, Alexey Dolgov
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Tancredi
- Composer: Gioachino Rossini
- Libretto: Gaetano Rossi
- Venue & Opera Company: Great Hall of the Conservatory, Moscow, Russia
- Recorded: October 28, 2005
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Erik Kurmangaliev, Larisa Rudakova, Alexey Dolgov, Vytautas Juozapitis, Alexandra Kovalevich, Daria Zykova
- Conductor: Sergey Kondrashev
- Orchestra: Moscow Symphony Orchestra "Russian Philharmonic"
- Chorus: Moscow Choir "Baroque"
- Chorus Master: Anatoly Grindenko
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Irina Iashina
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Tancredi is a melodramma eroico (opera seria or heroic opera) in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi (who was also to write Semiramide ten years later), based on Voltaire’s play Tancrède (1760). The opera made its first appearance at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 February 1813, less than a month after the premiere of his previous opera Il signor Bruschino. The overture, borrowed from La pietra del paragone, is a popular example of Rossini’s characteristic style and is regularly performed in concert and recorded.
Considered by Stendhal, Rossini’s earliest biographer, to be “high amongst the composer’s masterworks”, and describing it as “a genuine thunderbolt out of a clear, blue sky for the Italian lyric theatre,” his librettist Gaetano Rossi notes that, with it, “Rossini rose to glory” Richard Osborne proclaims it to be “his fully fledged opera seria and it established him, more or less instantly, as Italy’s leading composer of contemporary opera.”
Although the original version had a happy ending (as required by the opera seria tradition), soon after the Venice premiere, Rossini—who was more of a Neo-classicist than a Romantic, notes Servadio — had the poet Luigi Lechi rework the libretto to emulate the original tragic ending by Voltaire. In this new ending, presented at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara on 21 March 1813, Tancredi wins the battle but is mortally wounded, and only then does he learn that Amenaide never betrayed him. Argirio marries the lovers in time for Tancredi to die in his wife’s arms.