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SMETANA: Dalibor.(Review)
SMETANA: Dalibor
[] Urbanova, Schellenberger; Popov, Prolat, Alexejev, Basyrov; Chorus and Orchestra of the Lyric Theater of Cagliari, David. Dynamic CDS 295/1-2 (Qualiton, dist.)
If only more of our opera stars felt comfortable singing in Czech, marvelous scores such as Smetana's Dalibor might not be such rarities. These days, however, even the charming The Bartered Bride seems to have disappeared from the standard repertory -- at least outside of its native land. What a pity.
Dalibor (1867) is both nationalistic legend and ill-fated romance; its plot echoes Beethoven's Fidelio, and its music pays a debt to Wagner. Yet the opera is also vintage Smetana, imbued with the same stirring character one finds in the evocative tone poems of Ma Vlast. This live 1999 recording from the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari effectively conveys the opera's dramatic strengths, despite a basic interpretive bluntness that obscures the subtlety of Smetanas musical invention. Both Eva Urbanova (Milada) and Valerij Popov (Dalibor) have the requisite vocal heft for their roles, and they are not afraid to sing softly when ...
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