Carlo Colombara The Art of The Bass

CARLO COLOMBARA - The Art of the Bass

Georges Bizet: Carmen, Act II: Votre toast, je peux vous le render*
Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo, Act III: Ella giammai m’amo**
Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra, Prologue: Il lacerato spirito*
Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco, Act II: Tu sul labrro de’ veggenti fulminasti, o sommo Iddio
Giuseppe Verdi: Attila, Act I: Mentre gonfiarsi l’anima parea
Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act II: La calunnia e un venticello**
Charles Gounod: Faust, Act IV: Vous faites l’endormie
Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele, Act II: Ecco il mondo
Sergei Rachmaninov: Aleko: Aleko’s Cavatina
Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Act IV: Proshchai moy syn*

Carlo Colombara, bass
Sofia National Opera Chorus
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Gyorgy G. Rath, conductor
*Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Ghiaurov, conductor
**Prague Tchaikovsky Orchestra / Fabrizio Milani, conductor

Recorded in Sofia, 28-31 January 2006 (Carmen, Simon Boccanegra, Boris Godunov)
Recorded in Prague, 2006 (Don Carlo, Il barbiere di Siviglia);
Recorded in RSI Radio Svizzera Italiana Studio, Lugano-Besso, April 2003 (Faust, Nabucco, Mefistofele, Attila, Aleko)

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo 2.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English and original languages (French, Italian, Russian)
Running time: 68 mins

Described as “the great Verdian bass” (Le Figaro) and a “Mefistofele who stood out over all the others” (Der Neue Merker), Carlo Colombara brings some of the most famous bass roles to life in this wide-ranging programme. Emotions range from the pride of Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen, through the terrors of Verdi’s Attila, to the tender recollections of Rachmaninov’s Aleko. Mephistopheles strides powerfully through both Gounod and Boito’s operas, and Rossini’s comic wit contrasts with the darkness of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. ( NAXOS )