Donizetti: Il borgomastro di Saardam Orchestra and Coro Donizetti Opera & Roberto Rizzi Brignoli

• Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848): Il borgomastro di Saardam, Act I:
• 1 Sinfonia 06:32
• 2 Forza o braccio 03:43
• 3 Del sembiante caro e vago 04:36
• 4 Amici, il borgomastro 00:17
• 5 Non partir, qui venir 02:56
• 6 Sire, se non finiam 01:04
• 7 Lungi da te mio ben 02:42
• 8 In seno al contento 03:02
• 9 Bella Marietta a voi siam debitori 01:05
• 10 Fate largo al borgomastro 05:16
• 11 Eh, la cosa in sé stessa 02:22
• 12 Come ha fisso in me lo sguardo 02:47
• 13 Dimmi un poco dove sei nato? 04:56
• 14 Il lido io già credeva di toccare 01:48
• 15 Si versi il liquor 01:52
• 16 I tuoi precetti 01:52
• 17 Dei saper ch'io vado in traccia 04:27
• 18 Mani addosso a un borgomastro 04:49
• 19 È per voi signor tal foglio 04:14
• Act II:
• 20 Lo czar dunque? 03:15
• 21 Allor che tutto tace 04:45
• 22 Da te lontana 02:48
• 23 Prodi campioni 01:14
• 24 Vili! Qual folle ardir 00:31
• 25 Va, e la nave in un baleno 00:31
• 26 Non più di barbara 03:42
• 27 La promessa di Flimann 01:56
• 28 Senza tanti complimenti 04:02
• 29 Insolentissima, lingua di vipera 03:36
• 30 Mi disse or or Carlotta 02:14
• 31 Brilli pure in sì bel giorno 03:18
• 32 La pura calma 04:32
• Total Runtime 01:36:44

Info for Donizetti: Il borgomastro di Saardam

Having fallen into oblivion following performances in 1839, this attractive, rare opera buffa was revived in 1973 in the Dutch city of Zaanstad (the Saardam of the libretto). It's staged on this recording at Bergamo's Teatro Sociale as part of the Donizetti Festival in a new critical edition made for the Donizetti Foundation by Alberto Sonzogni. The plot opens with Tsar Peter the Great working incognito as a carpenter in Sardaam's shipyard to acquire technical knowledge which he will then take back home. The mayor is convinced of this secretive arrangement, which leads to endless misunderstandings. Conductor Roberto Rizzi Brignoli leads the orchestra of the Donizetti Opera; stage action is in the hands of internationally-renowned cinema director Davide Ferrario. Headed by the renowned bass Andrea Concetti, the cast comprises emerging stars in the belcanto repertoire, including Giorgio Caoduro, Juan Francisco Gatell, Irina Dubrovskaya and Aya Wakizono.

Giorgio Caoduro, soprano (Tsar)
Juan Francisco Gatell, tenor (Pietro Flimann)
Irina Dubrovskaya, soprano (Marietta)
Andrea Concetti, bass (Wambett)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, conductor

Roberto Rizzi Brignoli
graduated in Piano, with the highest scores, at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milano, where he also completed studies in Composition and Orchestra Conductor.

He remembers with the greatest fondness and gratitude the improvement course - after the Piano studies – held by Maestro Aldo Ciccolini, to whom he owes his immense love for music, transmitted by his masterly and moving performances and the opening of new musical horizons.

After this experience, the great passion for the theatre and for the opera has brought him to dedicate his life to the collaboration with opera singers, working as assistant in numerous theatres of tradition and in this way accumulating an important knowledge of the lyric repertoire.

It was Maestro Gavazzeni, with whom he had a long relationship as pianist, who brought him later on to the Teatro alla Scala, theatre with which he had a long-lasting relationship, up to becoming Head of Musical Services from 1999 to 2002 in the artistic direction of the theatre.

This experience turned out to be fundamental for his artistic growth, especially in meeting with Maestro Muti, of whom he became assistant in many opera and symphonic productions and whose esteem brought him to conduct numerous productions at La Scala, above all Verdi’s music ( M° Muti has written of him:…magnificent musician and indispensable assistant…”).

To these great maestros he owes all of his artistic maturity, to them as splendid artists and masters of life his own schooling goes back to, intended above all as a constant and in-depth research of a particular quality of sound, through a long and meticulous work with the singers and with the orchestra. Both in the opera as well as the symphonic repertoire, it is this work that is particularly appreciated by uncountable expressions of esteem from orchestras and from opera singers that have worked with him up to now. ...

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