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Great Comedy Overtures (Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Friedel) [8.573418] - Raising a Smile

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Channel: Naxos Music · 2015 · Music

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The flourishing genre of the comic opera had its roots in eighteenth-century Italian opera buffa, whose irrepressible brio was soon taken up outside the country’s borders. In France it produced opéra comique and operetta, and in German-speaking countries Spieloper and Viennese operetta. Some of the world’s most popular comic opera overtures, filled with gorgeous tunes, brilliant orchestration and race-to-the-finish endings, are presented here. They include staples of the concert repertoire such as Hérold’s dramatic Zampa, the textual delicacy of Wolf-Ferrari’s 'Il segreto di Susanna' and the vivid colour of Lortzing’s 'Zar und Zimmermann.'

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Lance Friedel, conductor

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