Gioachino Rossini - Semiramide. CD4 (2018)

SEMIRAMIDE
Tragic melodrama in two acts
Libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Voltaire’s Sémiramis

Semiramide, Queen of Babylon - Albina Shagimuratova (soprano)
Arsace, Commander of the Army - Daniela Barcellona (mezzo)
Assur, an Assyrian Prince - Mirco Palazzi (bass)
Idreno, an Indian King - Barry Banks (tenor)
Oroe, High Priest of the Magi - Gianluca Buratto (bass)
Azema, an Assyrian Princess - Susana Gaspar (soprano)
Mitrane, Captain of the Royal Guards - David Butt Philip (tenor)
L’ombra di Nino, Nino’s Ghost - James Platt (bass)

Opera Rara Chorus
Madeleine Venner, chorus master
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Matthew Truscott, leader
Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Recording Date: August, 2016 & September, 2016
Recording Location: Henry Wood Hall
Audio CD (7 Sept. 2018).