Rossini - Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra (Gianfranco Masini, M.Caballé, J.Carreras, V.Masterson) [1992]
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 2cd, 547.43 MB
Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog Number: 432 453-2 | Total time : 2.21’20’’
Caballé is regal, and her final scene is a miracle of soft sweet inwardness.
The Naples years, 1815 to 1822, are at the very centre of Rossini's creative life. It is here that genius—''I had facility and lots of instinct''—was put to school. And firmly so: the serious masterpieces of the Naples years take as their subjects the Bible and Shakespeare, Scott and Racine, Tasso and English historical romance. – Richard Osborne, Gramophone [12/1992]