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After her debut album "Palpiti d'amour", followed by "Slavic Opera Arias" and a Verdi album, the Bulgarian soprano, Krassimira Stoyanova now turns her attention to "Verisimo" - the the broadest sense of the word. Again and again she lends those roles by Puccini, Mascagni, Cilea, Giordano, and Catalani her inimitably nuanced and finely resonant lirico spinto soprano, a voice which is both flexible and capable of the highest notes while possessing an enchanting sonority and profound middle range. Be it Puccini's foolhardy, gem-addicted Manon, who will ultimately die of thirst in the desert - featured here with her great arias from Acts 2 and 4 - or such tender characters as Liu, Madame Butterfly - singing the hope-filled aria "Un bel di vedremo" and "Che tua madre" immediately before her suicide - or the nun Sister Angelica, whose unconditional love must ultimately lead to her death: Stoyanova always finds the right tone and finely-nuanced expression for each of these female characters - culminating right at the end in "Vissi d'arte" by Tosca - a final surge of life-affirming passion and simultaneously a resigned farewell to life by a great singer. This selection of great arias is preceded seamlessly by the great and poignant death-scene aria sung by the protagonist of Pietro Mascagni's opera "Lodoletta", in which a spurned woman imagines her unattainable lover as she lies delirious in the snow - maddened by hunger and cold - before she slips into the hereafter. As with her two previous albums for the Orfeo label, she is accompanied by the Munich Radio Orchestra under Pavel Baleff with great sensitivity and intensity, thereby giving each of these classic opera scenes their own musical world.
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Reviews
ICMA Vocal Recital Award Nominee
2018 International Classical Music Awards
"... Maestro Pavel Baleff is an expert accompanist, making the Munich Radio Orchestra as pliable and subtly nuanced as a string quartet. Munich Radio has one of the finest orchestras, and even the solo passages ... are played with virtuosity and exquisite taste. The expansive acoustic of the hall is ideally captured ... The hall itself is ideal. Congratulations to all concerned in producing this noteworthy musical document."
Raymond Beegle - Fanfare - September/October 2017
“...The entire album is performed with blazing conviction and close attention to the text and dramatic situation. These are arias of determination, desperation, and desolation; and Stoyanova helps me believe in each heroine’s specific crisis. Her beautiful pianissimo nigh notes, which reviews of her earlier recordings greatly appreciate, ind apt applications in many of these excerpts as well...”
Ralph Locke – American Record Guide – July/August 2017
"... Stoyanova is a very impressive singer, and this is another commanding (and well-recorded) recital to add to the clutch already available on this label."
Hugo Shirley - Gramophone magazine – May 2017
***** (Exceptional album)
Gabriele Cesaretti - Musica magazine (Italy) - April 2017
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