Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro (2 CD)

Gaetano Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro (1844)

Carmen Giannattasio - Caterina Cornaro
Colin Lee - Gerardo, en ung franskmand
Troy Cook - Lusignano, konge af Cypern
Graeme Broadbent - Andrea Cornaro, Caterinas fader
Vuyani Mlinde - Mocenigo, rådgiver for rådet i Venedig og ambassadør på Cypern
Loïc Félix - Strozzi, lejemordernes anfører
Sophie Bevan - Matilde, Caterinas fortrolige

BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
David Parry - dirigent

Gramophone, September 2013
Giannattasio shows once again how admirably suited she is to the bel canto repertoire. Her opening Romanza encapsulates her virtues: a good legato line wih no Sutherland droopiness, followed by an equally expressive cabaletta...I have heard Colin Lee described as »the poor«