Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) |
This page lists all recordings of La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) on DVD. Generally, more recent DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Rossini: La gazza ladraSung in Italian. Live Recording from the Cologne Opera in 1987Directed by Michael Hampe and Set Design/Costumes by Mauro Pagano
Carlos Feller, Nucci Condo, David Kuebler, Ileana Cotrubas, Brent Ellis, Alberto Rinaldi & Elena Zilio Chorus of the Cologne Opera & Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, Bruno Bartoletti | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Rossini: La gazza ladraDirector: Damiano MichielettoRecorded at the Rossini Opera Festival: Adriatic Arena, Pesaro, August 2007
Paolo Bordogna (Fabrizio), K. Papatheologou (Lucia), Dmitry korchak (Giannetto), Mariola Cantarero (Ninetta), Alex Esposito (Fernando), Michele Pertusi (Gottardo), Manuela Custer (Pippo), Stefan Cifolelli (Isacco), Cosimo Panozzo (Antonio), Vittorio Prato (Giorgio) & Matteo Ferrara (Ernesto) Orchestra Haydn Di Bolzano e Trento & Prague Chamber Choir, Lü Jia The title La Gazza Ladra is translated as ‘The Thieving Magpie’, which as expected is a story based around the theft of some silverwear which a magpie has absconded for its nest, a crime which a servant girl is wrongly accused of. La Gazza Ladra is an "opera semiseria", a genre from Rossini’s time which was used to define a drama with a happy ending in which the innocent victim, unjustly condemned, should be saved from the scaffold at the eleventh hour and the rascal persecutor punished. | 
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