April Recording of the Month: Il pirata

It’s nearly the end of the month which means that the next in our series of complete operas on YouTube is now available!

Our April Recording of the Month is Bellini’s Il pirata – the composer’s third opera, written when he was only 27 and his first for the brand leader of Italian opera houses: Teatro alla Scala in Milan. It also represented Bellini’s first collaboration with Felice Romani, the leading librettist of the day, who was to become his regular artistic partner.

French magazine Classica said of our revival with London Philharmonic Orchestra and David Parry: This release by Opera Rara must be praised triple-fold: for the luxurious product which is the trademark of this label; for its audacity, especially in our current times, to capture in the studio an opera so far with a poor discographic history; and above all, for producing a recording of such leading quality.

With Carmen Giannattasio as Imogene, Ludovic Tézier as Ernesto and José Bros as Gualtiero… discover it today.