NEW ON NAXOS | NOVEMBER 2025
Gioachino ROSSINI (1792–1868) Adina Farsa in one act (1818)
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Libretto by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini (1791–1845) Sara Blanch, Soprano • César Arrieta, Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, Tenors
Emmanuel Franco, Baritone • Shi Zong, Bass Kraków Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra Luciano Acocella
Rossini’s Adina is a one-act farsa sentimentale or semiseria set in a seraglio in Baghdad where we find the Caliph determined to marry Adina who is also loved by Selimo. To this standard story Rossini brought an unexpected psychological depth, augmented by coloratura arias and male choruses of richness and daring. However, for unknown reasons he omitted a vital Terzetto, which has made the work problematic to fully realise in performance. This recording employs the Terzetto from Giovanni Pacini’s opera La schiava in Bagdad , a solution first proposed in 1861, much to the benefit of the opera’s pacing. Key features: • In 2015 Sara Blanch made her debut at Rossini in Wildbad as Elvira in L’Italiana in Algeri and as Aurelia in Lindpaintner’s Il vespro siciliano and won the Audience Prize of the Bel Canto Academy. Bachtrack wrote, ‘Sara Blanch sang Marie with a brilliant, silvery soprano, capable of extremely easy, unfaltering high and super-high notes, full of harmonics. Her interpretation was funny, sweet, and engaging’. • Venezuelan Tenor César Arrieta has been a guest artist at Rossini in Wildbad (2015–16). He has appeared in Sigismondo (8.660403-04), Demetrio e Polibio (8.660405-06) and Lindpaintner’s Il vespro siciliano (8.660440-43). Bass Shi Zong ’s awards include First Prize at the Deiva Marina International Vocal Competition and the Special Prize at the Premio Boni International Vocal Competition. • Luciano Acocella directs Rossini’s Adelaide di Borgogna on 8.660401-02: ‘The live recording is fully acceptable, choral and orchestral forces excellent’, wrote MusicWeb International . Click to listen to No. 1: Introduzione Splende sereno e fulgido LISTEN
8.660606 Release date: 12 Dec 2025
Companion titles – Gioachino Rossini, Composer
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Michael DELLAIRA (b. 1949) Arctic Explorations
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Folk opera in one act (2023) Libretto by Michael Dellaira Erin Brittain, Nicole Haslett, Sopranos • Michael Celentano, Tenor Colin Levin, Baritone • Nuka Alice, Vocal soloist New Amsterdam Singers The Harlem Chamber Players Clara Longstreth
Michael Dellaira has become one of America’s leading opera composers, receiving acclaim and awards for compelling stage works including The Leopard (Naxos 8.669052-53). Based on Elisha Kent Kane’s expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century, Arctic Explorations is a study on the human desire to discover what lies beyond the boundaries of our experience. The effects of global warming and the plight of the Inuit in one of the most beautiful but endangered places on earth also forms part of the narrative. Key features: • Naxos American Opera Classics has previously released Michael Dellaira ’s The Leopard (8.669052-53), an opera admired in the American Record Guide : ‘I encourage anybody interested in the current state of opera to get to know The Leopard ’, and also considered ‘a feather in the cap of the Frost School of Music, and also for Dellaira’ in Fanfare . • The strong cast of soloists for Arctic Explorations includes baritone Colin Levin , who made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2018 and who has an extensive history of collaborating with composers, and soprano Nicole Haslett , who has been hailed by The New York Times for both her ‘technically accomplished coloratura’ and her ‘floating lyricism’. Click to listen to Scene 4 “Love Letters – Interlude 1”: My dearest Maggie LISTEN
8.669054 Release date: 28 Nov 2025
Companion titles – Other American opera classics
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