Rossini : Figaro ? Sì !

Description

French baritone Florian Sempey has established himself as an essential singer in the lyrical scene. For his first recital, the choice of Rossini was quite obvious, first because he has already performed in the title role of The Barber of Seville on the greatest opera stages from Paris to London, including Orange and Pesaro, of course, and also because "Rossini is the first composer’s name I ever heard in my life. At my grandparents' house, there was a bust above the piano, on a somewhat rococo little stand"… the bust that appears on the cover of this album. "Rossini's music is a challenge for singers and also a great school of singing, a strict school. It demands extreme rigor and precision." This program features arias in French and Italian, mixing the most famous ones (Figaro…) with rarities like Germano's aria in La scala di seta or Don Parmenione's in L’occasione fa il ladro, and it also includes beautiful duets with dream partners Karine Deshayes and Nahuel Di Pierro. To conduct the Orchestre de l’Opéra national Bordeaux Aquitaine, who better than an accomplished Rossinian like Marc Minkowski, who makes this music shine brilliantly.