The Blu-Ray was recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera during one of the fabled theatres greatest nights in 2009 — Elina Garanea builds on the success of 2009 album, Bel Canto, incarnating the bel canto title role heroine,... more » Cinderella, in Rossinis touching and hilarious comic masterpiece, La Cenerentola
Garanea is something special. The voice pure, warm, ample in power and range, she has achieved a mastery of Rossinis florid style, using no quick fixes (aspirates or separation devices) but singing the runs legato and with clarity. (John Steane, Gramophone)
. . . what singing! Wonderful smoky tone, properly mezzo, and dazzling decoration in her closing aria Nacqui all affanno. (BBC Music Magazine)
Maurizio Benini waves a magic wand of a baton, eliciting effervescent, transparent, shining sound from The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Piquant visuals and superb acting by the entire cast make this a video opera lovers will watch again and again
The Philadelphia Inquirer lauded: Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanea was a sensation at the Metropolitan Operas spring simulcast of La Cenerentola with her vocal virtuosity, intensely blond glamour, and acting ability . . .
Extras: The opera is introduced by baritone Thomas Hampson, who also interviews Elina Garanea deftly and with charm. More interviews with Simone Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, Lawrence Brownlee and John Relyea« less