SALIERI The Chimney Sweep
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Composer or Director: Antonio Salieri
Genre:
Opera
Label: Pinchgut Opera
Magazine Review Date: 05/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 91
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: PG005
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(Der) Rauchfangkehrer, '(The) Chimney Sweep' |
Antonio Salieri, Composer
Alexandra Oomens, Lisel, Soprano Amelia Farrugia, Mrs Hawk, Soprano Antonio Salieri, Composer Christopher Saunders, Mr Wolf, Tenor David Hidden, Tomaso, Baritone David Woloszko, Mr Bear, Bass Erin Helyard, Conductor Janet Todd, Miss Hawk, Soprano Orchestra of the Antipodes Stuart Haycock, Volpino, Tenor Sydney Children's Choir |
Author: Richard Wigmore
Pinchgut Opera’s English-language production evidently went down well with Sydney audiences, though it’s a pity that virtually all spoken dialogue has been excised in this recording, at the expense of dramatic continuity. While there are no star voices on show, the mainly youthful singers form a lively ensemble. As the servant pair, Alexandra Oomens and Stuart Haycock make up in quick-wittedness and comic resource what they lack in vocal finish. Despite moments of shrillness, Amelia Farrugia and, especially, Janet Todd negotiate their high-wire bravura arias with panache, while bass-baritone David Woloszko nicely catches the pompous bluster of Bear, a role written for Mozart’s first Osmin, Ludwig Fischer. Erin Helyard gets spirited playing from the period band, with nicely turned flute and oboe solos in Volpino’s ‘birdsong’ aria. If a touch more vocal glamour would have ‘sold’ Salieri’s pleasant, slender music even more persuasively, these discs offer 90 minutes of undemanding enjoyment to anyone who likes to explore the 18th-century operatic hinterland.
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