Despite the clarity and attractiveness of much of the music the Spanish zarzuela has been tough to get a grip on for many listeners, at least outside Spain and Latin America. This disc by Spanish-born soprano Maria Bayo, originally recorded in 2003, remains a good place to start. Bayo and sensational French early music conductor Christophe Rousset perform not just individual arias but small chunks of linked music, which is the right way to introduce unfamiliar operatic repertory. The booklet, though it addresses the actual ...
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Despite the clarity and attractiveness of much of the music the Spanish zarzuela has been tough to get a grip on for many listeners, at least outside Spain and Latin America. This disc by Spanish-born soprano Maria Bayo, originally recorded in 2003, remains a good place to start. Bayo and sensational French early music conductor Christophe Rousset perform not just individual arias but small chunks of linked music, which is the right way to introduce unfamiliar operatic repertory. The booklet, though it addresses the actual music on the album only in an annoyingly oblique way, goes into a good deal of detail about the interplay between Italian and native Spanish influences on the zarzuela in the eighteenth century, as well as about the currents of serious and comic material in the music, which are different from those in the Italian tradition. The main attraction here is the voice of Bayo herself. The music, though designated as barrocco, is really closer to Classical; the long, smooth melodic lines of...
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