The zarzuela is a centuries-old Spanish vocal genre, originally homegrown at a Palacio de la Zarzuela near Madrid and often classed with the singspiel, operetta, and other national styles of semi-popular, usually comic vocal music. But it had a deeper national identity than any of these, and it absorbed influences from Italian opera in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Plenty of zarzuela numbers are on the scale of opera arias, with dimensions spacious enough to let top-notch singers show what they can do. Various ...
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The zarzuela is a centuries-old Spanish vocal genre, originally homegrown at a Palacio de la Zarzuela near Madrid and often classed with the singspiel, operetta, and other national styles of semi-popular, usually comic vocal music. But it had a deeper national identity than any of these, and it absorbed influences from Italian opera in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Plenty of zarzuela numbers are on the scale of opera arias, with dimensions spacious enough to let top-notch singers show what they can do. Various opera stars of Spanish background have recorded zarzuela albums in recent years, and now the Brilliant label, a Dutch issuer of budget-priced sets that are sold in Europe in drugstores and the like, enters the field with Zarzuela!, a reissue drawing on several zarzuela albums issued in the 1970s by Spain's Ensayo label. The stars of the show are José Carreras and Teresa Berganza, and they're both tremendous. Carreras never sounded better than at this point in his career, and anyone...
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