TRACKLISTING

CD 1
Atto I

CD 2
Atto I (conclusion)
Atto II

RECORDING INFORMATION

Addition to highly successful Duo series (now more than 200 titles available). La donna del lago is based on Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake, which Rossini knew from a French translation. Written as one of Rossini’s operas for Naples, it was first heard at the Teatro San Carlo on 24 September 1819. The opera makes great demands on the principal singers and each has to have a solid coloratura technique. Such enormous demands on the performers no doubt go a long way in explaining why this work, which was important for introducing European Romanticism into Italy, is not performed more frequently. The present recording is taken from performances given at La Scala in June 1992 under the direction of Riccardo Muti and a first-rate cast of singers.