Word: capecchi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Gianna d'Angelo, Renato Capecchi, Carlo Cava, Nicola Monti, Giorgio Tadeo; the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). As an effervescent Rosina, Soprano d'Angelo confirms the promise of her recent Metropolitan opera debut, but the honors here belong to Baritone Capecchi, whose Figaro is vibrant-voiced, flamboyant and believable...
Paisiello: The Barber of Seville (Grazielli Sciutti, Nicola Monti, Rolando Panerai, Renato Capecchi; Virtuosi di Roma, conducted by Renato Fasano; Mercury, 2 LPs). "He has received the homage of his age and has assured to himself that of posterity." Thus Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) paid tribute to himself in a contemporary dictionary. Unfortunately for his prediction, a rival named Rossini later wrote his own Barber of Seville and drove the older work from the stage. In this recording, Paisiello's Barber emerges as a smaller-scaled work than Rossini's but with a gay, quicksilvery score, some limpidly...