Professor Alexandra Wilson
Recent articles by Professor Alexandra Wilson
Verdi: Ernani
A te, Puccini (Songs)
Puccini's Tosca: the story behind this dramatic opera
All you need to know about the story behind Puccini's Tosca - a thrilling opera about lust, jealousy and corruption
Puccini: Tosca
Verismo – Preludi e Intermezzi
Vincenzo Bellini: the well-travelled bel canto composer whose life was cut short
Alexandra Wilson explores the short but lavishly successful life of an opera composer feted from Milan to Paris and far beyond
The Great Puccini (Jonathan Tetelman)
Remembering Tebaldi (Melody Moore)
Melody Moore (soprano); Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Lawrence Foster (Pentatone)
Puccini: Il Trittico (Vienna/Welser-Möst)
Asmik Grigorian (soprano) et al; Wiener Staatsopernchor, Vienna Philharmonic/Franz Welser-Möst (Unitel/Salzburg)
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Dresden/Janowski)
Freddie de Tommaso, Saioa Hernández, Lester Lynch, Annika Gerhards, Elisabeth Kulman; Sachsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo/Marek Janowski (Pentatone)
Casta Diva (Matilda Lloyd)
Matilda Lloyd (trumpet) Britten Sinfonia/Rumon Gamba (Chandos)
Puccini: Turandot (Santa Cecilia/Pappano)
Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho, Michele Pertusi, Michael Spyres, Mattia Olivieri, Gregory Bonfatti, Siyabonga Maqungo; Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano (Warner Classics)
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (DVD)
Caterina Sala, Javier Camarena, Florian Sempey, Roberto Frontali; Donizetti Opera; Gli Originali/Riccardo Frizza (Dynamic/DVD)
Leoncavallo, Ruggero
A widely-travelled Italian opera composer, Leoncavallo is best known for one big hit: 1892's Pagliacci, a tale of adultery and murder
Puccini: La bohème (arr. violin and piano)
Mathieu van Bellen (violin), Mathias Halvorsen (piano) (Backlash Music)
Signor Gaetano (Javier Camarena)
Javier Camarena (tenor); Gli Originali/Riccardo Frizza (Pentatone)
French Bel Canto Arias (Lisette Oropesa)
Lisette Oropesa (soprano); Sachsischer State Opera Chorus; Dresden Philharmonic/Corrado Rovaris (Pentatone)
Arias (Jonathan Tetelman)
Jonathan Tetelman (tenor); Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria/Karel Mark Chichon (DG)
Verdi: Falstaff (DVD)
Nicola Alaimo, Simone Piazzola, Matthew Swensen, Ailyn Pérez, Francesca Boncompagni; Chorus and Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/John Eliot Gardiner (Dynamic / DVD)
Donizetti: La fille du régiment (DVD)
Sara Blanch, Adriana Bignagni Lesca, Paolo Bordogna, John Osborn , Cristina Bugatty; Chorus of Accademia Teatro alla Scala; Orchestra Donizetti Opera/Michele Spotti (Dynamic / DVD)
Rossini – Figaro? Si! (Florian Sempey)
Florian Sempey (baritone), Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano); Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine/Marc Minkowski (Alpha Classics)
Verdi: La traviata (Dresden/Oren)
Lisette Oropesa, René Barbera, Lester Lynch; Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden; Dresdner Philharmonie/Daniel Oren (Pentatone)
In Questa Reggia (Oksana Dyka)
Oksana Dyka (soprano); Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra/Constantine Orbelian (Delos)
Boulevard des Italiens (Benjamin Bernheim)
Benjamin Bernheim (tenor); Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna/Frédéric Chaslin (DG)