Giuseppe Verdi: I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Ivan Repušić

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): I Lombardi alla prima crociata:
• 1 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Preludio ed Introduzione 02:08
• 2 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: O nobile esempio! 03:42
• 3 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Qui nel luogo santo e pio 00:55
• 4 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: T assale un tremito! 03:16
• 5 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Or s ascolti il voler cittadino! 03:02
• 6 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: A te nell ora infausta 02:36
• 7 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Vergini! 01:18
• 8 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Sciagurata! - Di perigli e piena l opra! 04:00
• 9 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: O speranza di vendetta 02:15
• 10 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Tutta tremante ancor l anima io sento 02:23
• 11 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Salve Maria! 03:32
• 12 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Vieni! - Ma gli sgherri - Io l ascolto 01:55
• 13 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Mostro d averno orribile 03:00
• 14 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Parricida! 02:28
• 15 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: E dunque vero? 02:21
• 16 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: O madre mia, che fa colei? 01:09
• 17 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: La mia letizia infondere 02:28
• 18 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Come poteva un angelo 03:44
• 19 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: E ancor silenzio! - Oh ferma! - Al tuo guerrier 07:39
• 20 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Sei tu l uom delia caverna? 01:54
• 21 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Stolto Allha! 01:45
• 22 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: La bella straniera che l alme innamora! 02:47
• 23 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: O madre, dal cielo 04:15
• 24 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Chi ne salva dal barbaro - Mio padre! 01:12
• 25 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: No! Giusta causa 04:08
• 26 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Gerusalem! 05:55
• 27 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Dove sola m inoltro? - Giselda! 05:02
• 28 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Oh belle, a questa misera 04:40
• 29 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Che vid io mai? - Qual nuova? 03:17
• 30 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Preludio 04:08
• 31 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Qui posa il fianco! - Chi accusa Iddio? 04:19
• 32 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Qual volutta trascorrere 03:42
• 33 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Componi, o cara vergine 05:40
• 34 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Qual prodigio! 03:12
• 35 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: O Signore, dal tetto natio 03:52
• 36 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Al Siloe! - Il cielo 04:07
• 37 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Questa e mia tenda 02:32
• 38 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Un breve istante 01:52
• 39 Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Te lodiamo, gran Dio di vittoria 02:52
• Total Runtime 02:05:02

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Ivan Repusic continues his successful cycle of early masterpieces by the Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi and once again conducts the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in Verdi's "I Lombardi alla prima crociata" (The Lombards on the First Crusade). The opera had its world premiere on 11 February 1843 at Milan's Teatro alla Scala. It was another great success for the young composer and was soon put back on the Scala schedule. The opera spread rapidly throughout Europe and was first given in New York in 1847. Today it is rarely heard or seen.

The concert performance (in the original Italian) at Munich's Prinzregententheater brought unanimous cheers from the audience. Ivan Repušić's commitment to the early Verdi operas deserves high regard. These "I Lombardi" are also a true theatre Verdi: vital and powerful, fiery and highly lively.

Nino Machaidze, soprano (Giselda)
Reka Kristof, soprano (Viclinda)
Piero Pretti, tenor (Oronte)
Galeano Salas, tenor (Arvino)
Miklos Sebestyen, bass-baritone (Pirro)
Michele Pertusi, bass (Pagano)
Ruth Volpert, mezzo-soprano (Sofia)
Nikolaus Pfannkuch, tenor (Prior of Milan)
Andreas Burkhart, baritone (Acciano)
Bavarian Radio Choir
Munich Radio Orchestra
Ivan Repusic, conductor

Ivan Repušić
(1978), chief conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra, the first permanent guest conductor of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, one of the most important and successful Croatian conductors of younger generation.

He started his professional career in German cultural institutions as the first Kapellmeister of the Lower Saxony State Opera in Hannover (2010–2013). He had his début performance in Deutsche Oper in Berlin with Puccini’s La bohème (2011). Thereafter, he was named Kapellmeister of the renowned opera house (from the 2012/2013 season); since 2014, he has held the new role of the first permanent guest conductor. To date, he has led numerous successful opera performances, including Macbeth, Tosca, Turandot, La bohème, Eugene Onegin, Nabucco, A Masked Ball, La traviata, Carmen, The Magic Flute, Lucia di Lammermoor, Tannhäuser, La Gioconda, Falstaff, Don Carlos, etc. From 2016 until 2019, he served as the general music director of the Hannover State Opera. During his tenure, he conducted many opera premieres (Salome, The Damnation of Faust, The Flying Dutchman, Manon Lescaut, Aida, etc.) and symphonic concerts. Since assuming the role of chief conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra in 2017, he has conducted a number of concertante performances of operas (Luisa Miller, The Two Foscari, Attila, The Swallow, Ero the Joker…) and orchestral music. He has recorded a number of albums in collaboration with eminent international soloists, the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Choir, which were released by leading European labels “BR-Klassik,” “Warner Classics,” and “CPO”.

Repušić has conducted numerous renowned orchestras in Europe and around the world: the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; the North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover; the Vienna Symphony Orchestra; the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan; the Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra; the Prague Symphony Orchestra; the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra in Oslo; the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra; the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra; and the Slovenian, Pannonian and Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestras etc. Repušić is a regular guest at European festivals and prestigious venues, such as the Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Musikverein in Vienna; Konzerthaus in Berlin; Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden; Gasteig, Herkulessaal, and Prinzregententheater in Munich; Smetana Hall in Prague; Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Hall in Luzern; the Verdi Festival in Parma etc. He routinely performs in various renowned German opera houses, such as the Hamburg State Opera (The Elixir of Love, Rigoletto, La bohème, Tosca), Semperoper in Dresden (The Magic Flute, La traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth, Tosca, Don Carlos), Staatsoper in Berlin (Rigoletto), Berlin Comic Opera (Rigoletto, La traviata), Aalto Musiktheater in Essen (Falstaff), etc.

Repušić studied conducting at the Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb under Igor Gjadrov and Vjekoslav Šutej. He continued developing his skills with renowned conductors, such as Jorma Panula, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Kazushi Ono, and Donald Runnicles. He started his professional career at the Croatian National Theatre in Split (2002) where he was chief conductor and director of the Opera (2006–2009). He conducted numerous performances of the Italian, French, Russian and Croatian operatic repertoire during that period (G. Verdi: Don Carlos, Aida, Simon Boccanegra, The Troubadour, Nabucco; G. Puccini: Sister Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, La bohème; P. I. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin; Ch. Gounod: Faust; G. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, The Elixir of Love; G. Rossini: Barber of Seville; R. Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci; J. Gotovac: Ero the Joker; J. Hatze: The Return, etc). He was active as director of music programmes at two renowned Croatian music festivals: Split Summer Festival (2006–2009) and Dubrovnik Summer Festival (2010–2012). He has been collaborating with the Zadar Chamber Orchestra as chief conductor since 2005. He also dedicated his time to teaching at the Arts Academy of the University of Split (2004–2016) where he gained the title of associate professor. He has received numerous Croatian awards for his artistic accomplishments, such as Vladimir Nazor Award, Vatroslav Lisinski Award, Milka Trnina Award, Orlando Award, the City of Zadar Award, etc. The Zadar University awarded an honorary doctorate to Maestro Repušić for his extraordinary contribution in the field of culture and art (2021).

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