The Art of the Virtuoso Baritone Giorgio Caoduro, Virtuosi Brunenses & Jacopo Brusa

• Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868):
• 1 Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska: Oh qual voce d’intorno rimbomba 05:25
• 2 Rossini: La Cenerentola (Excerpts): Scegli la sposa, affrettati 07:17
• 3 Rossini: La Cenerentola (Excerpts): Un segreto d'importanza 05:04
• 4 Rossini: La gazza ladra: Accusata di furto 06:09
• 5 Rossini: Il signor Bruschino: Nel teatro del gran mondo 05:37
• 6 Rossini: Semiramide: Si, vi sarà vendetta 10:30
• 7 Rossini: L'inganno felice: Una voce m'ha colpito 06:06
• 8 Rossini: Guillaume Tell: Sois immobile 02:51
• 9 Rossini: La Cenerentola (Excerpts): Si, tutto cangerà 09:05
• 10 Rossini: Alle voci della gloria 11:04
• Total Runtime 01:09:08

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Giorgio Caoduro is one of the leading Italian baritones of his generation and one of the reigning Bel Canto singers of today. He has appeared at such renowned opera houses as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra National de Paris, La Scala di Milano, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Regio Torino, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Liceu Barcelona, San Francisco Opera, or Los Angeles Opera House. At the center of his singing are the bel canto roles of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. With his selection of highly virtuosic arias from operas by Rossini, Giorgio Caoduro reminds us of the dazzling richness of the repertoire composed for this type of voice, a repertoire in which the old roles of basso buffo, the more modern ones of tyrants, afflicted fathers or repentant criminals converged, and finally where the roles of mature heroes were already appearing, roles to which Verdi would give, a few years later, their letters of nobility.

Giorgio Caoduro, baritone
Fabio Maria Capitanucci, baritone (tracks 2, 3)
Cecilia Bernini, mezzo-soprano (tracks 2, 9)
Anna Viola, soprano (track 2)
Alessandro Cortello, tenor (track 2)
Virtuosi Brunenses
Jacopo Brusa, direction

Giorgio Caoduro
Born in Monfalcone (Italy) in 1980, Giorgio Caoduro studied singing with soprano Cecilia Fusco since 1998. In 2000 he won the 50th edition of the international opera competition As.Li.Co.

He sang the main baritone roles of the belcanto repertoire in the most prestigious theaters in the world, like Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at La Scala, Opéra National de Paris, Dallas, Sydney Opera House, Capitoul de Toulouse, Lausanne and Palermo; Dandini (La Cenerentola) at the Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Glyndebourne, Rome and Lausanne; Taddeo (L'Italiana in Algeri) at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Aix en Provence and Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin; Belcore (L'Elisir d'amore) at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Carlo Felice di Genova, La Scala, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and San Francisco; Ping (Turandot) in Turin, Venice, Naples, London's Covent Garden and Opera de Montecarlo; Enrico (Lucia di Lammeroor) at Sydney Opera House, Melbourne State Theater, in Bologna and in Barcelona; Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) in Montpellier, Festival d'Aix en Provence, Luxembourg, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Seoul Opera Center.

He worked with conductor such as Riccardo Muti, Carlo Rizzi, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Riccardo Frizza, Bruno Bartoletti, Daniel Harding, Bruno Campanella, Nicola Luisotti, Daniel Oren, James Conlon, Michel Plasson and Zubin Mehta, and directors like Pier Luigi Pizzi, Jerome Savary, Maurizio Scaparro, Massimo Ranieri, Irina Brook, Sir Peter Hall, Toni Servillo, Luca Ronconi, Stefano Vizioli, Denis Krief, Andrej Serban, Francisco Negrin, Marco Bellocchio e Laurent Pelly.

He recently appeared in the TV production "Rigoletto in Mantua" featuring Placido Domingo and Zubin Metha, broadcasted live worldwide, as Marullo.

He is the recipient of the 2012 Green Room Award for best Opera Male Principal.

He appears in the Dvd of "L'Italiana in Algeri" from the Aix en Provence Festival by BelAir Classic, in the Dvd and Cd of "Il Borgomastro di Saardam" from Bergamo's Donizetti Festival published by Dynamic and in the Cd of "La grotta di Trofonio" from Martina Franca published by Dynamic.

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