Gioachino Rossini - L'italiana in Algeri - "Languir per una bella" (Raul Gimenez)

[lyrictenorfan]

LindoroRossini, your comment on one of my favorite arias is very informative, as always. I looked up the exact name of the lovely Victorian painting: "The Gallery of H.M.S. 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth)" – 1877.

[meowmeowpowa134]

Che bella voce!!! STUPENDO  MAESTRO!!!

[meowmeowpowa134]

Che bella voce!!! BRAVO!

[MsOpera7]

Remarkably! Very beautifully. Raul Gimenez BRAVO!!!

[oruamavlis]

A very wise view of Lindoro! A good analysis of the emotional perspective of the character.

[caribolas]

he slips up on the cadenza

[omgomgLAWLZ]

What is the painting in the video, and who painted it? It is very lovely; it has a sort of impressionist feel to it.

[LindoroRossini]

I'm more than sure that it's James Tissot but the name of the painting escapes me :P.

[jay377777]

Good comments. I never thought this as a rescue opera but in a sense it is, but one where the roles are reversed(vs Torvaldo e Dorliska for example) and one where charm is used to achieve the end desired.

You also have some interesting comments of how Coccia was to have written this, he must have dragged is feet and lost his commission.

Very effective and demaning(on the tenor) aria.