Rosa Feola came to international attention after winning multiple awards including Second Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Zarzuela Prize at the 2010 Operalia Competition. Chicago audiences have heard the Italian soprano as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Orff’s Carmina Burana (2012) and Verdi’s Falstaff (2016); and with Lyric Opera in one of her signature roles, Gilda in Rigoletto (2017). Rosa Feola joins WFMT to share selections from her acclaimed discography of rare Italian art song and arias, including the latest volume of Opera Rara’s Donizetti Song Project.
An interview with Rosa Feola
Rosa Feola (Photo: Todd Rosenberg)
Playlist
All selections feature soprano Rosa Feola.
Gaetano Donizetti: “Tu mi chiedi s’io t’adoro”
Carlo Rizzi, piano
Niccolò Piccinni: “Son regina e sono amante” from Didone abbandonata
Cappella Neapolitana/Antonio Florio
Gioachino Rossini: Inflammatus from Stabat Mater
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra/Howard Arman
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
V. Finale. In Tempo des Scherzos
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra /Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Amilcare Ponchielli: “Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare”
Franz Liszt: “Pace non trovo” from Tre sonetti di Petrarca
Iain Burnside, piano
Donizetti: La fidanzata
Sally Price, harp
Donizetti: La zingara
Carlo Rizzi, piano
