Leoncavallo: I Medici | CD review

Dessì/Lamanda/Domingo/Álvarez/Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra and Chorus/Veronesi (DG, 2CDs)Plácido Domingo and Alberto Veronesi are, it would seem, currently involved in something of a Leoncavallo reappraisal. Hard on the heels of their recording of his cantata La Nuit de Mai comes this performance of his 1893 opera I Medici, a wild, post-Wagnerian melodrama that was originally planned as part of Ring-like trilogy about the decline of Renaissance Italy. Set in Florence in 1478, the o...

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