I Gioielli della Madonna CD review – stylish reading of Wolf-Ferrari's rarity

Kim/Čapkovič/Bernhard/Slovak National Theatre Chorus/Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Haider(Naxos)A queasy brew of incense and incest, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s 1911 hit opera The Jewels of the Madonna is now almost forgotten, but Opera Holland Park staged it in 2013, and now comes this, apparently its first full recording, taken from a staging in Bratislava last summer. Its love triangle plot, involving a woman aspiring unsympathetically to freedom, her creepy stepbrother and a Camorr...

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