Rossi: Cleopatra – review

Theodossiou/Liberatore/ Catana/Marchigiana Philharmonic/Crescenzi(Naxos, 2CDs)"If you like Verdi, you will almost certainly enjoy this," runs the blurb for this recording of Lauro Rossi's 1876 opera Cleopatra. Rossi (1812-1885), fashionable in the 1840s, was attempting a career revival by clambering on the Egyptology bandwagon made popular by Aida (1871), not only by tackling the most famous Egyptian story of all, but also by composing the roles of Cleopatra and Antony for singers famous fo...

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