Search - Richard Bonynge, Marina Bolgan, Giovanni Paisiello :: Giovanni Paisiello: Nina o sia La Pazza Per Amore

This is very light and lively with steady tempos

David Fletcher Noble | Highlands Ranch, CO United States | 11/14/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I loved this recording and the music is so touching! Boynage peforms with a good pace without depriving the arias of their grace and charm. The singers are very fine, though sometimes may struggle a bit with keeping in time to the rapid setting of the words. Better breathe control would have done this recording even greater justice. The music is a treasure and can transport the listener to the scene or an ambrosial world of paradise. I thought of Nina as similar to Shakespeare's Ophelia who loses her reason after losing Hamlet and dons in flowers and loose garments. But this opera of true feeling is supposed to reflect the realistic human conditions, not the grandour and ceremony of a heroic opera, or the disguises, confusions, and disputes of a comedy. The opera, I believe, is relief from the Tragedy and Comedy structures of the Baroque and Enlightenment foundations. This work is a bridge passing from the lovely sentiments of the Enlightenment to the passionate desires of the Romantic era. Like an ending and a beginning."