Miah Persson – Sempre Libera (2015)
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Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: BIS-2112 SACD
Swedish singer Miah Persson throws her hat into the lyric soprano ring with Sempre Libera, a selection of arias to showcase her talents, recorded live in concert. She has a sweet voice, though not saccharine, and an assured technique. Like Tebaldi, her trill is not her strength (though, unlike that soprano, at least she includes them). However the voice never opens up at the top, where it remains quite polite, and her coloratura, though fluent, is not scintillating.
To the audiences of many of the world’s leading opera houses – the Metropolitan, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper – Miah Persson will be well-known as an infinitely charming Susanna, a beguiling Sophie and a coquettish Fiordiligi. On her latest recording for BIS she takes up a set of different roles, however, as she ventures into the fields of bel canto, opéra lyrique and verismo in the company of Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The range of characters is wide, from a teenage Juliet, eager to live life to the full in Gounod’s Je veux vivre, to Verdi’s Violetta, a courtesan at the height of her powers, who in her scene and aria È strano…tries to convince herself that her freedom is more valuable than love. The programme includes some of the emotional high points in the opera literature (Bellini’s Oh! quante volte, Puccini’s O mio babbino caro), as well as light relief (Norina’s cavatina So anch’io la virtù magica) and moments of pure, unadulterated beauty, such as the Flower Duet from Lakmé and Offenbach’s Barcarolle. In the two latter pieces, Miah Persson is joined by her Swedish colleague, the mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus, while the tenor Andrew Staples makes a cameo appearance in Sempre libera, as Alfredo, singing of his love for Violetta below her window.
Tracklist:
01. Donizetti: Don Pasquale – Quel guardo il cavaliere – So anch’io la virtù magica
02. Gounod: Faust – O Dieu! Que de bijoux! – Ah! Je ris de me voir si belle
03. Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi – Eccomi in lieta vesta – Oh! Quante volte
04. Gounod: Roméo et Juliette – Ah! Je veux vivre
05. Bizet: Carmen – C’est des contrebandiers le refuge ordinaire – Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante
06. Bizet: Carmen – Interlude Before Act III
07. Delibes: Lakmé – Viens, Mallika – Sous le dôme épais
08. Puccini: La Bohème – Quando m’en vo’
09. Meyerbeer: Dinorah – Ombre légère (Sung in French)
10. Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour
11. Messager: Madame Chrysanthème – Le jour sous le soleil béni
12. Verdi: La Traviata – È strano, è strano! – Sempre libera
13. Puccini: Gianni Schicchi – O mio babbino caro
Personnel:
Miah Persson – soprano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Daniel Harding
Note:
Recorded on March 31 – April 4, 2014 at the Berwald Hall in Stockholm, Sweden.
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