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Great Comedy Overtures on Blu-ray Audio

- The flourishing genre of the comic opera had it's roots in

18th c. Italian opera buffa, whose irrepressible brio was soon

taken up outside the country's borders.

- In France it produced opera comique and operetta, and

in German-speaking countries Spieloper and Viennese

operetta.

- Some of the world's most popular comic opera overtures,

filled with gorgeous tunes, brilliant orchestration and raceto-

the-finish endings, are presented here.

- They include staples of the concert repertoire such as

Herold's dramatic Zampa, the textual delicacy of Wolf-

Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna and the vivid color of

Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann.

- The American Conductor, Boston University graduate and

multi-first prize competition winner Lance Friedel, here

conducting the RNSO, currently enjoys an active career in

Europe and the US.