Anita Rachvelishvili's powerful Marfa. The mezzo-soprano puts exceptional vocal skills at the service of a character that is both mystical and carnal. Her generous singing fills the whole space of the Bastille and propagates waves of vibrations, caressing or resolute in turn, on a consistently sustained vertiginous vocal range.
Read MoreA stratospheric vocal performance in the role of Azucena from Anita Rachvelishvili, whose sonorous voice of impressive expressiveness renders with remarkable sensitivity all the nuances of a very complex character, that fluctuates between bloodthirsty brutality and touching maternal love. Her “Stride la vampa” and later “Condotta ella era in ceppi” were much applauded by a truly exhilarated audience.
Read MoreThe centrepoint of the album is music by a Georgian composer; Rachvelishvili had done something similar on her previous, debut, album on Sony in which she had introduced music by another internationally neglected composer from that territory.
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