World Première Recording
GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797–1848) - Dalinda
(Critical RICORDI Edition by Eleonora Di Cintio)
Lidia Fridman, soprano (Dalinda)
Paolo Bordogna, bass-baritone (Acmet)
Luciano Ganci, tenor (Ildemaro)
Yajie Zhang, mezzo-soprano (Ugo d’Asti)
Andrés Moreno García, tenor (Elmelik)
David Oštrek, bass-baritone (Corboga)
Kangyoon Shine Lee, tenor (Garniero)
Fermin Basterra, tenor (Guglielmo)
Egor Sergeev, baritone (Ridolfo)
Kento Uchiyama, bass-baritone (Ubaldo)
Chor und Orchester der Berliner Operngruppe
Felix Krieger, conductor
Since its foundation in 2013, the Berliner Operngruppe has made a name for itself by giving annual, semistaged
first performances in Berlin of works such as Donizetti’s Deux hommes et une femme and Betly,
together with other operatic rarities. This album is the world premiere recording, made on 14 May 2023, of
Donizetti’s opera Dalinda, a work that had a brush with the censors, similar to that experienced by his opera
Lucrezia Borgia, and disappeared unperformed until it was rediscovered a few years ago by the musicologist
Eleonora Di Cintio, in whose critical RICORDI edition it’s heard here