Isabel Rey
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Isabel Rey is a Spanish operatic soprano
who has performed leading roles in the opera houses of Europe and appears on many recordings.
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
who has performed leading roles in the opera houses of Europe and appears on many recordings.
Discography
- Handel: Semele – Conductor: William ChristieWilliam Christie (musician)William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is noted as a specialist in baroque repertoire and as the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants....
; Rey, Bartoli, Workman (DECCA 2009) - Donizetti: Don PasqualeDon PasqualeDon Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The librettist Giovanni Ruffini wrote the Italian language libretto after Angelo Anelli's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Ser Marcantonio ....
– Conductor: Nello SantiNello SantiNello Santi is an Italian conductor. He is often called "Papa Santi" by his fellow musicians to show their high respect for his work.-Biography:...
; Rey, Flórez, Raimondi (DECCA 2009) - Mozart: La finta giardinieraLa finta giardinieraLa finta giardiniera , K. 196, is an Italian opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart wrote it in Munich in January 1775 when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance on January 13 at the Salvatortheater in Munich...
– Conductor: Nikolaus HarnoncourtNikolaus HarnoncourtNikolaus Harnoncourt is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement...
; Mei, Rey, Schaschina (TKD 2008) - Boccherini: Stabat MaterStabat Mater (Boccherini)The Stabat Mater is a work composed by Luigi Boccherini in 1781 and revised in 1801.Boccherini was a musician best known for chamber music . His vocal work is played less often...
– Conductor: Frizza; Rey, Barcellona (DECCA 2007) - Debussy: Pelléas et MélisandePelléas et Mélisande (opera)Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande...
– Conductor: Welser-Möst; Rey, Gilfry, Volle, Kalish (TKD 2006) - Purcell: King ArthurKing Arthur (opera)King Arthur or, The British Worthy , is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and alibretto by John Dryden. It was first performed at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, London, in late May or early June 1691....
– Conductor: Harnoncourt, Isabel Rey, Bonney, Remmert, (Salzburg Festival 2005) - Fernández Caballero: El dúo de la africana – Conductor: López Cobos; Rey, Rodríguez, Orozco , (Deutsche Grammophon 2004).
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Conductor: Harnoncourt; Gilfry, Mei, Rey, Chausson (TKD 2009).
- Varios: Arias y dúos de ópera – Conductor: Bragado; Rey, Gavanelli (RTVE).
- Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in PatriaIl ritorno d'Ulisse in patriaIl ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is an opera in a prologue and five acts , set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice during the 1639–1640 carnival season...
– Conductor: Harnoncourt; Rey, Kasarova, Henschel (ARTHAUS 2002). - Mozart: Don GiovanniDon GiovanniDon Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
– Conductor: Harnoncourt, Rey, Gilfry, Polgar, Bartoli (ARTHAUS 2001). - Various: Las Damas del Canto –Rey, De los Ángeles, Berganza, Scotto, Caballé, Bayo, Arteta (RTVE Música 2001).
- César Cano: Te Deum – Conductor: Galduf; Rey, Mentxaca, Cid (Petagas S.A. 2001).
- Various: Canciones para la navidad – Piano: Zabala; Isabel Rey (Discmedi 1999).
- Various: Natsu no Omoide – Guitar: Suzuki; Isabel Rey (Discmedi 1999)
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Conductor: Harnoncourt; Rey, Hampson, Margiono, Bonney (Teldec 1994)
- Various: The Passion of Spain – Rey, Carreras (Teldec 1993)
- Various: Opera Gala – Rey, Caballé, De los Ángeles, Carreras, González, Pons (RTVE 1992).
Sources
- Cummings, David (ed.), "Rey, Isabel", International Who's Who in Classical Music, Routledge, 2003, p. 654. ISBN 185743174X
- Llorente, J. Antonio, "Isabel Rey, soprano: «Voy a ser una tía estupenda para el resto de mis dias»" (in Spanish), ABC, 24 August 2004
- Rus, César, "El talento de Isabel Rey" (in Spanish), Las Provincias, 25 June 2006