Antônio Carlos Gomes Lo Schiavo (2019)

Lo schiavo was conceived as a politically engaged work However the issue was rather volatile and the composer had to change the contemporary time setting to a more distant one In Brazil the opera was a triumph but elsewhere it failed to gain popularity and soon fell into oblivion This recording of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliaris production documents the operas first performance in modern times and reveals Gomes flamboyant richness of melodic creativity his sound grasp of construction and a technical mastery of the theatrical mechanisms that are always of the highest level