Thomas / Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Great Comedy Overtures - Music & Performance - Blu-ray

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.