Donizetti Songs #2: Nicola Alaimo joins Carlo Rizzi

Donizetti Songs #2: Nicola Alaimo joins Carlo Rizzi

Looking at Nicola Alaimo's repertoire and performances, his sheer number of Donizetti roles is only equalled by those of his Rossini performances; h is a major interpreter. The first song, Al campo della gloria, has material first used in an act 1 duet between the titular Belisario and Alamiro in Belasario; this is heard in a more domestic stain here, though, and therefore more reined-in. Alaimo has the most amazing voice, honeyed, expensive and…