Rossini * Aureliano in Palmira _ "Non piangete o sventurati" / Luciana Serra

Teatro Politeama in Genoa (September 1980), conducted by Giacomo Zani, with Paolo Barbacini as Aureliano, Helga Müller-Molinari as Arsace, and Luciana Serra as Zenobia.
Luciana Serra is an Italian coloratura soprano. She made her international debut in 1966 as Eleonora in Cimarosa's Il convito at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, but did not achieve general acclaim until the late 1970s, when she took on coloratura roles in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Bellini's La sonnambula. In 1988, Serra debuted at the Vienna State Opera singing the Queen of the Night in a new production of Die Zauberflöte conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and staged by Otto Schenk.
Her fame reached a peak during the break of the 1980s and 1990s, when she performed the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House in London and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She regularly teaches at Villa Medici in Rome and at the Accademia La Scala in Milan. Her recordings includes Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il viaggio a Reims, Rigoletto, Don Pasquale and Die Zauberflöte.
Aureliano in Palmira is an operatic dramma serio in two acts written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto in which the librettist was credited only by the initials "G. F. R." It premiered at La Scala in Milan on 26 December 1813. The libretto has generally been attributed to Felice Romani, but sometimes to the otherwise unknown Gian Francesco Romanelli. It has been suggested that the latter name may have resulted from a confusion of Romani with Luigi Romanelli, La Scala's house poet prior to Romani's appointment to the post.
The story was based on the libretto by Gaetano Sertor for Pasquale Anfossi's 1789 opera Zenobia in Palmira and it centers on the rivalry between the Roman Emperor Aurelian and Prince Arsace of Persia over the beautiful Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra.

[@brunoantony3218]

Incredibly precise singing from this magnificent artist, brava Luciana!

[@innamoratopazzo1792]

Un àngel cantando ❣️

[@mariociarimboli2485]

Viva Rossini, e ve lo dice un diciassettenne!

[@hedymattosdossantosnogueir4115]

Lindo!! 👏👏👏👏

[@luizmiranda1950]

Bravo! Belíssimo, apoteótico, sublime, perfeito!

[@qsw-1228]

Does anyone else think she & Bette Midler are twins damn there about.