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Review title: A wasted oportunity
Product review: Semiramide is a formidable masterpiece, an extraordinary opera. So far record companies have favoured Tosca and Gioconda over this far greater opera, but well, that's another topic. This very expensive recording turned out a very sour lemon. I have no idea who decided on hiring such a young and inexperienced conductor as Ion Marin for this very complex opera, his reading of the great overture is unbelievably bad, he seems to be sight reading the score for the first time. Cheryl Studer is pale and annonymous as Semiramide, she just doesn't seem to have any ideas on the role, what a pity Lella Cuberli was not preferred. Larmore, Ramey and Loppardo are the redeeming features, too little too late perhaps. DG please notice that if this recording didn't sell well, it was all your fault, not Rossini's.
