インドミタ (Indomita)

不屈のオペラ・ヒロインに捧ぐ
実力派リリック・ソプラノ、エレオノーラ・ブラットが
ソロ・アルバムを堂々リリース!

近年、声楽曲、オペラ作品の精力的なリリースでも注目されるオランダのPENTATONEレーベルからまたしても注目の新譜が登場!今、世界で最も高く評価されている実力派リリック・ソプラノ、エレオノーラ・ブラットがソロ・アルバム『インドミタ(Indomita)』をリリースします。

ブラットの日本デビューは2014年、ローマ歌劇場来日公演にてバルバラ・フリットリの代役としてヴェルディの歌劇『シモン・ボッカネグラ』に登場し、その歌声と高い技術で話題となりました。このアルバムでは19世紀イタリア・オペラの3人の偉大な作曲家が残したオペラの名アリアから、それぞれのヒロインたちに敬意を表する内容。ブラットにとってベッリーニの『海賊』、ドニゼッティの『アンナ・ボレーナ』『ルクレツィア・ボルジア』、ヴェルディの『二人のフォスカリ』『アロルド』のこれらの場面は、1850年以降のドラマティック・オペラで成功を収める彼女にとって核となるレパートリー。各作品で描かれる不屈のヒロインたちの美しさと力強さは、彼女の声にぴったりとフィットし、19世紀のイタリア・オペラの発展をこの上なく表現できる実力を持っています。
PENTATONE

The physical booklet is recommended for listeners to this album, both for the delightfully imperious note by the singer herself and for the discussion by Nicola Catto, who points out that here "one must refer to a vocal classification created in 1949 for Maria Callas: the soprano drammatico dagilito ("dramatic, agile soprano")." Look up Eleonora Buratto, even on her own website, and one finds references to a lyric soprano, but that doesnt quite cover it. The reference to Callas is apt, for Buratto is an exciting upcoming specimen of the full-throated, high-drama sort; she doesnt go to the extremes of Callas (which is probably a good thing, depending on ones perspective), but she is willing to introduce a good deal of vibrato, and some dramatic guts in the lower registers. Her program is strong, proceeding on a chronological path from Bellini to Donizetti and finally to two rarely heard Verdi operas, I due Foscari (1844) and Aroldo (1857), an Italian reworking of Stiffelio aimed at evading censors and critics of the earlier operas German characters. In this way, one can hear how composers exploited the new vocal resources that were developing in the middle 19th century. She characterizes the Bellini and Donizetti heroines strongly and moves into the difficult arias from Aroldo without strain; these are good to sample for an idea of the big instrument here. Conductor Sesto Quatrini has the right combination of lightness and energy in his leadership of the Orchestra dellOpera Carlo Felice. With Buratto moving into recordings of major operatic roles -- her recording of Tosca opposite the rising male star of the moment, Jonathan Tetelman, also appeared in 2025 -- she is clearly a voice that is going to be heard from often in the later 2020s. As it is, this album made classical best-seller lists in the spring of 2025. ~ James Manheim