Rosa Feola & Iain Burnside

MUSIC
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 & 15, 2020
7:30 PM

Board of Officers Room, Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$75
http://armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/recital_series_rosa_feola

Rosa Feola has all the Opera Queens going apeshit over her lyric soprano, so that's one reason to attend this appealing recital.  The other, though, is repertoire:  it consists entirely of non-operatic Italian vocal music, a very rewarding body of work that gets too infrequent airings.  The focus is on the Generazione dell'Ottana that brought Early Modernism to Italy (albeit in a very concervative and melodic way).  But I'm plugging this recital for some pieces by their mentor, Martucci, who's sort of a lesser-known Fauré (how's that for obscurity?).  Also, Rossini's La Regata Veneziana is a hoot.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Donahue's again.  Sorry.  (Did you know they're about to open up a branch on the West Side?)