Il Verismo d'Oro [Super Audio CD]

None other than world star Montserrat Caballe praised her Spanish colleague Saioa Hernandez as the "diva of our century". Caballe herself had discovered the young Discovered the young soprano and encouraged her as a teacher.

Since her debut at La Scala in Milan in 2018, Saioa Hernandez has been a regular guest at major international opera houses such as the Royal Opera House in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. Now the rising star is releasing the album Il Verismo d'Oro with arias from the golden age of Italian verismo.

Voices such as Enrico Caruso's made verismo world-famous around 1900. The new style that emerged at the time was very close to naturalism Naturalism, as the highly dramatic plot often centers on a character from a peasant or working class background. And so the arias demand a hitherto unknown authenticity of expression and great flexibility of voice. For her album, Saioa Hernández chose rare arias from operatic works that were famous at the time but are now almost lost.