Giordano/ Botha - Italian Opera Arias Release:Italian Opera Arias Orfeo With selections spanning Hovhaness' rich

With selections spanning Hovhaness' rich musical career

This collection brings together concertos by Brahms

which he gave the first performance of less than a year before his death in December 1791

Zoe Gotusso

Giordano/ Botha - Italian Opera Arias Release:Italian Opera Arias Orfeo With selections spanning Hovhaness' richJohan Botha was heard at the Vienna Staatsoper a total of 222 times before his untimely death. His powerful, truly great voice shone like a beacon across the world of opera. Though he was mostly known as a singer of the German opera repertoire, he also had amazing success with Italian operas which are documented on this double album. Alongside partners like Krassimira Stoyanova, Violeta Urmana and Dmitri Hvorostovsky he knew how to enthrall the Vienna