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By Ralph P. Locke

Antônio Carlos Gomes’s Lo schiavo (The Slave) receives its first major recording &#; and stakes its claim in the repertory.

Antônio Carlos Gomes, Lo schiavo

Svetla Vassileva (Ilàra), Elisa Balbo (Countess di Boissy), Massimiliano Pisapi (Américo), Andrea Borghini (Iberè), Daniele Terenzi (Gianfèra), Dongho Kim (Count Rodrigo, Goitacà) Cagliari Teatro Lirico/ John Neschling

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Antônio Carlos Gomes () was Brazil’s most successful opera composer, yet, because he spent most of his professional life in Italy, his operas are almost all in Italian.

A new recording &#; the first major one &#; of his Lo schiavo (The Slave) proves why he was so widely appreciated in Italy and Brazil in the late nineteenth century and brings us a work that can hold its head high along with repertory staples such as Ponchielli’s La gioconda.

I suspect we have now found Gomes’s best opera, which therefore is also, most likely, Bra