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Gian-Carla Tisera, Elio Villafranca: Nora la Bella

Read "Nora la Bella" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 17, 2015

La boliviana (ma californiana d'adozione) Gian-Carla Tisera, in combutta col pianista e arrangiatore cubano Elio Villafranca, tenta uno dei suoi improbabili patchwork (che qualcuno giudica persino audaci, mentre sono semplicemente kitsch-compiacenti) in questo suo nuovo lavoro, che trascorre con emblematica disinvoltura da Puccini agli Inti Illimani e coinvolge fra gli altri il trombettista argentino Diego Urcola, già partner dei vari Jimmy Heath, Dizzy Gillespie (orchestrale) e Paquito D'Rivera. A unificare il prodotto è la voce della cantante--lirico ...

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Gian-Carla Tisera: Nora La Bella

Read "Nora La Bella" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
July 24, 2014

Gian-Carla Tisera was raised in Bolivia and completed her Masters in Opera Performance at the University of Southern California. In 2004, she recorded Bolivian Baroque with Florilegium early music ensemble under the Dutch label Channel Classics and has toured with Florilegium throughout Europe, Bolivia, Turkey, Singapore and the United States. In 2012 Tisera produced and recorded her debut album, which was co-produced by Elio Villafranca. The album featured arrangements of opera arias and Latin American songs displaying her operatic singing ...