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2015-01-12 15:53:19
Perfectly Franco
It’s Corelli two ways and across nearly two decades in this dream double bill of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana Metropolitan Opera Carlo Felice Cillario, conductor 18 June 1973 In-house recording Santuzza – Elinor Ross Turiddu – Franco Corelli Alfio – Guillermo Sarabia Lola – Judith Forst Mamma Lucia – Batyah Godfrey Ben-David Ruggiero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci RAI Orchestra and Chorus, Milano Alfredo Simonetto, conductor 26 September 1954 Canio – Franco Corelli Tonio – Tito Gobbi Nedda – Mafalda Micheluzzi Silvio – Lino Puglisi Beppe – Maro Carlin
2013-02-14 03:08:00
Verdi Giovanna D'Arco Full broadcasts
[…] Watch the scene where the crowd, dressed in masks, parade around carrying candles, singing "Viva, Viva" though we know they're out for Giovanna's blood. The candles look like spikes or staves, a reference to the armies Joan lead into battle, the violence now turned upon her. Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco has been recorded many times, so if you want audio-only, you're spoiled for choice. For starters : Renata Tebaldi and Carlo Bregonzi with Alfredo Simonetto, from Milan 1951, or Monserrat Caballé and Placido Domingo with Levine (1973). HERE is a link to a full broadcast of the 1996 Royal Opera House production conducted by Daniela Gatti, with June Anderson and Dennis O'Neill. It comes with full libretto, too. Lots more on this site on the theme of Joan of Arc in music, film, opera and literature. Some quite unusal, like Honegger (with Ingrid Bergman) and Braunfels. and […]
2012-08-17 01:43:00
[…] is pleasant and fluid, with arias, duos, trios, quintets, sextets and septets cunningly disposed. After his dramatic first opera, "Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio", he tried his hand at comedy with bad luck, a mediocre cast certainly unhelpful. "Un giorno..." was staged with better results in Venice, Rome and Naples; however, it soon disappeared from the repertoire until after World War II. Cetra recorded it in the Fifties conducted by Simonetto with Pagliughi and Capecchi, and later Gardelli led a star-studded cast in a Philips recording: Norman, Cossotto, Carreras, Ganzarolli. Even then the European theatres were slow to put it on stage. It is unfair: the piece certainly is worth knowing. The intensely dramatic Verdi that was to follow nevertheless capped his career with the miraculous "Falstaff", definitive proof of his genius for comedy. Dante Ranieri was our most […]
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