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2021-12-22 21:27:55
Anglais - Second Revival of Daniele Abbado’s Nabucco at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Written in 1841, Nabucco is considered to be the opera that established Giuseppe Verdi’s reputation as a composer. The Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, Jeremiah, Lamentations and Daniel and the 1836 play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Come, although Antonio Cortese’s 1836 ballet adaptation of the latter was a more important source for Solera than the play itself. The opera originally bore the title of Nabucodonosor, and premiered at La Scala on 9 March 1842. Set in 587 BC, the opera follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered and exiled from their homeland by Nabucco, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II. In this way, the historical events act as a background to a story that is full of love triangles and political scheming. In the opera, Nabucco finds it easy to conquer the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem because, […]
2019-11-16 09:33:00
Verdi - Nabucco -Fonit Cetra (Warner)
Giuseppe Verdi ( 1813-1901) Paolo Silveri, Caterina Mancini,Mario BenciAntonio Cassinelli, Gabriella GattiOrchestra sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAIdir: Fernando PrevitaliFonit Cetra- Warner Music Italia (2012) 2 CDs[flac & cue; cover, inlays, booklet & disc scans] Review "Source: RAI broadcast from Rome on January 16, 1951. Sound quality: Fairly good mono. Some background hiss comes and goes, presumably reflecting the qualities of the original matrices. Voices are clearly caught and generally given predominance over the orchestra. At times, individual voices, particularly that of Silveri, seem to be located in an overly resonant space. Documentation: Libretto in Italian. Timed track listings. Graphics in the booklet include portraits of Verdi, Giuseppina Strepponi, the first Abigaille who many years later became Verdi's second wife and of the librettist, Temistocle Solera, a Frasier Crane lookalike, who was rumored to have seduced a queen of Spain. Plot summary […]
2019-10-14 06:29:37
Bringing a rarity alive: Verdi's Un giorno di regno from Chelsea Opera Group
[…] to it with early Verdi ears, and not try to make it into Il trovatore and Rigoletto.Whilst the piece is not a riot, it is definitely fun. There is a plot, of sorts, but the double wedding at Baron Kelbar's castle co-inciding with a visit from the future King of Poland, on his way to claim his throne, results in an awkward series of encounters and pairings, both romantic and comic. That Verdi and Temistocle Solera (with whom Verdi wrote Oberto and Nabucco) reshaped the libretto by cutting, only served to emphasise this, and the piece can sometimes seem like a semi-random series of arias and ensembles. The essential point of the piece is unclear, is it just fun or is the emphasis on money significant? Kelbar's daughter Giulietta is to marry La Rocca who is elderly and rich, she doesn't want to and throughout the opera Kelbar and La […]
2019-05-03 06:20:05
Youthful Verdi revealed: a lithe and impulsive I Lombardi from Heidenheim
[…] third of Heidenheim's early Verdi series on Coviello Classics, Marcus Bosch conducts the Cappella Aquileia and Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, with Leon de la Guardia as Arvino, Pavel Kudinov as Pagano, Anna Werle as Viclinda, Ania Jeruc as Giselda, Daniel Dropulja as Pirro, Christoph Wittmann as the Prior of Milan, Andrew Nolen as Acciano, Marian Talaba as Oronte, and Kate Allen as Sofia.The dramaturgy of I Lombardi is unsatisfactory because Verdi and his librettist Temistocle Solera seem to have been concerned to keep the story highly compressed. The result is an opera which has under two hours of music despite a story which moves across time and distance. In fact, Verdi would return to the themes of I Lombardi in La Forza del Destino though the latter opera is on a far larger scale. The version of I Lombardi performed here is also cut, which does not always help the […]
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