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| |  | Verdi: Opera Highlights
Verdi: | Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata) Caro nome (from Rigoletto) Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (from Rigoletto) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto) Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Il balen del suo sorriso (from Il Trovatore) Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore) Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) D'amor sull'ali rosee (from Il Trovatore) Ai nostri monti (from Il trovatore) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Nel dì della vittoria … Ambizioso spirto … Vieni t'affretta! … Or tutti sorgete (Lady Macbeth) Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera) O tu che in seno agli angeli (from La Forza del Destino) Rataplan, rataplan, della gloria (from La forza del destino) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Dio, che nell'alma infondere (from Don Carlo) O don fatale (from Don Carlo) O Carlo, ascolta (from Don Carlo) Celeste Aida (from Aida) Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) O terra, addio (from Aida) Era la notte (from Otello) Ave Maria (from Otello) L'onore! Ladri! (from Falstaff) Del tuo barbero diagnostico (from Falstaff) |
Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballe, Mirella Freni, Leontyne Price, Beverly Sills, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sopranos), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo), Placido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus, Jon Vickers, Carlo Bergonzi (tenors), Sherrill Milnes, Tito Gobbi (baritones) Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Herbert von Karajan |
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| |  | Domingo conducts Milnes! Milnes conducts Domingo!
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ACT I 1 Questa o quella (Duke) 1.49 2 Pari siamo! (Rigoletto) 3.33 3 Figlia!…Mio padre! (Rigoletto/Gilda/Giovanna) 6.42 4 Ah, veglia, o donna (Rigoletto/Gilda/Giovanna/Duke) 5.28 5 È il sol dell’anima (Duke/Gilda) 3.24 6 Addio! speranza ed anima (Duke/Gilda) 1.12 7 Gualtier Maldè!…Caro nome (Gilda/Borsa/Ceprano/Marullo) 6.41 ACT II 8 Ella mi fu rapita!…Parmi veder le lagrime (Duke) 5.26 9 Possente amor mi chiama (Duke/Borsa/Marullo/Ceprano/Chorus) 3.01 10 Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Rigoletto) 4.31 11 Tutte le feste al tempio (Gilda/Rigoletto) 6.44 ACT III 12 La donna è mobile (Duke) 2.16 13 Un dì, si ben rammentomi…Bella figlia dell’amore (Duke/Maddalena/Gilda/Rigoletto) 6.09 14 V’ho ingannato…Lassù in cielo (Gilda/Rigoletto) 4.45 62.00
“Kraus’s singing is elegant and attractive throughout … The Philharmonia plays with admirable élan and a great deal of subtlety for Rudel.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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1. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - Ecco ridente in cielo (Conte) 2. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - La ran la le ra la ran la la ... Largo al factotum ... (Figaro) 3. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - All'idea di quel metallo (Conte/Figaro) 4. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - Una voce poco fà (Rosina) 5. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - La calunnia è un venticello (Basilio) 6. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - Dunque io son (Figaro/Rosina) 7. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - A un dottor della mia sorte (Bartolo) 8. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - Contro un cor che accende amore (Rosina/Conte) 9. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - Don Basilio! ... Cosa veggo! (Rosina/Conte/Figaro/Bartolo/Basilio) 10. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - Ah, qual colpo inaspettato! (Figaro/Conte/Rosina) 11. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Digital Remaster) - Di sì felice innesto (Tutti)
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Adriana Lecouvreur, although a melodramatic fictional tale, is based on a real-life actress of the ComÉdie-FranÇaise, and is the only one of Cilea’s operas to have held a place in the repertory, albeit on the fringes. The opera is tuneful and melodic with some arias that are also occasionally heard in recital but its main challenge is for a dramatic soprano and this is amply demonstrated here by Renata Scotto. “Francesco Cilea's… dramatic balance between light and shade, delicate orchestration and thunderous melodrama, are all superbly served by the Philharmonia and James Levine on top form… Maria Callas could not have outstripped Scotto in this title role… Domingo sounds ardent and ideally youthful as her aristocratic boyfriend... Altogether unsurpassable.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2009 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Cotrubas makes an ideal heroine in this opera, for her characterization combines strength with vulnerability...Kleiber's direction is controversial, with more than a hint of Toscanini-like rigidity in the party music...[but] the overall effect is highly involving, indeed thrilling, and this reissue must be counted an outstanding success.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **/*** “I am bound to say that, in terms of singing, playing, conducting and sound quality, this set comes closer to my notions of an ideal experience than any Verdi I have ever heard on disc.” Records and Recording, December 1977 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Levine's 1975 Barber offers a coloratura soprano Rosina instead of the mezzo Rossini intended. Sills is on the brittle side, Milnes's Figaro is crass and Gedda's off form.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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