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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Voice of Elena Souliotis
Donizetti: | Piangete voi? ... Al dolce guidami castel natio (from Anna Bolena) Orchestra dell’Opera di Roma, Oliviero de Fabritiis | Mascagni: | Voi lo sapete o mamma (from Cavalleria rusticana) Orchestra di Roma, Silvio Varviso | Ponchielli: | Suicidio! (from La Gioconda) Orchestra di Roma, Silvio Varviso | Verdi: | Ben io t'invenni … Anch'io dischiuso … Salgo già (from Nabucco) Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Opernorchester, Lamberto Gardelli Nel dì della vittoria … Ambizioso spirto … Vieni t'affretta! … Or tutti sorgete (Lady Macbeth) Orchestra dell’Opera di Roma, Oliviero de Fabritiis Tu puniscimi, o Signore … A brani, a brani, o perfido (from Luisa Miller) Orchestra dell’Opera di Roma, Oliviero de Fabritiis Morrò, ma prima in grazia (from Un Ballo in Maschera) Orchestra dell’Opera di Roma, Oliviero de Fabritiis Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera) Orchestra di Roma, Silvio Varviso Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Orchestra di Roma, Silvio Varviso |
Elena Souliotis, hailed as a successor to Maria Callas, resembled a comet that flashed brightly across the operatic scene and was all too soon extinguished. With a lifelong love of horseriding and the outdoors, she often commented that she preferred animals to people. She spent much of her childhood in the spectacular garden of her parents’ home in Buenos Aires, only starting to train her voice when she was 16.While she was active, she recorded some memorable discs for Decca in the mid-1960s, most of the ‘plums’ of which are included here, recalling the excitement she then created. This collection, which first appeared on Decca’s ‘Grandi Voci’ series, includes a complete recital recorded by Decca; Santuzza’s aria ‘Voi lo sapete’ from the complete recording of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, and items by Verdi and Ponchielli recorded at the same sessions under Silvio Varviso. Also included are one of her calling cards, Abigaille’s terrifying Act II scena ‘Ben io t’invenni’ from the complete and much-prized recording of Verdi’s Nabucco by Lamberto Gardelli, and an aria from Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. As Alan Blyth who wrote the original liner notes remarks: ‘It is good to be reminded of her achievement by the reappearance of these interpretations and to hear again, in an age of too many mundane and orthodox singers, such a splendidly uninhibited artist, one who could rouse an audience to a frenzy through her singing and her acting.’ “Christine Schäfer brings concentration and poise to each of these songs, and sings seemingly effortlessly in her exquisite high lyric soprano … There is no feeling of routine in these studio performances and the accompaniments by Irwin Gage are exemplary in their equal sensitivity and well balanced by Rainer Maillard, who does not suppress the piano at all at climaxes … A first class CD, recommended unreservedly.” MusicWeb International | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Verdi: The Operas
Verdi: | Aida recorded in Rome in 1961 Leontyne Price (Aida), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighele (Una Sacerdotessa) Orchestra e coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Un ballo in maschera recorded in Rome in 1961 Carlo Bergonzi (Riccardo), Cornell MacNeil (Renato), Birgit Nilsson (Amelia), Giulietta Simionato (Ulrica), Sylvia Stahlman (Oscar), Tom Krause (Silvano), Fernando Corena (Samuel), Liberto Arbace (Tom), Piero de Palma (Un giudice), Vittorio Pandano (Un servo d’Amelia) Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma Don Carlo recorded in London in 1965; five-act Italian version Carlo Bergonzi (Don Carlo), Renata Tebaldi (Elisabetta), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Filippo II), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Rodrigo), Grace Bumbry (Eboli), Martti Talvela (Il Grande Inquisitore) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Falstaff recorded in Rome in 1963 Geraint Evans (Falstaff), Robert Merrill (Ford), Ilva Ligabue (Alice Ford), Rosalind Elias (Meg Page), Giulietta Simionato (Mistress Quickly), Alfredo Kraus (Fenton), Mirella Freni (Nannetta), John Lanigan (Dottore Caius), Giovanni Foiani (Pistola), Piero de Palma (Bardolfo) RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus Otello recorded in Vienna in 1977 Carlos Cossutta (Otello), Margaret Price (Desdemona), Gabriel Bacquier (Iago), Peter Dvorsky (Cassio), Kurt Equiluz (Rodrigo), Kurt Moll (Lodovico), Stafford Dean (Montano), Jane Berbié (Emilia), Hans Helm (Un Araldo) Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsopernchor Simon Boccanegra recorded in Milan in 1988 Leo Nucci (Simon Boccanegra), Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria/Amelia), Paata Burchuladze (Jacopo Fiesco), Paolo Coni (Paolo Albiani), Carlo Colombara (Pietro), Giacomo Aragall (Gabriele Adorno), Ernesto Gavazzi (Un Capitano dei balestri), Anna Zoroberto (Un’Ancella di Amelia) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano La Traviata recorded live at Covent Garden in 1994 Angela Gheorghiu (Violetta), Frank Lopardo (Alfredo), Leo Nucci (Germont), Leah-Marian Jones (Flora), Gillian Knight (Annina), Robin Leggate (Gastone), Richard Van Allan (Barone Douphol), Roderick Earle (Marchese d’Obigny), Mark Beesley (Dottore Grenvil), Neil Griffiths (Giuseppe), Rodney Gibson (Domestico di Flora) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Gli arredi festivi (from Nabucco) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Gerusalem! (from I Lombardi) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra O signore, dal tetto natio (from I Lombardi) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Tre volte (from Macbeth) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Patria oppressa (from Macbeth) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Le rube, gli stupri (from I Masnadieri) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Zitti, Zitti (from Rigoletto) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Squilli, echeggi la tromba (from Il Trovatore) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Noi siamo zingarelle (from La Traviata) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Posa in pace (from Un Ballo in Maschera) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Fuoco di gioia (from Otello) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Sanctus (from Requiem) Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Zurich Opera House 2006
Complete Opera Recording + Exclusive Bonus Feature: More than 130 minutes of highlights from 45 critically acclaimed opera, ballet & documentary productions on Blu-ray Disc! + Arthaus Musik Blu-ray Catalogue Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 7.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), GB, DE, FR, ES, Korean Running Time: 128 mins + 130 mins (bonus) Blu-ray Disc: 50 GB (Dual Layer) FSK: 0 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Maria Callas: Lyric & Coloratura Arias
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| |  | Live Recording from The Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1962
Renata Tebaldi (Desdemona), Hans Beirer (Otello), William Dooley (Jago), Mario Ferrara (Cassio), Sieglinde Wagner (Emilia), Karl-Ernst Mercker (Rodrigo), Ivan Sardi (Lodovico), Pecca Salomaa (Montano) Deutsche Oper Berlin, Giuseppe Patané (conductor) & Hans-Peter Lehmann (stage director) Set & Costumes by WILHELM REINKING When Renata Tebaldi sang Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello at London’s Covent Garden in 1950, it was her first operatic performance outside Italy. It was also the role in which she made her last appearance on the opera stage, at the Metropolitan Opera New York in 1973. Between these two performances she made close to a hundred stage appearances as Desdemona, not to mention two studio recordings with Alberto Erede and Herbert von Karajan. It was Arturo Toscanini who coined for her the moniker “voce d’angelo” (voice of an angel). She made her highly acclaimed debut as Desdemona at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and from that moment on made New York the focus of her life. From there she made regular and extended concert tours all over the world, but opera appearances in Europe – particularly northern Europe – were extremely rare. Tebaldi visited Berlin on just two occasions. She gave a rapturously received concert in the Deutschlandhalle in May 1961. On that occasion she promised her fans she would return, and the Berliner Morgenpost even heard it “rumoured” she would appear in her classic role as Desdemona at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was about to reopen. This Otello production was planned as a media event from the outset, with cameras in attendance even at the preliminary rehearsal stage. Whereas the first performance took place before an invited audience on 30 August 1962 and was given over entirely to a TV recording by Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), the second performance was open to the opera-going public and was broadcast by SFB-Hörfunkprogramm. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Subtitles: IT (Original Language), DE, GB, FR, ES Running Time: 150 mins FSK: 0 “Dooley is a sinister Iago” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 **** “[Tebaldi's] floated pianissimo singing is especially impressive but in every respect this is world class vocalism.” MusicWeb International, 16th May 2013 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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This live perfomance of Nabucco was recorded in Florence on 26th August 1961. The Italian conductor Bruno Bartoletti is particularly associated with Italian operatic repertoire. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Verdi: Six Great Operas
Verdi: | Aida Katia Ricciarelli (Aida), Plácido Domingo (Radamès), Elena Obraztsova (Amneris), Leo Nucci (Amonasro), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis), Ruggero Raimondi (Il Re di Egitto), Lucia Valentini-Terrani (Una Sacerdotessa) & Piero De Palma (Un Messaggero) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala Un ballo in maschera studio recording, 1979 Placido Domingo (Riccardo), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Renato Bruson (Renato), Elena Obraztsova (Ulrica), Edita Gruberova (Oscar), Ruggero Raimondi (Samuele), Giovanni Foiani (Tom), Antonio Savastano (Un Giudice) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Don Carlos (Five-act French version) studio recording, 1983/4 Katia Ricciarelli (Elisabeth), Lucia Valentini Terrani (Eboli), Plácido Domingo (Carlos), Leo Nucci (Rodrigue), Ruggero Raimondi (Philippe II), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Le Grand Inquisiteur), Nikita Storojew (Un Moine), Ann Murray (Thibault), Tibère Raffalli (Le Compte de Lerme), Antonio Savastano (Un Hérault Royal) & Arleen Auger (Un Voix d'en haut) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Falstaff studio recording, 2001 Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Thomas Hampson (Ford), Adrianne Pieczonka (Alice Ford), Danill Shtoda (Fenton), Dorothea Röschmann (Nannetta), Larissa Diadkova (Mistress Quickly), Stella Doufexis (Meg Page), Anthony Mee (Bardolfo), Enrico Facini (Dr Cajus) & Anatoly Kotcherga (Pistola) Berliner Philharmoniker & Rundfunkchor Berlin Macbeth live recording, 1975 Piero Cappuccilli (Macbeth), Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Banco), Plácido Domingo (Macduff), Stefania Malagú (Lady in Waiting), Antonio Savastano (Malcolm), Carlo Zardo (Medico), Giovanni Foiani (Servo di Macbeth), Alfredo Mariotti (Sicario) & Sergio Fontana (Araldo) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Simon Boccanegra studio recording, 1977 Piero Cappuccilli (Boccanegra), Mirella Freni (Amelia/Maria), José van Dam (Paolo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Jacopo Fiesco), José Carreras (Gabriele), Giovanni Foiani (Pietro) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala |
Claudio Abbado’s Verdi recordings with La Scala, Milan have gained iconic status in the course of time. Here, along with a magnificent Falstaff – with Bryn Terfel in the title-role and the Berliner Philharmoniker – they are presented complete in a single box for the first time. Full synopses in English, German and French included. | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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José Carreras (Riccardo), Montserrat Caballé (Amelia), Ingvar Wixell (Renato), Patricia Payne (Ulrica), Sona Ghazarian (Oscar), Jonathan Summers (Silvano), Robert Lloyd (Samuele), Gwynne Howell (Tom), Robin Leggate (Un Giudice) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis “Colin Davis's Verdi is always a slow burn, but when it catches fire it blazes. The Act III finale here has rarely been bettered. Carreras and Caballe are at the top of their game.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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