Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Naxos: 8112031-32

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Label:

Naxos

Catalogue No:

8112031-32
(8.112031-32)

Series:

Historical
Great Opera Recordings

Discs:

2

Release date:

4th Jan 2010

Barcode:

0636943203170

Length:

2 hours 14 minutes

Medium:

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Recorded 18th-20th, 22nd and 24th-27th July, 1957, in the Teatro della Scala, Milan

Appendix: Giuseppe di Stefano sings Puccini arias

Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulio Fioravanti, Franco Calabrese, Dino Formichini & Dino Formichini

Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Tullio Serafin

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Transferred by the award-winning Mark Obert-Thorn, this 1957 recording of Manon Lescaut with Callas singing the title rôle and Di Stefano as des Grieux, was one of Callas’s last complete recordings at La Scala, Milan.

Although the strain of her recent recording of Turandot (Naxos 8111334-35) sometimes takes its toll, her command of Manon is complete.

Those pages that are rarely sung accurately by other lyric sopranos, for example ‘L’ora, o Tirsi’ from Act II, Callas sings with polish and precision, executing the triplets with perfect rhythmic command.

Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut

playAct I: Ave, sera gentile (Edmondo, Students, Girls, Des Grieux)

playAct I: Tra voi, belle (Des Grieux, Edmondo, Students)

playAct I: Ma bravo! (All)

playAct I: Descendono, vediam! (Students, Girls, Edmondo, Lescaut, Innkeeper, Des Grieux, Geronte)

playAct I: Cortese damigella (Des Grieux, Manon)

playAct I: Donna non vidi mai (Des Grieux)

playAct I: La tua ventura, ci rassicura (Edmondo, Students, Girls, Geronte, Lescaut)

playAct I: Un asso! Un fante (Townspeople, Students, Lescaut, Geronte, Innkeeper, Edmondo)

playAct I: La tua Proserpina di resisterti (Edmondo, Des Grieux)

playAct I: Vedete? Io son fedele alla parola mia (Manon, Des Grieux)

playAct I: Non c'e piu vino? (Lescaut, Des Grieux, Manon, Edmondo)

playAct I: Di sedur la sorellina e il momento! (Geronte, Innkeeper, Edmondo, Lescaut, Students)

playAct II: Dispettosetto questo riccio! (Manon, Lescaut)

playAct II: Sei splendida e lucente! (Lescaut, Manon)

playAct II: In quelle trine morbide (Manon)

playAct II: Poiche tu voi saper … (Lescaut, Manon)

playAct II: Che ceffi son costor? (Lescaut, Manon, Madrigal Singer, Singers)

playAct II: Vi prego, signorina (Dancing Master, Geronte, Manon, Gentleman, Abbes)

playAct II: L'ora, o Tirsi (Manon, Gentleman, Abbes, Geronte)

playAct II: Oh, saro la piu bella! (Manon, Des Grieux)

playAct II: Ah! … Affe, madamigella (Manon, Geronte, Des Grieux)

playAct II: Ah, Manon, mi tradisce (Des Grieux, Manon)

playAct II: Lescaut! Tu qui? (Des Grieux, Manon, Lescaut, Sergeant, Geronte)

playAct II: Intermezzo

playAct III: Ansia eternal, crudel! (Des Grieux, Lescaut)

playAct III: Manon! Des Grieux! (Des Grieux, Manon, Lescaut)

playAct III: E Kate rispose al Re (Lamplighter, Des Grieux, Manon)

playAct III: All'armi! (Voices, Lescaut, Des Grieux, Manon, Townspeople, Sergeant, Captain)

playAct III: Rosetta! (Sergeant, Townspeople, Lescaut, Manon, Des Grieux)

playAct III: Presto! In fila! Marciate! … No! Pazzo son! Guardate! (Sergeant, Des Grieux, Townspeople, Captain)

playAct IV: Tutta su me ti posa (Des Grieux, Manon)

playAct IV: Vedi, son io che piango (Des Grieux, Manon)

playAct IV: E nulla! Nulla! (Des Grieux, Manon)

playAct IV: Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Manon)

playAct IV: Fra le tue braccia, amore (Manon, Des Grieux)

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

playTosca, Act I: Recondita armonia

Giacomo Puccini: La Fanciulla del west

playLa Fanciulla del West, Act III: Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano

Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi

playGianni Schicchi: Avete torto … Firenze e come un albero fiorito

Giacomo Puccini: Turandot

playAct I: Non piangere, Liu!

playAct III: Nessun dorma!

Gramophone Magazine

July 2010

“Callas thinks herself well into what becomes, to begin with, a more serious, calculating Manon - and a very accurate Manon, too. Then, dying in the wilderness in Act 4, she produces a performance so harrowing that it should surely claim a prime spot on any fantasy best-of-Callas single disc.”

Penguin Guide

2010 edition

***

“It is typical of Callas that she turns the final scene into the most compelling part of the opera. Serafin, who could be a lethargic recording conductor, is here electrifying, and Di Stefano too is inspired to one of his finest complete opera recordings.”

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