Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei

Opera Rara: ORC30

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Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei

Label:

Opera Rara

Catalogue No:

ORC30

Discs:

3

Release date:

10th Sept 2005

Barcode:

0792938003023

Length:

3 hours 27 minutes

Medium:

CD (download also available)
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Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei


Majella Cullagh (Pia), Bruce Ford (Ghino degli Armieri), Roberto Servile (Nello della Pietra), Manuela Custer (Rodrigo), Mirco Palazzi (Piero), Mark Wilde (Ubaldo), Patrizia Bicciré (Bice), Marco Vinco (Lamberto), Christopher Turner (Un carceriere)

Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry

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After a concert performance given at the Royal Festival Hall in October 2004 the Guardian Critic Tim Ashley had this to say: "Majella Cullagh is technically staggering, pushing herself to her expressive limits in order to convey Pia’s emotional and moral agony."

Gaetano Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei

playPrelude

playPart I Scene 1: Scene: Ancor del fosco notturno velo (Chorus 1, Chorus 2) - Scene 2: Di', quel messaggio (Ubaldo, Chorus 1, Chorus 2)

playPart I Scene 3: Cavatina: Signor, giungi opportuno (Ubaldo, Ghino)

playPart I Scene 3: Cavatina: Non puo dirti la parola (Ghino) - Scene 4: Ebben? (Ghino, Bice, Ubaldo)

playPart I Scene 4: Cavaletta: Mi volesti sventurato? (Ghino, Ubaldo) - Scene 5: Surce la Pia? (Lamberto, Bice)

playPart I Scene 6: Qui posa il fianco (Bice, Maidens)

playPart I Scene 6: Scene: A voi son grata (Pia, Bice)

playPart I Scene 6: Cavatina: O tu che desti il fulmine (Pia, Bice, Maidens)

playPart I Scene 7: Scene: Pia… Lamberto… (Lamberto, Pia, Maidens)

playPart I Scene 7: Cabaletta: Di pura gioja in estasi (Pia, Bice, Lamberto, Maidens)

playPart I Scene 8: Scene: Giurai svenarlo (Nello) - Scene 9: Nello? (Ghino, Nello)

playPart I Scene 9: Duet: Parea celeste spirito (Nello, Ghino)

playPart I Scene 9: Cabaletta: Del ciel che non punisce (Nello, Ghino)

playPart I Scene 10: Scene: In questa de' viventi orrida tomba (Rodrigo)

playPart I Scene 10: Cavatina: Mille volte sul campo d'onor (Rodrigo) - Scene 11: Omai l'istante e presso (Prison Guard, Rodrigo)

playPart I Scene 11: Cabaletta: L'astro che regge i miei destini (Rodrigo)

playPart I Scene 12: Dell'inatteso tuo venir la nouva (Bice, Ghino, Nello) - Scene 13: Pia… Signor… (Nello, Pia, Ghino)

playPart I Scene 13: Trio: Ogni squardo, ogni accento (Nello, Pia, Ghino)

playPart I Scene 14: Scene: Ah! signora… (Lamberto, Pia) - Scene 15: Pia… (Rodrigo, Pia, Lamberto)

playPart I Scene 15: Duet: Fra queste braccia (Pia, Rodrigo)

playPart I Scene 16: Scene: L'uscio dischiudi (Nello, Lamberto, Rodrigo, Pia) - Scene 17: Ch'io sveni entrambi… (Nello, Pia, Ghino, Nello, Lamberto) - Scene 18: Fuggi quel vil!… (Nello, Ghino, Bice…)

playPart I Scene 18: Stretta: Ah! quell'ira bollente per poco raffrena… (Ghino, Ubaldo, Pia, Bice, Handmaidens, Retainers)

playPart II Scene 1: Cinto di rosse nubi (Lamberto, Rodrigo, Chorus)

playPart II Scene 1: Ahi! si barbara minaccia (Rogdrigo, Lamberto) - Scene 2: Signor … (Rodrigo, Lamberto, Followers)

playPart II Scene 2: Cabaletta: A me stesso un Dio mi rende… (Rodrigo, Followers)

playPart II Scene 3: Tu Ghino alle Maremme! (Ubaldo, Ghino) - Scene 4: Chi veggio! (Pia, Ghino)

playPart II Scene 4: Per sempre dai viventi (Ghino, Pia)

playPart II Scene 4: Cabaletta: Puo la mia fiamma spegnersi (Ghino, Pia)

playPart II Scene 5: Scene: Divampera tremenda oggi la guerra (Ubaldo)

playPart II Scene 6: Il mugghiar di si fera procella (All)

playPart II Scene 6: Divo spirto, il cui sguardo penetra (All)

playPart II Scene 6: Un calpesito di rapidi cavalli (Piero) - Scene 7: O Piero… Io non traveggo! Nello! Sconfitte dal nemico brando (Nello, Piero)

playPart II Scene 7: Aria: Lei perduta, in core ascondo Velenoso un dardo acuto… (Nello)

playPart II Scene 7: Scene: Fragor di spade! (Piero, Nello) - Scene 8: Oh, ciel! (Nello, Piero, Ghino, The Solitaries)

playPart II Scene 8: Cabaletta: Ciel pietoso, un cor ti parla (Nello, Piero, The Solitaries)

playPart II Scene 9: A questo nappo bevera tra poco (Ubaldo)

playPart II Scene 9: Scene: Eterno Dio! Respiro… (Pia, Ubaldo)

playPart II Scene 9: Aria: Sposo, ah! tronca ogni dimora… (Pia) - Scene 10: Pia… (Nello, Pia, Ubaldo, Rodrigo, Chorus)

playPart II Cabaletta: Ah! Di Pia… che muore… e geme… (Rodrigo, Pia, Nello, Chorus)

playPart I Scene 12: Dell'inatteso tuo venir la nouva (Bice, Ghino, Nello) - Scene 13: Pia… Signor… (Nello, Pia, Ghino) (Appendix)

playPart I Scene 13: Trio: Ogni sguardo, ogni accento (Nello, Pia, Ghino) (Appendix)

playPart I Scene 14: Scene: Ah! signora… ( Lamberto, Pia) - Scene 15: Pia… (Rodrigo, Pia, Lamberto) (Appendix)

playPart I Scene 15: Duet: Fra queste braccia (Pia, Rodrigo) (Appendix)

playPart I Scene 16: Scene: L'uscio dischiudi (Nello, Lamberto, Rodrigo, Pia) - Scene 17: Ch'io sveni entrambi… (Nello, Pia, Ghino, Nello, Lamberto) - Scene 18: Fuggi quel vil!… (Nello, Ghino…) (Appendix)

playPart I Scene 18: Stretta: Ah! quell'ira bollente per poco raffrena… Ah! m'odi… raffrena quell'odio feroce (Ghino, Ubaldo, Pia, Bice, Handmaidens, Retainers) (Appendix)

playPart II Scene 10: Scene: Di Ghino il cenno udiste? (Ubaldo, Men-at-Arms) (Appendix)

playPart II Scene 11: Scene: Tutto e silenzio! (Pia) - Scene 12: Ah, signora… (Lamberto, Pia) - Scene 13: Pia… (Rodrigo, Pia, Lamberto) (Appendix)

playPart II Scene 13: Duet: Fra queste braccia (Pia, Rodrigo) (Appendix)

playPart II Scene 14: Scene: L'uscio dischiudi, o perfida! (Nello, Lamberto, Rodrigo, Pia) - Scene 15: Ch'io sveni (Nello, Pia, Lamberto, Ghino) - Scene 16: Fuggi quel vil!…(Ubaldo, Nello…) (Appendix)

playPart II Scene 16: Quartet: Ah! come congiungere il cielo potea (Nello, Ghino, Pia, Bice, Handmaidens) - Scene 17: Quel codardo ne deluse!… (Ubaldo, Nello, Ghino, Pia) (Appendix)

playPart II Scene 17: Stretta: L'empia cingete d'aspre ritorte (Nello, Pia, Ghino, Ubaldo, Bice, Men-at-Arms, Handmaidens) (Appendix)

playPart I: Duet: Parea celeste spirito (Nello, Ghino) (Appendix)

playPart I: Del ciel che non punisce (Nello, Ghino) (Appendix)

playPart I Scene 14: L'uscio dischiudi (Nello, Lamberto, Rodrigo, Pia) - Scene 15: Ch'io sveni entrambi… (Nello, Pia, Ghino, Nello, Lamberto) - Scene 16: Fuggi quel vil!… (Nello, Ghino, Bice…) (Appendix)

playPart I Scene 16: Ahime, quell'anelito il core mi gela (Ghino, Nello, Pia, Bice, Handmaidens) (Appendix)

playPart II: Sciolta e la tregua (Chorus of Soldiers) (Appendix)

playPart III Scene 1: A questo nappo bevera tra poco (Ubaldo) (Appendix)

playPart III Scene 1: Eterno Dio! Respiro… (Pia) (Appendix)

playPart III Scene 1: Aria: Sposo, ah! tronca ogni dimora… (Pia, Ubaldo, Nello) - Scene 2: Sposa mia! (Pia, Nello, Rodrigo, Chorus) (Appendix)

playPart III Scene 2: Rondo: No: l'immenso mio contento non s'esprime con l'accento (Pia, Chorus) (Appendix)

BBC Music Magazine

December 2005

****

“Another gloriously improbable Donizetti opera in which everyone is impossibly innocent, frightfully wicked or desperately penitent… sometimes all three! …it's Manuela Custer as Rodrigo, Pia's brother and the unwitting agent of her downfall, who takes the highest singing honours - a lyric mezzo who makes it all sound so easy and so elegant. David Parry conducts the LPO with his customary attention to detail. He wears this music like a handmade suit.”

Gramophone Magazine

December 2005

“…an opera which grows rather than diminishes with a deepening acquaintance. …if you want to learn about Pia de' Tolomei while enjoying the sound, Opera Rara's is the set to go for.”

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