Donizetti: Il Duca d'Alba |
This page lists all recordings of Il Duca d'Alba, by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Live Spoleto (11.06.1959)
Tosini, Cioni & Quilico Thomas Schippers | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Inva Mula (soprano), Arturo Chacón-Cruz (tenor), Franck Ferrari (baritone), Mauro Corna (bass), Francesco Ellero d’Artegna (bass), Nikola Todorovitch (tenor) & Karlis Rutentals (tenor) Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon & Choeur de la Radio Lettone, Enrique Mazzola A 2CD + bonus DVD, recorded live – July 16th 2007 at the Opéra Berlioz-Le Corum, Montpellier. Il duca d’Alba proved to be an inordinately long score, indulging in every kind of audience rousing device, deafening choruses, overwhelming cabalette replete with reprise after reprise. First performed in Rome in the 12th March 1882 to overflowing houses, seat prices doubling and watched by the Queen of Italy. Revivals followed in quick succession at Naples, Bergamo, Turin, Barcelona, Malta and then it vanished completely! No one seems even to have remembered its existence, until one Fernando Previtali discovered the battered full score used by the conductor at that momentous first performance, on a market stall in Rome in the 1950’s. “As the vengeful Amelia, Inva Mula rises to the rabble-rousing Act 1 cabalette, as well as the scene in which she attempts to assassinate the Duke. Arturo Chacóon-Cruz gives considerable emotion to "Angelo casto e bel". Enrique Mazzola conducts the Radio France forces in a convincingly vigorous performance. For those devoted to Donizetti's operas, this should be a pleasant surprise.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2009 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Giangiacomo Guelfi, Amedeo Berdini, Caterina Mancini, Dario Caselli, Aldo Bertocci Fernando Previtali Live recording, Rome, 1951 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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