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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Verdi: La Battaglia di Legnano
Verdi: | La Battaglia di Legnano Antonietta Stella (Lida), Franco Corelli (Arrigo), Marco Stefanoni (Federico Barbarossa), Ettore Bastianini (Rolando), Silvio Maionica (Primo console di Milano), Agostino Ferrin (Secondo console di Milano), Virgilio Carbonari (Marcovaldo), Aurora Cattelani (Imelda), Rinaldo Pelizzoni (Un araldo) Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gianandrea Gavazzeni La Forza del Destino (highlights) Recorded on 27th November 1956 Franco Corelli (Alvaro), Gian Giacomo Guelfi (Carlo) Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Arturo Basile |
This performance was recorded in La Scala, Milan on 7th December 1961. The bonus is Corelli and Gian Giacomo Guelfi in La Forza del Destino with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai, conducted by Arturo Basile, recorded in 1956. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Verdi: La forza del destino (abridged)
Although this 1954 recording of La forza del destino is not without flaws, Callas casts her Donna Leonora in the grand manner and her breath spans are of a truly notable length. She makes us conscious of every section of Leonora’s music, setting off the first scene in Act I with fitting simplicity. In the Act III duet with Padre Guardiano, Piu tranquilla, Callus shows her just rendition of note values; each of them is sung as Verdi specifies, contained within a perfect legato and yet she injects the subtlest rubato so giving it life. Under Serafin’s inspired direction she sings the two famous arias, Madre, pietosa vergine and Pace, pace mio Dio, with appropriate grandeur, on a tragic scale, underlining Verdi’s indications ‘come un lamento’ and ‘con dolore.’ “Callas largely overcame developing vocal problems to give this blazing Leonora, with Tucker at his most ardent and Serafin's sturdy support.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 ***** “Mark Obert-Thorn's newest transfer is splendid, beautifully smooth and clean, seemingly even fresher than the full-priced original. But what makes this Naxos set indispensable is the coupling, a generous set of highlights from a vintage set of the opera with Zinka Milanov” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | (also available to download from $12.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Mirella Freni: The Opera Singer
Bellini: | Son geloso del zefiro errante (from La Sonnambula) Nicolai Gedda (Elvino) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Edward Downes O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave...Vien, diletto (from I Puritani) Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Franco Ferraris | Bizet: | Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante (from Carmen) Me voilà seule…Comme autrefois (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Antonino Votto | Charpentier, G: | Depuis le jour (from Louise) Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Franco Ferraris | Cilea: | Ecco: respiro appena. Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur) Poveri fiori (from Adriana Lecouvreur) Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Antonino Votto | Donizetti: | Don Pasquale (excerpts) Sesto Bruscantini (Pasquale), Gösta Winbergh (Ernesto) Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti L'elisir d'amore (highlights) Nicolai Gedda (Nemorino) Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Ah, talor del tuo pensiero... Verranno a te sull'aure (from Lucia di Lammermoor) Nicolai Gedda (Edgardo) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Edward Downes | Gounod: | Roméo et Juliette (highlights) Michèle Vilma (Gertrude), Franco Corelli (Romeo) Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Alain Lombard Il était un roi de Thule... Ah! je ris (from Faust) Paris Opéra Orchestra, Georges Prêtre | Mascagni: | L'Amico Fritz: excerpts Luciano Pavarotti (Fritz) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Gianandrea Gavazzini Ah, il suo nome… Flammen perdonami (from Lodoletta) Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Antonino Votto | Mozart: | La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni) Nicolai Ghiaurov (Giovanni) Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (from Don Giovanni) Vedrai, carino (from Don Giovanni) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer E Susanna non vien! … Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro) Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Franco Ferraris | Puccini: | Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) Donde lieta usci (from La Bohème) Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Thomas Schippers Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly) Tu? Tu? Piccolo iddio (from Madama Butterfly) Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiano,, Milano Leone Magiera O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiano, Milano, Leone Magiera Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine) Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiano, Milano, Leone Magiera Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) In quelle trine morbide (from Manon Lescaut) Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiano, Milano Leone Magiera Signore, ascolta! (from Turandot) Tu che di gel sei cinta (from Turandot) Orchestra Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Alain Lombard | Verdi: | Otello (excerpts) Jon Vickers (Otello), Stefania Malagu (Emilia) Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Franco Ferraris La Forza del Destino (highlights) Placido Domingo (Alvaro), Francesca Garbi (Curra) Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Riccardo Muti Don Carlo (excerpts) José Carreras (Carlo) Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan Aida (excerpts) José Carreras (Radamès), Marilyn Horne (Amneris), Piero Cappuccilli (Amonasro), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis) Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan |
Like Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni was also born in 1935 and was a native of Modena. She began singing at a very early age. She was soon heard by Gigli, who advised her to take up serious vocal studies and in 1955 she made her début at Modena as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen. The association of Mirella Freni and EMI has been a long and fruitful one and some of her most notable recordings appear on the label. This 4-CD set includes examples of some of her most successful roles, including four excerpts from Mascagni's L'amico Fritz with Pavarotti and some material new to CD. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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