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Donizetti: Anna Bolena

Nicolai Ghiaurov (Enrico VIII), Elena Souliotis (Anna Bolena), Marilyn Horne (Giovanna Seymour), John Alexander (Lord Riccardo Percy), Janet Coster (Smeton), Stafford Dean (Rochefort), Piero de Palma (Harvey)

Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Opernorchester, Silvio Varviso

Release Date: 8th Jun 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4828779
Label: Eloquence
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

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Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano), Elena Souliotis (soprano), Stafford Dean (bass), Piero de Palma (tenor), Janet Coster (mezzo-soprano), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), John Alexander (tenor), John Aler (tenor)
Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Opernorchester
Silvio Varviso
Recorded: 1968-09-01
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Sinfonia (Overture)

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Nè venne il Re?

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Ella di me, sollecita

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Si taciturna e mesta

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Deh! non voler costringere

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Come, innocente giovane

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Non v'ha sguardo cui sia dato

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Oh! qual parlar fu il sono!

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Tutta in voi la luce mia

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Ah! qual sia cercar non oso

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Chi veggo?

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Da quel dì che, lei perduta

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Ah! così nel dì ridenti

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Desta sì tosto

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Io sentii sulla mia mano

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Or che reso ai patrii lidi

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Questo dì per noi spuntato

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E'sgombro il loco

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Ah! parea che per incanto

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Basta, basta, trop'oltre vai

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S'ei t'abborre, io t'amo ancora

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Ah! per pietà del mio spavento

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Alcun potria ascolarti

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Tace ognuno

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In separato carcere

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Oh! dove mal ne andarono

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Dio, che mi vedi in core

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Al par del mio

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Va, infelice

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Ebben? Dinanzi ai giudici

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Scostatevi ... il Re giunge

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Ambo morrete, o perfidi

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Al Consiglio sien tratti

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Sposa a Percy

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Per questa fiamma indomita

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Stolta! Non sai ...

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Ah! pensate che rivolti

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Tu pur dannato a morte

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Vivi tu, te ne scongiuro

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Nel veder la tua costanza

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Chi può vederla a ciglio asciutto

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Piangete voi?

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Al dolce guidami

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Qual mesto suon?

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Cielo, a'miei lunghi spasimi

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Coppia iniqua, l'estrema vendetta

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At a time when Donizetti was represented on the world’s stages by little more than Lucia di Lammermoor, and the recording industry was only beginning to capitalise on public hunger for the sublime art of bel canto, this complete recording of the composer’s first great international success was welcomed as a landmark in the history of the opera. It had been Maria Callas who gave the piece a triumphant revival at La Scala in 1957, but in a truncated edition which did not do full justice to the full originality of Donizetti’s voice as he emerged from the imposing example of Bellini. This was the first recording anywhere near complete, doing full justice to the noble scale and scope of the drama and the force and richness of Donizetti’s imagination.

The heroine for this Vienna-made Decca recording from 1970 was the Greek soprano Elena Souliotis. ‘Everything I cherish in song and singing are embodied in her voice and her musical instincts,’ remarked the influential editor of Opera magazine, Harold Rosenthal. Her recording career was like a firework, as spectacular as it was brief, and catalogued on ‘The Voice of Elena Souliotis’ (Decca Eloquence 4805369). Anna Bolena was recorded near the end of her career, and critical praise was lavished upon her colleagues such as the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov as Henry VIII and Marilyn Horne as ‘Giovanna Seymour’, Anna’s maid of honour.

‘An international cast of high renown, engineered with the customary subtlety and skill of [Decca’s] engineers, backed by an excellent orchestra in the knowing control of Silvio Varviso, as effecting a conductor for this work as I can think of. Marilyn Horne offers singing of the utmost succulence and plangency. Nicolai Ghiaurov could not possibly be bettered … his tone is a constant salve to the ear, a rich, resonant timbre guided by high intelligence.’ High Fidelity, December 1970

‘Marilyn Horne virtually carries the whole opera (in this recording) on her shoulders, and page after page of the score reveals her as a consummate singing-actress.’ Opera, January 1971

Donizetti: Anna Bolena

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