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Skladatel: GIORDANO, Umberto Menotti Maria ((1867-1948)) |
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Marina (comp. 1888; NP)
Malavita (21.2.1892 Teatro Argentina, Rome)
Regina Diaz (5.3.1894 Teatro Mercadante, Naples)
Andrea Chénier (28.3.1896 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
Fedora (17.11.1898 Teatro Lirico, Milan)
Il Voto [rev of Malavita] (6.9.1902 Teatro Bellini, Naples)
Siberia (19.12.1903 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
Marcella (9.11.1907 Teatro Lirico, Milan)
Mese Mariano (17.3.1910 Teatro Massimo, Palermo)
Madame Sans Gêne (25.1.1915 Metropolitan Opera, New York)
Giove a Pompei (6.7.1921 Teatro La Pariola, Rome)
La Cena delle Beffe (20.12.1924 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
Il Rè (12.1.1929 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
Jeho/jej ivot: Umberto Giordano was trained as a musician in Naples and achieved his first great success in Milan in 1896 with the opera Andrea Chenier. His last completed opera, Il rè, was staged in Milan in 1929. In style his music bears some resemblance to that of Puccini or, still more, to that of Leoncavallo.
Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) was a 22-year-old student at the Royal College of Music in Naples. His opera, Marina, didn't win a prize, but it did place sixth -- earning him a stipend of 300 lire a month from Sonzogno and a contract for a full-length opera.
Giordano's first full-length opera, Mala vita (1892), was a moderate success. His second, Regina Diaz (1894), failed. Frustrated, Sonzogno (who was still paying Giordano's salary) introduced the young composer to librettist Luigi Illica (1857-1919).
Illica had already discussed the idea for an opera about the French poet André Chénier with Baron Alberto Franchetti, who ceded it to Giordano. The libretto was finished in November of 1894, and Giordano began composing early the next year in Milan, in a rented ground-floor storage room for tombstones. He also wooed and married Olga Spatz-Wurms, whose family owned the hotel which Verdi frequented during his last years, allowing Giordano to meet the elder composer and benefit from his advice.
Upon its submission to Sonzogno in the fall of 1895, Andrea Chénier was deemed "worthless" by one senior editorial advisor, and was accepted hesitantly only after Mascagni personally interceded on Giordano's behalf. The opera opened at La Scala on March 28, 1896 and was an instant success, catapulting Giordano to the forefront of the giovane scuola ("young school"), along with Mascagni, Puccini and Leoncavallo.
Written in the verismo ("realistic") style -- pioneered by Mascagni's prize-winner of 1889, Cavalleria rusticana -- Andrea Chénier depicts the passions of ordinary people, and the libretto was influenced by the poetry of the real André Chénier.
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ID: BRV9902 Disk: 14 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Voices and Orchestra Franco Corelli (tenor)
Donizetti:
Poliuto
Milan, 7th December 1960
Franco Corelli (Poliuto), Maria Callas (Paolina), Ettore Bastiani (Severo)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
Giordano, U:
Andrea Chénier
Vienna, 26th June 1960
Franco Corelli (Chenier), Renata Tebaldi (Maddalena), Ettore Bastianini (Carlo)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Lovro von Matacic
Leoncavallo:
I Pagliacci
Milan, 26th September 1954
Franco Corelli (Canio), Tito Gobbi (Tonio), Mafalda Micheluzzi (Nedda)
RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Alfredo Simonetto
Meyerbeer:
Les Huguenots
Milan, 7th June 1962 (Sung in Italian)
Franco Corelli (Raoul), Joan Sutherland (Margarita), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Marcello), Giulietta Simionato (Valentina)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Puccini:
Tosca
London, 1st July 1957
Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi), Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Scarpia)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Alexander Gibson
Turandot
Milan, 7th December 1964
Franco Corelli (Calaf), Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Galina Vishnevskaya (Liu), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Verdi:
Il Trovatore
Salzburg, 31st July 1962
Franco Corelli (Manrico), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Ettore Bastianini (Luna), Giulietta Simionato (Azucena)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan |
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ID: BRV9906 Disk: 14 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Legendary Voices Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Boito:
Mefistofele
25th January 1966
Renata Tebaldi (Margherita/Helen of Troy), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Mefistofele), Carlo Bergonzi (Faust)
RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Lamberto Gardelli
Catalani:
La Wally
Rome, 20th October 1960
Renata Tebaldi (Wally), Giacinto Prandelli (Hagenbach), Dino Dondi (Gellner)
RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Rome, Arturo Basile
Giordano, U:
Fedora
Naples, 14th December 1961
Renata Tebaldi (Fedora), Giuseppe di Stefano (Loris), Mario Sereni (De Siriex)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Arturo Basile
Puccini:
Tosca
Milan, 12th December 1959
Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
La fanciulla del West
Rome, 8th July 1961
Renata Tebaldi (Minnie), Daniele Barioni (Dick Johnson), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Rance), Piero de Palma (Nick)
RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Rome, Arturo Basile
Verdi:
La Traviata
Milan, 28th May 1952
Renata Tebaldi (Violetta), Giacinto Prandelli (Alfredo), Gino Orlandini (Germont), Lilliana Pellegrino (Flora)
RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Carlo Maria Giulini
Giovanna d'Arco
Milan, 26th March 1951
Renata Tebaldi (Giovanna), Carlo Bergonzi (Carlo), Rolando Panerai (Giacomo)
RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Alfredo Simonetto |
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ID: CDA1693-2 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Margareta Dellefors - Limelight and Limestone - A singing Journey
| Rangström - Five songs from The choosen one | Wagner - Wesendoncklieder |Giordano - Andrea Chenier - La Mamma morta |Verdi - La Forza del Destino - Pace, pace mio Dio! |Puccini - Tosca - Vissi d'arte |Hallström - The bride of the mountain king |Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos - Ein schönes war..
Ture Rangström (1884-1947)
Five songs from The choosen one
- I. Festive preparations
- III. The sleep of five senses
- IV. About gifts of sacrifice
- VI. Rower's song
- IX. Sunrise
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Wesendoncklieder
- I. Der Engel
- II. Stehe still!
- III. Im Treibhaus
- IV. Schmerzen
- V. Träume
Umberto Giordano (1867-1948)
Andrea Chenier - La Mamma morta
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La Forza del Destino - Pace, pace mio Dio!
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Tosca - Vissi d'arte
Ivar Hallström (1826-1901)
The bride of the mountain king
- The choir of the dwarfs and the Mountain Queen aria
- Duetta between the mountain Queen and Kark
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Ariadne auf Naxos - Ein schönes war hiess Theseus Ariadne
Torsten Sörenson (1902-1992)
Canticum Annae |
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ID: E109 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Opera (Live Historical Recording, 1967-1978) |
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ID: GD190 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Opera CollectionPodkolekce: Opera Emil Ivanov has long become a famous name among the world tenor elite. He began his career in the Sofia National Opera to join soon after that the cast of the Vienna Staatsoper, on whose bill he is currently present. Vienna, on its part, was his launching board to the greatest opera stages and festivals in Europe and the United States, where he sang many times at the Metropolitan. Emil Ivanov enchants the audience with his sound, voluminous tenor, with his brilliant pitches and beautiful timbre. He is an artist of varied repertoire including mainly parts of 19th century operas by Verdi, Meyerbeer, Massenet, Bizet. Most outstanding among his performances are these from "veristic" works by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano. For this CD the singer has chosen mainly arias which express in the best manner his musical, vocal and emotional nature.
Svetoslav Obretenov Bulgarian National Philharmonic Choir
Sofia Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Linev, conductor |
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ID: RCD16016 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Ruská pěvecká školaPodkolekce: Voice, Choir and Orchestra Accompanied by the "Rustavi" Male Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble and the
ensemble of soloists of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the USSR,
O. Taktakishvili, conductor
Recorded on May 4, 1974 at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire.. |
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ID: RRC1125 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Vocal and Opera CollectionPodkolekce: Opera "Orchestra Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome /Alberto Erede (1951) **L'Orchestre de la SuisseRomande / Alberto Erede (1949) ***Orchestra of La Scala, Milan /Victor De Sabata (1949-Live) |
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ID: RRC1195 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Opera CollectionPodkolekce: Opera Jussi BjörlingMaria CallasRenata TebaldiVictoria de los AngelesRobert MerrillGiuseppe di Stefano |
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