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Maria Callas – “Tu che le vanità” – Aria of Elisabetta di Valois – “Don Carlo” – G. Verdi – Hamburg 1959 by Luca

Maria Callas – “Tu che le vanità” – Aria of Elisabetta di Valois – “Don Carlo” – G. Verdi – Hamburg 1959. It was common practice at the time for most theatres (other than those in French-speaking communities) to perform operas in Italian, and an Italian translation of Don Carlos was prepared in the autumn […]

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Gluck’s Armide and the Creation of Supranational Opera – by Annalise Smith by Luca

Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Armide (1777) is an anomaly within the context of his eighteenth-century operatic reform. While all of Gluck’s other libretti had been written as an embodiment of the operatic reform, including his Italian works Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) and Alceste (1767) in addition to the French operas Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) and […]

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Montserrat Caballé – “Le perfide Renaud me fuit…” – “Armide” – Ch. W. Gluck by Luca

Montserrat Caballé – “Le perfide Renaud me fuit…” – “Armide” – Ch. W. Gluck. Teatro de la Zarzuela. Madrid, May 1985. Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera “Armide” (1777) is an anomaly within the context of his eighteenth-century operatic reform. While all of Gluck’s other libretti had been written as an embodiment of the operatic reform, including […]

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Maria Callas – “J’ai perdu mon Eurydice” – “Orphée et Eurydice” – Christoph Willibald Gluck by Luca

“Orfeo ed Euridice” (French version: “Orphée et Eurydice”; English translation: “Orpheus and Eurydice”) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the “azione teatrale”, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing. […]

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