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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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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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Annette Dasch – Soprano – “Venez, venez, haine implacable” from Gluck’s opera “Armide”.

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Véronique Gens – “Enfin, il est en ma puissance” – “Armide” – Ch. W. Gluck. “Armide” is an enigma in the works of Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787). Of all his operatic successes, Gluck singled out “Armide” as the culmination of his career, stating in a 1776 letter to his French librettist François-Louis Gand LeBland […]

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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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Maureen Forrester & Teresa Stich-Randall – “Vieni!” – “Orfeo ed Euridice” – Ch. W. Gluck. Wiener Staatsoper Orchester – M.° Charles Mackerras Conductor.

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Teresa Stich-Randall as Euridice – “Che fiero momento” Recitarive and Aria of Euridice – “Orfeo ed Euridice” – Ch. W. Gluck. Wiener Staatsoper Orchester – M.° Charles Mackerras Conductor. Maybe the best Gluck’s Euridice.

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“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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Maria Callas, New York, XII.02.1923 (?) – Paris, IX.16.1977. IN MEMORIAM.

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Julia Fischer & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – “L’Autunno” – A. Vivaldi.