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June Anderson – “D’Amore al dolce impero” – “Armida” (1817) – Gioacchino Rossini – LIVE in concert at “Rossini Opera Festival” 1986. Orchestra da Camera “Per Musica” conducted by M.° Julian Reynolds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZtAoap9Pow

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June Anderson & Rockwell Blake – “Amor… Possente nome!.. Vacilla a quegli accenti” Duet Armida -Rinaldo – “Armida” (1817) – Gioacchino Rossini. LIVE at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence – 1988. Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice conducted by M.° Gianfranco Masini. Choeurs The Sixteen.

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Maria Callas – “D’Amore al dolce impero” II Act – “Armida” (1817) – Gioacchino Rossini – LIVE at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – Firenze 1952. Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – M.° Tullio Serafin Conductor.

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Maria Callas – “D’Amore al dolce impero” – “Armida” (1817) – Gioacchino Rossini – LIVE “Concerti Martini & Rossi” Sanremo Casinò 1954. Conductor M.° Alfredo Simonetto. Sung in the second act of Rossini’s opera, the beautiful, but evil, sorceress Armida brings her lover, Rinaldo, into her pleasure palace after he killed his fellow comrade in […]

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No surprise, Callas was a great Armida — in the title role of Rossini’s opera in the early 1950s. As you trace the history of Tasso’s poem into the 19th century, however, you sense the beginning of its decline. Years after Rossini composed his 1817 “Armida,” he wrote to a librettist warning, “If I should […]

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Rossini’s Armida takes place Jerusalem during the Crusades. Armida, ACT I After the recent death of their beloved leader, Christian soldiers rally outside of Jerusalem where their new commander, Goffredo, speaks to them in order to lift their spirits. Goffredo’s speech is interrupted by a beautiful woman claiming to be Damascus’ rightful ruler. She begs […]

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Rockwell Blake, Peter Bronder & Peter Jeffes – “In quale aspetto imbelle” Tenor trio from the III Act of “Armida” (1817) – Gioacchino Rossini. London Symphony Orchestra Conductor M.° Maximiano Valdès Rinaldo Rockwell Blake – Ubaldo Peter Bronder – Carlo Peter Jeffes. Ambrosian Singers. From the CD “Encore: Rossini: Rockwell Blake” recorded maybe in 1989, […]

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Francesco Albanese & Maria Callas – “Vacilla a quegli accenti” Duet Rinaldo – Armida – “Armida” (1817) – Gioacchino Rossini – LIVE at “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”. The first modern staging took place at the Teatro Comunale Florence on 26 April 1952, during the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with Maria Callas and Francesco Albanese in the leading […]

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Gioachino Rossini or Gioacchino Rossini – “Armida” – Libretto of Giovanni Schmidt – “D’Amore al dolce impero” Aria of Armida – LIVE in Pesaro 2014 at Adriatic Arena – “Rossini Opera Festival”. Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. M.° Carlo Rizzi Conductor. Cast: Carmen Romeu, Dmitrij Korchak, Carlo Lepore, Antonino Siragusa. The […]

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Gioachino Rossini or Gioacchino Rossini – “Armida” – Libretto of Giovanni Schmidt – “Per me propizio è il Fato” Concertato of Armida – Rinaldo – Chorus – LIVE in Pesaro 2014 at Adriatic Arena – “Rossini Opera Festival”. Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. M.° Carlo Rizzi Conductor. Cast: Carmen Romeu, Dmitrij […]