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Maria Callas – “O Dei! Propiziate il destino… La Calma rinascea, ma, in fondo al mio Cor” Opening Scene (sung in ItalianM) – Italian version by Lorenzo da Ponte of “Iphigénie en Tauride” (“Ifigenia in Tauride”) – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787). LIVE at Teatro alla Scala, Milano, I – 1957 Orchestra e Coro del Teatro […]

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Annette Dasch – “Venez, venez, haine implacable” Aria of Armide – “Armide” (1777) – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 – 1787). ” ‘Armide’ is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, set to a libretto by Philippe Quinault. Gluck’s fifth production for the Parisian stage and the composer’s own favourite among his works, it was first performed […]

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Montserrat Caballé – “Le perfide Renaud me fuit” – Monologue of Armide – “Armide” (1777) – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 – 1787). LIVE at Teatro de la Zarzuela – Madrid – May 1985. M.° Manfred Ramin Conductor. The audio is better than the images.

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Anna Caterina Antonacci – “Enfin il est en ma puissance” Monologue (Recitative and Aria) of Armide – “Armide” (1777) – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 – 1787). LIVE at Teatro alla Scala – 1996 Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla La Scala M.° Riccardo Muti Conductor.

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Lawrence Brownlee – “Le Sylvain” mélodie pour chant et piano from “Péchés de Vieillesse” volume III “Morceaux réservées” mélodie n.° 9 – Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868). Beautiful tenor voice, antique style, with an intense vibrato, tuned and technically almost perfect, Lawrence Brownlee (born 1972) is an Afro-American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel […]

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Karina Gauvin – “Enfin il est en ma puissance … Ah ! Si la liberté me doit être ravie” Recitative and Aria of Armide – “Armide” (1777) II Act – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 – 1787). LIVE in Amsterdam at the Nederlandse Opera – 2013 Netherlands Chamber Orchestra M.° Ivor Bolton Conductor.

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Rockwell Blake – “Plus j’observe ces lieux” – “Armide” (1777) – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 – 1787). Orchestre Philarmonique de Montecarlo M.° Patrick Fournillier Conductor. EMI CD Album “Rockwell Blake – Airs d’ Opéra français” – 1995

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Per aprire questa breve nota sulle registrazioni scaligere della Callas, in occasione di due nuove pubblicazioni, chi scrive si sente in dovere di riportare le parole d’Elvio Giudici, a proposito dell’interpretazione della cantante – attrice, le quali sono il più bell’omaggio che le si potesse fare. Afferma, infatti, Giudici, a proposito delle recite dell’Ifigenia in […]

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Wilhelm Furtwängler – “Alceste” (1767) – Ouverture – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 – 1787). Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker Wien 08.III.1954.

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Shirley Verrett – “Ah! Malgré moi” Aria of Alceste – Alceste” French version (1776) – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 – 1787). LIVE at Opera Nationale de Paris – Rehearsal – 1985 (or, maybe, 1986) Orchestre de l’ Opéra National de Paris M.° Michael Schonwandt Conductor Pier Luigi Pizzi Director. “Ah! Malgré moi, mon faible coeur […]