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“La cenerentola” (1817) – ” Siete voi? Voi Prence siete? … Questo è un nodo avviluppato” Concertato II Act – Gioacchino Rossini . Film version 1981. Orchestra Teatro alla Scala M.° Claudio Abbado Conductor Jean Pierre-Ponnelle Set and costume design. Cast: Frederica von Stade (Cenerentola) Claudio Desderi (Dandini) Francisco Araiza (Don Ramiro) Paolo Montarsolo (Don […]

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Lucia Valentini Terrani – “Signor, perdono per l’incertezza … Nacqui all’affanno e al pianto … Non più mesta accanto al fuoco” Recitative, Aria and Cabaletta of Angelina – “La cenerentola” (1817) – Gioacchino Rossini. LIVE at Royal Covent Garden – 1976. Royal Covent Garden Orchestra & Chorus M.° Claudio Abbado Conductor Cast: Angelina: Lucia Valentini […]

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Maria Callas – “Nacqui all`affanno e al pianto … Non più mesta accanto al fuoco”” – “La cenerentola” (1817) by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868). LIVE in concert. Philharmonia Orchestra M.° Georges Prêtre Conductor London, Royal Festival Hall – 27.II.1962. GREAT! In 1962, tells the “legend”, Maria Callas wasn’t at her best, but here is she simply […]

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“Legend” Maria Callas holds an assured place in the pantheon of great artists, but details concerning the components of her greatness are often mired in platitudes that conflate biography, public persona, and myth with her actual approach to opera. Moreover, Callas worked in a milieu that itself has always been mercurial and difficult to evaluate. […]

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Maria Callas – “Non si dà follia maggiore” – “Il Turco in Italia” (1814) – Gioacchino Rossini. LIVE At Teatro Eliseo – Roma – Italia – X.19.1950. “The list of such revivals is fairly extensive, earning Callas the reputation to which she alluded in interviews; e.g., speaking on-air with Norman Ross in Chicago during September […]

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Maria Callas & Nicola Rossi Lemeni – “Credete alle femmine” Duet Fiorilla-Selim – II Act I Scene “Il Turco in Italia” (1814) – Gioacchino Rossini. Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala – Milano – I M.° Gianadrea Gavazzeni Conductor Cast: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Maria Callas, Franco Calabrese, Nicolai Gedda, Mariano Stabile. Album EMI – 1954.

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Maria Callas was in every sense the pioneer of the so-called “Rossini Renaissance”. Here, a musically impeccable “Terzetto”, full of “spirit”, really “buffo” and cynical, in the most appropriate “Rossini buffo” style. Maria Callas – Franco Calabrese & Mariano Stabile – “Si, mi e forza partir … Son la vite sul campo appassita”” Recitative and […]

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Montserrat Caballé – “Squallida veste e bruna” Aria of Fiorilla II Act – “Il Turco in Italia” (1814) – Gioacchino Rossini. Cast: Samuel Ramey – Leo Nucci – Enzo Dara – Ernesto Palacio – Paolo Barbacini – Jane Berbié. National Philarmonic Orchestra Ambrosian Opera Chorus Conductor M.° Riccardo Chailly SONY – 1990 (Remaster 2000 – […]

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“Il Turco in Italia” (1814) – Quintet II Act II Scene PART 3 (FINAL PART) “Questo vecchio maledetto” – Gioacchino Rossini. Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala – Milano – I M.° Gianadrea Gavazzeni Conductor Cast: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Maria Callas, Franco Calabrese, Nicolai Gedda, Mariano Stabile. Album EMI – 1954 (1997 Digitally Remaster).

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Maria Callas – “Non si dà follia maggiore dell’amare un solo oggetto” Aria of Fiorilla – “Il Turco in Italia” (1814) – Gioacchino Rossini. Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala – Milano – I M.° Gianadrea Gavazzeni Conductor Cast: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Maria Callas, Franco Calabrese, Nicolai Gedda, Mariano Stabile. Album EMI – 1954 (1997 Digitally Remaster). […]