Opname: 2010
Opname: 1942-1964
Political intrigue during the French Revolution and the fate of a woman desired by two men are the focal points of Giordano's gripping drama. Plácido Domingo sings the title role with great passion and tenderness in this acclaimed 1981 Vienna State Opera production: Gabriela Benacková portrays the hero's beloved Maddalena. (bron: Deutsche Grammophon) "By depicting the little human tragedies, director Otto Schenk and his team evoke the ordinariness and helplessness of those who are caught up in the whirl of events." (Die Welt)
La cena delle beffe (Het diner van spot) is een toneelstuk van Sem Benelli geschreven in 1908. Het toneelstuk speelt zich af in Florence ten tijde van Lorenzo I de' Medici. Gianetto Malespini en Neri Chiamantesi strijden om de hand van Ginevra. De Italiaan Umberto Giordano schreef rond 1923 een opera op basis van het libretto van Sem Benelli. De eerste opvoering vond plaats op 20 december 1924 in La Scala in Milaan. De opera was een succes in zowel Italië als in de Verenigde Staten. (wikipedia.org) Deze CD´s bevatten een live-opname uit 1955 in Milaan.
"As is so often the case with these things, you spend half your life with no recorded version of a particular work and then all of a sudden it comes in duplicate. Thus, Giordano’s Siberia was out of bounds and inaccessible until a live recording from Martina Franca in Italy opened up the borders, and now we are back with it in a newly released performance dating from 1973. (...) And perhaps most decisive, this 1973 performance is free from stage noises, which in the live recording is a continual vexation; another tiresome feature is that the voices carry a halo of stage resonance around with them while the orchestra plays within a different acoustic. On the strength of this I would even suggest that those who have already bought might consider it worthwhile to buy again. I found the opera worked to better effect in this ‘new’, 1973, version, both musically and dramatically."(gramophone.com) Deze CD's bevatten een live-opname uit 1973.
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