Hot on the heels of the June 2000 La traviata à Paris, which was broadcast live to an ... more
international television audience of millions, comes the CD of the production. The two-disc release is not a studio recording but the actual soundtrack of the televis...
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Hot on the heels of the June 2000La traviata à Paris, which was broadcast live to an ... more
international television audience of millions, comes the CD of the production. The two-disc release is not a studio recording but the actual soundtrack of the television film, which was made over two days in the sort of venues Verdi had in mind when composing the opera. Hence the opening party takes place in Paris's Italian embassy--and you can hear the clanking of crockery and cutlery in the background. Of course this might not be to everyone's taste (we also get to hear birds, feet, doors and a host of other things) but for me it singles this recording out as unique--we are drawn in to the action but without the extraneous audience noise which scars many live recordings. José Cura is dynamic in his first Alfredo on disc, but the real star of the show is the hitherto little-known Siberian soprano Eteri Gvazava who really makes the role of Violetta her own in a highly-charged emotional performance. Zubin Mehta directs a spirited Orchestra Singonica Nazionale della RAI. --Rebecca Agnew
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Advantages: Callas at her best, stylish Alredo Kraus, Mario Sereni brilliant Disadvantages: Rough sound, better version on Pearl label
VERDI - LATRAVIATA - GHIONE EMI (LIVE RECORDING)
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LaTraviata is an opera about a socialite called Violetta who discovers love in the form of the tenor Alfredo who she originally rejects. They fall in love and live together. Alfredo's father visits her. Violetta is eventually persuaded to leave Alfredo so that his family name is not tarnished (threatening the future marriage of Alfredo's sister). Alfredo hates Violetta for this (he doesn't know of her promise with his father) and shames her in front of her friends. Violetta has TB and is dying. Alfredo comes to her and their love is rekindled just in time for her to die, the promise of future happiness coming to nothing.
This recording is very good. Callas is brilliant as Violetta, perhaps even better ...
Advantages: The drinking song, the melancholy oboes Disadvantages: Long - approx 2 hrs
LaTraviata
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave
Conductor: Sir Georg Solti
Orchestra: Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra
Performer: Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano): Violetta
Frank Lopardo (Tenor): Alfredo
Leo Nucci (Baritone): Gioggio Germont
Covent Garden Royal Opera House Chorus
Label: Decca
Released: July 1, 1995
Price: £25.99
Availability: At must good music shops
Giuseppe Verdi was born on October 1813 near Busseto in North Italy. Although Verdi composed in other mediums including sacred choral works, he is best known for his Operas. LaTraviata was composed in 1853. Translated as The woman gone astray, it was based on a play by Dumas (of The Three Muskateers fame). Set in Paris, it is an opera of true love.
Musical Synopsis
Act 1. The Parisian courtesan, Violetta, hosts a party in her ...
Advantages: The Performance Disadvantages: The Sound
EMI Callas Lisbon 1958 LaTraviata? AWFUL!!!
The performance is excellent, of course, but the transfer is one of the poorest that gramophone history has ever saw! This EMI release was made based on the tapes recorded via radio when the performance was broadcasted in 1958 by RDP (Radio Difusao Portuguesa - Portuguese Radio). The EXCELLENT news is that there is a brand new transfer of the EXACTLY same performance based not on those EMI tapes but by the master tapes owned by RDP (the original source, then). The difference is ABSOLUTELY HUGE! This new release made by the label "Pearl" using those tapes, sometimes makes you wonder if the performance was recorded in mono or stereo! I have both releases, the "EMI" and the "Pearl". Despite the excellent booklet included in EMI edition the Pearl Edition is far superior (specially in matters ...
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Title
Verdi: La Traviata à Paris (OST)
Composer
Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Main Performer
Alain Gabriel (Tenor); Eteri Gvazava (Soprano); Giorgio Gatti (Bass); Giovanni Rossodivita (Tenor); Giuliano Pagnani (Bass)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s)
Solisti Cantori Choir; RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Date of Release
26/06/2000
Recomended Retail Price
32.99 GBP
Label / Distributor
Teldec / TEN
Pieces in Set
2
Running Time
2 hours
Genre(s)
Stage works
SPAR Code
DDD
EAN
685738274123
Catalogue Number
8573
Work 1
Work Title
(La) traviata
Excerpt(s)
1. Prelude 2. ACT 1 - Dell'invito trascora è già l'ora 3. Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (Brindisi) 4. Che è ciò?; Un dì, felice; Ebben? Che diavol fate? 5. Si ridesta in ciel 6. È strano! È strano!; Ah, fors'è lui; Follie! Sempre libera 7. ACT 2, Scene 1 - Lunge da lei; De' miei bollenti spiriti; O mio rimorso! 8. Madamigella Valery?; Pura siccome un angelo; Bella voi siete; Non sapete quale affetto; Dite alla giovine; Un dì, quando 9. Morrò! La mia memoria; Or imponete... Non amarlo ditegli; Dammi tu forza 10. Ah, vive sol quel core; Di Provenza il mar; Ne rispondi 11. ACT 2, Scene 2 - Avrem lieta 12. Noi siamo zingarelle; Di Madride noi siam Mattadori 13. Alfredo! Voi!; Invitato a qui seguirmi 14. Ogni suo aver tal femmina; Di sprezzo degno!; Alfredo, Alfredo, di questo core 15. ACT 3 - Prelude 16. Annina? Commandate?; Teneste la promessa; Addio del passato 17. Largo al quadrupede 18. Signora, Che t'accade; Parigi, o cara; Gran Dio! morir sì giovine; Ah, non più; Parigi, o cara 19. Ah! Violetta! 20. Prendi, quest'è l'immagine; Se una pudica vergine 21. Se una pudica vergine
Composer
Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Genre
Stage works
Date Written
1853
Conductor
Zubin Mehta
Orchestra / Ensemble
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra / Ensemble
Solisti Cantori Choir
Main Performer
Alain Gabriel (Tenor), Eteri Gvazava (Soprano), Giorgio Gatti (Bass), Giovanni Rossodivita (Tenor), Giuliano Pagnani (Bass), José Cura (Tenor), Magali Léger (Soprano), Nicolas Rivenq (Baritone), Pasquale Ottaviano (Tenor), Raphaëlle Farman (Soprano), Rolando Panerai (Baritone), Victor Garcia Sierra (Bass)
Opera Part(s)
Alain Gabriel (Gastone), Eteri Gvazava (Violetta), Giorgio Gatti (Marquis), Giovanni Rossodivita (Servant), Giuliano Pagnani (Messenger), José Cura (Alfredo), José Cura (Alfredo Germont), Magali Léger (Annina), Nicolas Rivenq (Baron), Pasquale Ottaviano (Giuseppe), Raphaëlle Farman (Flora), Rolando Panerai (Germont), Rolando Panerai (Giorgio Germont), Victor Garcia Sierra (Doctor)
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