PUCCINI: Edgar

(Carátula Customizada)

Edgar es la segunda ópera de Giacomo Puccini. Estrenada el 21 de abril de 1889 en el Teatro La Scala de Milán. Continuaron representaciones en el Teatro Comunale de Ferrara (1892), en el Teatro Real de Madrid (1892) y en el Teatro de la Ópera de Buenos Aires (1905).
Luego del éxito de su primera ópera Le Villi, Ricordi comisionó a Puccini la creación de esta ópera. El libreto estuvo a cargo de Ferdinando Fontana (el mismo poeta que había provisto el texto de la primera obra), quien se basó en La coupe et les lèvres, una obra de Alfred de Musset. La primera versión, de cuatro actos, tuvo un recibimiento cordial pero no caluroso. Un año después del estreno, en enero de 1890, se publicaba una segunda versión con otro final para el segundo acto. Puccini revisó la obra otra vez en otoño de 1891, eliminando el último acto, y una vez más en 1905. La forma final de la ópera tuvo mucho menos éxito que la primera.
La marcha fúnebre del tercer acto de Edgar fue interpretada durante el funeral de Puccini, bajo la dirección de Arturo Toscanini.
La historia tiene mucho parecido con la de Carmen de Georges Bizet. Ambas óperas presentan a un hombre confundido, que debe escoger entre el amor casto de una joven de su pueblo y la pasión desbordada de una exótica gitana.
Puccini utilizó parte de la música que cortó de la obra en Tosca, convirtiéndola en el dúo Amaro sol per te m’era il morire! del tercer acto.

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Place: Flanders.
Time: 1302.
[edit]Act 1
Fidelia gives an awakening Edgar a sprig of almond blossoms, but leaves when she sees Tigrana approaching. Tigrana tries to tempt Edgar to return to their life of debauchery, but fails when Edgar avows he loves Fidelia's purity. Frank, who has always loved Tigrana, enters, but when he cannot win her affections, he berates her, and they argue.
After Tigrana mocks the villagers at prayer, they order her to leave the village. She retreats to Edgar's house, where he defends her from the angry crowd. He announces that he will go with her, and burns down his house before leaving. Frank attempts to stop them, and is wounded in a duel with Edgar. The villagers curse the fleeing lovers.
[edit]Act 2
Edgar has left the wild orgy in Tigrana's house. He is tired of his life of debauchery and longs to return to Fidelia. Tigrana comes to him to entice him back to the party, but, just as she is about to succeed, a platoon of soldiers arrives. Edgar is surprised that Frank is leading them, and asks for forgiveness. Frank grants it happily because the fight actually had broken the hold Tigrana had on him. To escape from Tigrana, Edgar joins the platoon, despite her pleading. Tigrana swears revenge as the men leave her.
[edit]Act 3
A large funeral procession carries the body of Edgar, who has fallen in battle. Frank and the crowd praise Edgar as a hero, but the monk who heard Edgar's dying confession denounces him. He reveals Edgar's sins and debauchery, and the crowd, easily swayed, curses Edgar. Only Fidelia stands up for Edgar and vows that she will meet him in heaven.
After the crowd leaves, Tigrana enters, crying. She is upset that no one will see her weeping for Edgar. Frank and the monk ask her to denounce Edgar, but she resists until they offer her jewels. The crowd returns. The monk claims that Edgar betrayed his country for some gold, and Tigrana reluctantly confirms this. The soldiers try to desecrate the body and discover it is only a suit of armor. The monk reveals that he is Edgar and goes to leave with Fidelia, the only one who remained true to him. The vengeful Tigrana stabs and kills Fidelia. Edgar weeps over the lifeless body as the soldiers capture Tigrana, and the crowd prays.

PUCCINI: EDGAR - LEVI ( Varady, Tanner, McCormick, Jenis)
FIDELIA Julia Varady
TIGRANA Mary Ann McCormick
EDGAR Carl Tanner
FRANK Dalibor Jenis
GUALTIERO Carlo Cigni
Maitrise de Radio France
Choeur de Radio France & Orchestre National de France
YOEL LEVI
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DONIZETTI: La Favorita (Cossotto, Pavarotti)

DONIZETTI: LA FAVORITA - BONYNGE ( Pavarotti, Cossotto, Cotrubas)

La favorita (título original en francés, La Favorite) es una ópera en cuatro actos con música de Gaetano Donizetti y libreto en francés de Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz y Eugène Scribe, basado en la pieza teatral Le Comte de Comminges (1764) de François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud. Fue estrenada el 2 de diciembre de 1840 en la Opéra de París.
La ópera fue compuesta para el público parisino al estilo de la Grand Opéra francesa (larga duración, ballet, etc). En francés se llama La favorite. Posteriormente, Donizetti realizó una versión para el público italiano, llamada La favorita, que sufrió notables cambios al enfentarse con la censura. A pesar de ser la más conocida, muchos críticos opinan que el texto es deficiente. Esta versión fue estrenada en 1842.
Esta ópera introdujo dos cambios notables a lo que venía siendo la tradición italiana: el papel principal corresponde al tenor y el papel de Leonora no fue escrito para una soprano, sino para una mezzosoprano. Donizetti lo escribió para la cantante Rosina Stolz, mezzosoprano, que era la cantante preferida la ópera de París.
La historia de la ópera transcurre en España, en el año de 1340, cuando Castilla y Portugal se unieron para luchar contra los musulmanes en la Batalla del Salado. Uno de los personajes es el mismo Rey de Castilla, Alfonso XI.

Originally, Donizetti had been composing an opera by the name of Le Duc d'Albe as his second work for the Opera in Paris. However, the director, Léon Pillet, objected to an opera without a prominent role for his mistress, mezzo-soprano Rosine Stoltz. Donizetti therefore abandoned Le Duc d'Albe and borrowed heavily from L'ange de Nisida, an unrealized project from 1839, to create La Favorite. It was revived in Padua under the title of Leonora di Guzman in 1842, and at La Scala as Elda in 1843. Though Donizetti himself was not involved in these productions, the opera is now more commonly given in Italian rather than French.
Donizetti wrote the entire final act in three to four hours, with the exception of the Cavatina and a part of a duet, which were added at the rehearsal stage.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 Roles
2 Synopsis
2.1 Act 1
2.2 Act 2
2.3 Act 3
2.4 Act 4
3 Arrangements
4 Recordings
5 References
6 External links
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Role Voice type Premiere Cast, 2 December 1840[2]
(Conductor: François Antoine Habeneck)
Leonor de Guzmán (Leonora di Gusmann) mezzo-soprano Rosine Stoltz
Inés (Inez) soprano Elian
Fernand (Fernando) tenor Gilbert Duprez
Alphonse XI, King of Castille baritone Paul Barroilhet
Balthazar (Baldassare) bass Nicolas Levasseur
Don Gaspar, officer of the king tenor Pierre François Wartel
A lord tenor Molinier
Mayor, lords and ladies of the court, pages, guards, monks of Order of Saint James of Compostela
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Time: Early 14th-century Spain.
Place: Spain
A love triangle involving the King of Castile Alfonso XI, his mistress ('the favourite') Leonora, and her lover, Fernando, the story unfolds against the background of the Moorish invasions of Spain and power struggles between church and state.
[edit]Act 1
Scene 1
In the Monastery of St James, the monks are making their way to worship. Superior Baldassare (bass), father of the Queen of Castile, enters with Fernando (tenor). Baldassare knows that Fernando is preoccupied by something. Fernando confesses that he has fallen in love with a beautiful, but as yet unknown, lady. His faith in God remains, but he wishes to leave the monastery in search of her. Baldassarre angrily sends Fernando out of the monastery, warning him of the dangers of the outside world. He predicts that Fernando will one day return to the cloisters, a disappointed if wiser man.
Scene 2
Fernando has found his lady, Leonora (mezzo-soprano), declared his love and received it in return, but he is still unaware of her real identity. She has arranged to meet him on the island of Leon, to which he is brought blindfolded by boat. He is met by Inez (soprano), her companion, who impresses him with the need for secrecy. Leonora enters. She tells him that they can never marry and that they must not meet again, but nevertheless hands him a document to help him in his future. Shortly afterwards the arrival of the King is announced and Leonora leaves. Fernando is left to speculate about her elevated social position. Reading the document she has left him, he finds a commission in the army - an opportunity for advancement.
[edit]Act 2


Rosine Stoltz as Leonor de Guzmán and Gilbert Duprez as Fernando in Act 4
Alfonso (baritone) has defeated the Moors and taken Alcazar. In conversation with the courtier Don Gasparo (tenor), the King expresses his pleasure at Fernando's bravery. Alone, the King expresses his love for Leonora and his desire to divorce the Queen and marry her. He realizes that this will provoke the opposition of his powerful father-in-law Baldassare who is ultimately backed by the Pope. Leonora enters and expresses her anguish at remaining his mistress rather than his Queen. The King suspects that he is losing her affection. Don Gasparo enters with news that a letter has been discovered revealing that Leonora has a lover. She makes no denial, but at that moment Baldassare enters intent on forcing the King to abandon his plans for the royal divorce.
[edit]Act 3
Alfonso is to honour Fernando for his role in the war. He asks Fernando what reward he would like and Fernando asks to marry the woman who has inspired him in his bravery. Alfonso asks who she is and Fernando points to Leonora. The King is astonished to learn that Fernando is his successful rival. In an abrupt change of mind, he orders Fernando and Leonora to marry within one hour. Leonora is left with mixed feelings of apprehension and delight. She decides that Fernando must be informed about her past and sends Inez to him. However, unknown to Leonora, Inez is arrested before she can see him. Fernando only learns the truth after the wedding ceremony. Considering himself dishonoured by the King he breaks his sword, leaves Leonora and entrusts himself to Baldassarre.
[edit]Act 4
Baldassare's daughter, the Queen, has died of jealousy and grief, and her body has been sent to him at the Monastery of St James. Prayers are being said for her repose. Fernando is preparing to enter his new religious life. Leonora enters in a state of exhaustion and faints before the cross. At first Fernando rejects her, but eventually moved by her love and sincerity, he is willing to give himself to her once more, but it is too late, Leonora collapses once more and dies in his arms.

Ileana Cotrubas
Luciano Pavarotti
Bruno de Franceschi
Fiorenza Cossotto
Gabriel Bacquier
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Piero de Palma
Bologna Community Theater Orchestra & Chorus
RICHARD BONYNGE
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R. STRAUSS Friedenstag (Día de Paz)

(Carátula Customizada)

THE COMMANDANT Albert Dohmen
MARIA; HIS WIFE Deborah Voigt
A SERGANT - MAJOR Alfred Reiter
A CORPORAL Jochen Kupfer
A PRIVATE SOLDIER Tom Martinsen
THE HOLSTEINER Attila Jun
THE MAYOR Jon Villars
THE PASTOR Sami Luttinen
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Place: The citadel of a beleaguered Catholic town in Germany under siege by Protestant troops from Holstein
Time: 24 October 1648, the last day of the Thirty Years' War
The Sergeant of the Guard receives the watch from a private that the enemy has just set fire to a farm. A young Italian messenger from Piedmont arrives with a letter from the Emperor to the town Commandant, and then sings of his homeland. The munitions officer, a musketeer and other soldiers mockingly comment on the youth as one who has never known war, just as they have never known peace. The soldiers then hear distant noises, thinking at first that these are the enemy, but then realizing it's the townspeople approaching the fortress, The Commandant appears to address the townspeople. The Mayor and a prelate appeal to the Commandant to surrender the town, claiming that both their side and the enemy are suffering needlessly. The Commandant, however, wants only total victory and dismisses the sentiments. An officer from the front appears and informs the Commandant that the town will fall unless the ammunition under the fortress is used. The Commandant refuses to release the ammunition for combat.
The Commandment reads the letter from the Emperor to the townsfolk. The Emperor has declared that the town must hold, with no surrender. The people protest strongly, at 30 years of continuous war. The Commandant is shaken by the reaction, and orders the crowd to disperse and wait a further signal from him. He then orders his soldiers to collect the gunpowder underneath the fortress and to give him the fuse. The Commandant recalls how the Sergeant saved his life at the battle of Magdeburg, and now in turn offers the Sergeant a chance to leave the fortress. The Sergeant declines, along with the munitions officer and private. After thanking the Italian messenger, the Commandant orders his troops to work.
Maria, the Commandant's wife, enters the citadel, and remarks on the crowd and her husband. Her husband enters, noting that she has disobeyed his order to her not to enter the citadel. Their voices contrast in their duet, she tired of war, he exulting in it and saying how he plans to explode the fortress, taking all its occupants with it. Even so, the Commandant offers her the chance to flee, for her safety. Maria vows to stay at her husband's side.
A cannon shot sounds, apparently signaling an enemy attack. The sergeant hands the Commandant the fuse, but he will not use it, preferring combat. The next sound, however, is of distant bells, and other bells from the town join in. The sergeant then reports that the Holstein troops are approaching, but not to attack, rather decked with streamers, flowers and white flags. The Commandant thinks that this is a ruse. The Mayor and prelate, however, are overjoyed to see this procession, mistaking it for the Commandant's promised signal.
The Holstein commander then enters to seek the Commandant, and offers the news that the Thirty Years' War is over that very day, as an armistice has been signed. The Commandant is harsh in his acknowledgement of the Holstein commander, and insults him to the point where he draws his sword. The Holstein commander reaches for his own sword, but does not draw it. Maria then throws herself between the two military commanders, pleading for peace between them. Suddenly, the Commandant and the Holstein commander embrace. The opera concludes with a chorus of reconciliation.



Friedenstag (Peace Day) is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, his Opus 81, to a German libretto by Joseph Gregor. Strauss had hoped to work again with Stefan Zweig on a new project after their previous collaboration of Die schweigsame Frau, but the Nazi authorities had harassed Strauss over his collaboration with Zweig, who was of Jewish ancestry. While the idea for the story was from Zweig, he then suggested Gregor as a "safe" collaborator for the actual writing of the libretto.[1] Zweig's influence on the work nonetheless remained in its "form and dramatic substance".[2]
The opera was premiered at Munich on July 24, 1938[3] and dedicated to Viorica Ursuleac and her husband Clemens Krauss, the lead and conductor respectively. Strauss had intended Friedenstag as part of a double-bill, to be conducted by Karl Böhm in Dresden, that would include as the second part his next collaboration with Gregor, Daphne.[4]
The opera thematically expresses anti-war sentiments, which William Mann has described as "a determined counter to the militaristic policies of Nazi Germany".[5] These caused the work to be shelved after the outbreak of World War II.

Staatsopernchor Dresden
Staatskapelle Desden
GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI

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Lieder. GRANADOS Caballé

Granados - Montserrat Caballé, Rafael Ferrer, Miguel Zanetti

Especialmente para Jesús, de esta nuestra Diva y el gran Zanetti.

Enrique Granados

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Track Listings

1. Canciones amatorias: Descubrase el pensamiento de mi secreto cuidado

2. Canciones amatorias: Mananica era

3. Canciones amatorias: Llorad, corazon, que teneis razon

4. Canciones amatorias: Mira que soy nina, !amor, dejame!

5. Canciones amatorias: No lloreis, ojuelos

6. Canciones amatorias: Iban al pinar

7. Canciones amatorias: Gracia mia

8. Tonadillas: La maja dolorosa No. 1

9. Tonadillas: La maja dolorosa No. 2

10. Tonadillas: La maja dolorosa No. 3

11. Tonadillas: El tra la la y el punteado

12. Tonadillas: El mirar de la maja

13. Tonadillas: Callejeo

14. Tonadillas: Amor y odio

15. Tonadillas: El majo discreto

16. Tonadillas: El majo timido

17. Tonadillas: La maja de Goya

18. Tonadillas: Elegia eterna

19. Tonadillas: Quejas, o la maja y el ruisenor (From Goyescas)

20. Tonadillas: Canco d'amor

21. Tonadillas: L'ocell profeta

Montserrat Caballé, sopran

Rafael Ferrer, conductor

Miguel Zanetti, piano (18. - 21. )

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DONIZETTI: Linda di Chamounix

Linda di Chamounix es una ópera melodramática (o sea, mezcla de opera comica y de opera dramatica) en tres actos de Gaetano Donizetti sobre el libreto en italiano escrito por Gaetano Rossi. Se estrenó en Viena el 19 de mayo de 1842.
Linda di Chamounix supone la primera de las óperas compuestas por Donizetti para la corte vienesa, y fue tal el éxito logrado que el emperador denominó a su autor compositor de la corte y maestro de capilla imperial. La emperatriz, que asistió también al espectáculo, regaló al músico una banda con una dedicatoria personal bordada en oro. La obra sería traducida al alemán en 1849, y puede decirse que de alguna manera es la más mozartiana de las óperas de Donizetti por lo fino de su factura y una especie de melancolía que recorre toda la composición, mezclada con elementos de humor.
Fue muy popular en su época, y puede considerarse una de las obras "maestras" de DONIZETTI, como Lucia, L'elisir, Anna Bolena, o Maria Stuarda, o al menos como una de sus operas "redondas".
La obra está situada en el punto intermedio entre el clasicismo y el romanticismo. El personaje femenino fue creado para una de las más ilustres divas del siglo XIX, Eugenia Tadolini, destacando el aria O luce di quest'anima.
Linda es una chica de Saboya que, para salvar sus padres de la miseria, accede a las (poco honestas, como se verá) atenciones del Marqués de Boisfleury. Después de un dramático enfrentamiento con su padre, Linda pierde la razón, pero la recuperará al escuchar la canción de su amigo Pierotto, que suena a guisa de nostálgico leitmotiv a lo largo de la ópera.
Linda huirá en París, donde conocerá el verdadero amor en forma de un joven noble que, casualmente, es sobrino del marqués. La madre del joven se opone al enlace y Linda volverá trastornada por el despecho a su pueblo. Hasta allá irá a buscarla el galante enamorado; superada la oposición familiar y, en un final feliz, todos celebrarán juntos su amor.


Donizetti: Linda Di Chamounix (3 CD, APE)
# Performer: Alfonso Antoniozzi, Boguslaw Fiksinski, Donato di Stefano, Francesca Provisionato, Luca Canonici, et al.
# Orchestra: Eastern Netherlands Orchestra, Koor van de Nationale Reisopera
# Conductor: Andrew Wise, Gabriele Bellini
# Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
# Audio CD (June 18, 1996)
# SPARS Code: DDD
# Number of Discs: 3
# Format: APE (image+cue)
# Label: Arts Music
# ASIN: B000006BZE
# Size: 651 MB
# Recovery: +3%
# Scan: yes
# Server: filesonic, hotfile







Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Performed by Eastern Netherlands Orchestra
with Petteri Salomaa, Francesca Provisionato
Conducted by Gabriele Bellini



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