Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (in englischer Sprache) auf CD
Pagliacci (in englischer Sprache)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
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- Künstler:
- Dennis O'Neill, Rosa Mannion, Alan Opie, William Dazeley, Peter Bronder, London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
- Label:
- Chandos
- Aufnahmejahr ca.:
- 97
- Artikelnummer:
- 8625328
- UPC/EAN:
- 0095115300329
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 31.8.1998
Product Information
Renowned tenor Dennis O'Neill stars as Canio in this new recording in English of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Disappointed with his, lack of fame and frustrated with the success of Cavalleria rusticana, Leoncavalla shut himself up in his house for five months, and composed the libretto and music for Pagliacci. He took the score to Ricordi's rival Sonzogno who arranged its first performance on 21 May 18992 in Milan under Toscanini, and it was so successful that it made Leoncavallo an overnight celebrity.
The plot was broadly based on what he remembered of one of his father's law cases – a middle-aged actor who murders his unfaithful young wife. To this he added the commedia dell'arte playlet and the Zola-inspired prologue. But Leoncavallo's skill lay more in his ability to clothe these devices in outstanding music. He was an accomplished librettist; his scenario is at once credible and swift-moving. The characterization may not run very deep, but is convincing enough to make us believe that the characters are real people. For his score, Leoncavallo took as much as he needed from Wagnerian methods – that composer's music and personality had made a great impression on him. There is rudimentary use of Leitmotiv, and neither the harmony nor the orchestration could have been as it is had Wagner not existed. However the score is recognizably Italian in flavour, and the various set-pieces are fully integrated into the structure in the manner of late Verdi. In performance, Pagliacci stands or falls by the writing for, and the interpretation of, Canio. Leoncavallo reveals an honest man felled by jealousy and remorse, a fitting successor to Verdi's Otello, and requiring a heroic tenor of like mettle. His final aria, rising to a climax on top B, pierces the heart, raising the last pages of the opera from melodrama to true tragedy.
Rezensionen
»...this is the best yet of Chandos's admirable Opera in English series: Parry's conducting is spacious, but he captures the theatrical frisson of Leoncavallo's potboiler to perfection. Although this is a studio production, the smell of grease-paint is palpable and Parry wrings all the raw Latin emotion out of this lurid tale of rustic jealousy, sexual betrayal and murder. He has cast the opera intelligently with British singers: it is launched magnificently by Alan Opie's Prologue, ringingly sung, every word crystal clear, and Dennis O'Neill brings Italianate tone and terrifying intensity to the chief clown, Canio. Rosa Mannion sings a sweetly lyrical Nedda, but there is a sting in her chest register for her vituperative jibes at the treacherous hunchback Tonio. A treat...« Hugh Canning – The Times
The performance works well… I commend it to anyone who wants to hear Pagliacci in English
American Record Guide
Parry's big-scale, energetic reading, finely played by the LPO. Opera
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
Pagliacci (Oper in Prolog und 2 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme)
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1 Hello...Hello... (Prolog)
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2 Chor: Hey! They're back! They're back!
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3 Arie: Your most humble servant
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4 Cantabile: If he tried it I promise you
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5 Chor: You hear them playing?
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6 Introduktion: The ugly look he gave me
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7 Arie: Swallow, fly away
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8 Duett: It's you! I thought that you had gone with Canio
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9 Duett: Nedda!...
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10 Why do you go on with this tormented life?
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11 I must be strong
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12 How can you tell me you ever loved me
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13 Be very careful, and then we can surprise them
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14 Introduktion: Go on stage...
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15 Arie: Put on your costume
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16 Intermezzo
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17 Chor: Ohe! Ohe! Quickly! Hurry! (2. Akt)
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18 Pagliaccio, that's my husband
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19 Serenade: "O Columbina"
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20 She's waiting. She is a goddess!
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21 Arlecchin! - Columbina
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22 Pour the potion in his glass at midnight
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23 Arie: No, we're not in a play!
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