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Average customer rating: Only one diva, only Bartoli. Amazing disc Beautiful Music, but vocally unmusical. Not to my taste Exciting, moving, beautiful, energetic, heart-felt, fantastic...

Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel · Scarlatti · Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski Cecilia Bartoli , George Frideric Handel , Alessandro Scarlatti , Antonio Caldara , Marc Minkowski , and Les Musiciens du Louvre Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Caldara, Antonio | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Alessandro Scarlatti | Scarlatti, Alessandro | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Bartoli, Cecilia | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works Featuring Bartoli | Bartoli, Cecilia | A to B | Featured Performers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Caldara, Antonio | ( C ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Scarlatti, Alessandro | ( S ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Bartoli, Cecilia | ( B ) | Performers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sacred Songs Cecilia Bartoli - If You Love Me (Se tu m'ami ), 18th-Century Italian Songs Vivaldi: Bajazet [Includes Bonus DVD] Cecilia Bartoli - The Vivaldi Album / Il Giardino Armonico Lamento ASIN: B000A6T1HC Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. All'arme si accesi guerrieri (Aria dell Pace)
2. Mentre io godo (Aria della Speranza)
3. Un pensiero nemico di pace
4. Vanne pentita a piangere
5. Sparga il senso lascivo veleno
6. Caldo Sangue
7. Come nembo che fugge col vento
8. Ecco negl'orti tuoi...Che dolce simpatica
9. Qui resta...L'alta Roma
10. Lascia la spina cogli la rosa
11. Ahi qual cordoglio...Doppio affetto
12. Si piangete pupille dolente
13. Ahi quanto cieca...Come foco allo splendore
14. Disserratevi oh porte d'Averno
15. Notte funesta...Ferma l'ali

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Cecilia Bartoli's new CD features a collection of music that could not be heard in her native Rome at the start of the 18th century due to Papal censorship. Theaters, the Church felt, were places of evil and corruption and operas led people to immorality. But some music-loving senior members of the priesthood asked composers to write oratorios and cantatas--indeed, operas without staging, essentially--for their own private entertainment. Call it what you will, the music is sensational--by turns virtuosic, gentle, and playful--and always expressive: just right, it seems, for Cecilia Bartoli's temperament. The opening aria on the CD, a call for peace in the name of Jesus, is, in fact, a dazzling martial air with trumpets blaring and the voice going through an amazing array of coloratura fireworks. It shows Bartoli at her most aggressive. The listener is practically hurled back from the speakers when she begins, with rapid-fire runs and trills and cascades of notes, all perfectly in place. Showy arias are offset by several tender ones ("Lascia la spina" from Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno returns in the composer's Rinaldo, four years later, as the now-famous "Lascia ch'io pianga"), and Bartoli exhibits again, her many, many levels of pianissimo and sensitive phrasing. Marc Minkowski and his Musiciens are just right for this repertoire and back Bartoli up superbly. This is a fascinating project, rivetingly performed and presented. --Robert Levine

Album Description

Limited Australian pressing. An extraordinary album of dramatic arias written in Rome at a time when opera performance was forbidden by the Church, and female singers were forbidden from singing in public. Decca. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

Only one diva, only Bartoli........2007-06-19

Just like Farinelli was the opera phenomenon of his time, fast-forward to the 21st century, Bartoli gives once again this music of the Italian settecento a breath of new life in all its splendor and glory.

In Opera Proibita, Bartoli's repertoire not only reflects on her as a consummate vocal artist but also as the ultimate scholar. Rarely an opera singer would dig this dip and go that far to unearth great scores from total obscurity. Even more uncommonly a singer would take the challenge of singing these arias without the risk of ridiculing herself, but to the contrary establishing a new record and precedent.

Her execution of the Handel arias is truly astonishing in coloratura and melismas probably not heard for three hundred years when only the best castrati commanded the virtuosity to tackle these arias. Also surprising and refreshing was to hear works by Handel that show his wild side.

Bartoli brings this album to a high climax with the arias from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. This is really her realm and true medium. Her vocal runs in "Un pensiero nemico di face" sound like a first violin, and as if this was not difficult enough she ornaments the da capo melismas in tempo from allegro to presto molto vivace, and transitions into a note crescendo with great ease and certainty. Wonderful!

Amazing disc.......2007-03-03

This disc has all the elements needed for an amazing disc. The conductor, orchestra, and music are all top notch. Bartoli's singing is amazing. I find this album energizing and a testament to how exciting baroque music can be. However, if you don't like Bartoli's voice in previous recordings, you probably won't change your opinion because of this disc.

Beautiful Music, but vocally unmusical........2007-02-09

I owned over a dozen of Bartoli solo albums, plus other operatic albums of hers. From the early days of 'Arias Antique' I got impressed by her beautiful singing and her outstanding technique.
Alas, starting from her Vivaldi Album, I do not find her singing that beautiful any more. True, the songs picked there are technically very challenging, used to be sung by male castrato singers. The songs picked here are even more difficult.
BUT - is singing just about technique?
There are some songs in the Vivaldi Album that have the vocal musical lines broken in places. Here in Opera Proibita, almost every song has this problem, even the slow ones of Caldara. Compare her singing in the earlier part of her career, her early Mozart operas, I could not help but wonder if Ms. Bartoli has taken the correct turn in her career: her forced high notes, though squarely hit, do not sound at all pleasing; her runs and trills, though taken accurately at great tempi, is no longer truly musical. Compare her singing with the other two great baroque mezzo-sopranos Bernarda Fink and the tragically short-lived late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, you would understand what I mean.

With the latest turn in Ms. Bartoli's singing, I am being forced to admit that this is a singer of great technical brilliance and enormous fame, but not at all pleasing to the ear.

Not to my taste.......2006-11-05

Cecilia Bartoli has her fans, no doubt, as the other reviews on this site demonstrate, people who love her warmth of tone and her impassioned interpretations. These vocal qualities may suit the performance conventions of the nineteenth-century repertoire; however in this anthology of eighteenth century sacred arias the result is an unhappy imbalance. The problem is, in my opinion, one of clashing calls for attention, whose affect is to distract the listener from attention to the music itself. True, the god of the counter-reformation was to be worshipped ecstatically. And true, also, that I am an anti-romantic listener, who grew up with those early music performances which valued detached purity of tone. This was vaunted as the ideal means of interpretation of the rediscovered seventeenth and eighteenth-century repertoire (it protested too much its rightness, and alienated people- but I like it). However to return to the subject at hand- I find Bartoli's readings of these crypto-erotic arias overblown and self-indulgent. I guess that this sort of coloratura always offered a chance for a bit of ego to be let loose, even in church- however when the performance goes so far as to insist on attention to itself rather than deflecting attention to the music, I stop enjoying the music. This recording does not find the balance between the big romantic personality and eighteenth-century performance conventions, which, after 30 or 40 years of self-critique, have some authority. I disliked it very much. I am a great admirer of Mark Minkowski's opera interpretations, which I think find a perfect balance between these opposing impulses of warm and cool- a binary we can trace throughout aesthetics and through the ages. Here there's an overbalance in favour of warm (hot, in fact), which the performers might argue is just the sort of vivification that Baroque performance needs. Not for me. I gave it to a friend (she's still a friend).

Exciting, moving, beautiful, energetic, heart-felt, fantastic..........2006-09-02

What more can I add?

Cecilia Bartoli just "does it" for me almost every time. She is just fantastic in my books. I love her dearly. She can give one an adrenalin rush with her bravura singing and then break one's heart with her pathos.

This is a superb collection of Baroque arias from "almost" operas! ;-))
I also liked the cheeky and none-too-subtle references to La Dolce Vita on
cover and the images inside the disc. Nice to see an opera singer with a playful sense of humour!

I am listening to this disc as I write this review and all I can say is that I love this disc and it is clearly one of the best Signorina Bartoli has released, although I like all of her recordings. Listen to track 12 and you will buy this disc.

More, please!

PS: How about DECCA getting Cecilia Bartoli and Andreas Scholl together for a musical project? I'd love to see two of my favourite singers together on the one disc.
PSPS: If you like Opera Proibita, buy Andreas Scholl's Arcadia and Arias for Senesino, too!

Average customer rating: Beyond all description... An Absolute Must-Have for Any Pavarotti Fan Wonderful!!!!

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Album Description

Disc 1: Donizetti Arias from L'elisir d'amore, Maria Stuarda, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Fille du Regiment, Linda di Chamounix, La Favorita, and Don Paquale

Disc 2: Bellini/Donizetti/Verdi Includes arias from I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, La Sonnambula (1976 Duet Recording), I Beatrice di Tenda, I Puritani, Don Sebastien, Il Duca d'Alba, I Lombardi, I due Foscari, Ernani, and Attila

Disc 3: Verdi 1 Includes arias from Macbeth, Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, and Les Vepres Siciliennes

Disc 4: Verdi 2 Includes arias from Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Don Carlos, Aida, Otello, and Requiem

Disc 5: Puccini Includes arias from La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot

Disc 6: Puccini and Verismo Includes arias from Cavalleria Rusticana, Manon Lescaut, Pagliacci, Andrea Chenier, and Tosca

Disc 7: Arias 1 Includes arias from La Griselda, Atalanta, Orfeo ed Euridice, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Guillaume Tell, and more. Includes Unreleased Material.

Disc 8: Arias 2 Includes arias from Martha, Mefistofele, La Giocanda, Adriana Lecouvreur, Rosenkavalier, Fedora, Werther, Faust, Carmen, and more

Disc 9: Italian Songs Includes: In questa tomba oscura, Me voglio fa'na casa, Non t'amo piu, Pace non trovo, and more

Disc 10: Neapolitan and Italian Popular Songs Includes: O sloe mio, Torna a Surriento, Core 'ngrato, Funiculi Funicula, Non ti scordar di me, Mamma and more

Bonus CD: The 1964 EP (previously unreleased) "Che Gelida Manina," "E lucevan le stelle," "Questo o quella," "La Donna e mobile," and "Parmi veder" with Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Edward Downes conducting

Customer Reviews:

Beyond all description..........2006-09-19

As a boy, I heard so many hyperbolic references to the legendary Enrico Caruso that I chose to purchase a remastered copy of his "Greatest Hits" when I first began to acquire recordings as a young man. Soon after, I discovered Pavarotti and my life was changed by his music. Caruso ended up in the Goodwill Store. I am convinced that in 500 years, should the earth cool again and the Muslim hoards abate, the civilized world will still tell tales of the greatest tenor. I have often found myself grumpy when searching for recordings of Pavarotti because of the inconsistent fidelity of the recordings. That search for the definitive Pavarotti recordings, regarding both content and fidelity, has ended with the release of this extraordinary collection. Worth it's weight in gold, the Puccinni Volume (#5) alone is enough to send someone like me into hyperspace. I am astounded by the beauty and power of these performances. I will always remember the day, not long ago, when a NPR commentator glibly mentioned between the weather and the night's playlist the terrible words, "Luciano Pavarotti has announced that he is retiring from Opera." I felt as if something indescribably beautiful was fading from the world. Of course, beauty in all of its earthly forms is fleeting at best, but these discs contain a reflection of it that will surely bolster any soul.

An Absolute Must-Have for Any Pavarotti Fan.......2004-01-09

...and that certainly goes without saying. My one tiny little problem with it is that his recordings of "Santa Lucia" and "Caruso" are not on this incredible box-set. Even though I have those recordings on other CDs, I still think those are very important pieces to include on this set (assuming that this set of Pavi hits would be the only compilation that that any fan of this phenomenal tenor would have). He is probably my biggest idol, and he deserves to have been one of the biggest opera stars in history.

Wonderful!!!!.......2002-11-07

This Pavarotti set; The Pavarotti Edition; is a wonderful collection of Arias and songs that cover Luciano's great career. Pavarotti is THE Voice of the 20th Century and this set does him justice. It includes 10 CDs with over 750 minutes of music; Includes Music from All of His roles; has a beautiful 76 page full color booklet; Has a wonderful write up; and includes a bonus CD of Pavarotti's fist album, a 45, from 1964, which has never been released on CD before this set. Every Song is hear, This SET is a must have for every Pavarotti Fan.

Average customer rating: Captivating Performances, Great Singer Indeed engineering marvel revives lost art

Claudia Muzio: Complete HMV (1911) & Edison (1920-25) Recordings Manufacturer: Romophone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Boito, Arrigo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Chopin | Chopin, Frédéric | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gluck | Gluck, Christoph W. | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Herbert | Herbert, Victor | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Leoncavallo | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Massenet | Massenet, Jules | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Meyerbeer | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Pergolesi | Pergolesi, Gio Battista | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rossini | Rossini, Gioacchino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Nocturnes | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Ladino | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001S38 Release Date: 1995-11-22

Tracks:

1. La Boheme: Si. Mi Chiamano Mimi
2. La Traviata: Che Gli Diro...Amami, Alfredo
3. Il Trovatore: Tacea La Notte Placida
4. Eugene Onegin: Sei Forse L'angelo Fedele
5. Salvator Rosa: Mia Piccirella
6. Andrea Chenier: La Mamma Morta
7. Crisantemi
8. Chere Nuit
9. La Wally: Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana
10. Il Trovatore: D'amor Sull'ali Rosee
11. I Pagliacci: Qual Fiamma Avea Nel Guardo! 'Ballatella'
12. La Boheme: Si. Mi Chiamano Mimi
13. Zaza: Ammogliato...Dir Che Ci Sono Al Mondo
14. I Pagliacci: Nedda! Silvio! A Quest'ora - Claudio Muzio/Mario Laurenti
15. Aspiration
16. Eternamente - Claudio Muzio/Albert Spalding/Robert Gaylor
17. Adriana Lecouvreuer: Io Son L'umile Ancella
18. Loreley: Dove Son?

Tracks:

1. Mefistofele: L'altra Notte In Fondo Al Mare
2. Madame Sans-Gene: Che Me Ne Faccio Del Vostro Castello
3. Bianca E Fernando: Sorgi, O Padre
4. La Forza Del Destino: Pace, Pace, Mio Dio
5. Herodiade: Egli E Bel
6. Odorano Le Rose
7. L'Africana: Figlio Del Sol
8. Rinaldo: Lascia Ch'io Pianga
9. I Lombardi: O Madre, Dal Cielo Soccorri Al Mio Pianto
10. La Separazione
11. L'Amico Fritz: Son Pochi Fiori
12. Paride Ed Elena: Spiagge Amate
13. Mal D'amore
14. Shepherd's Love
15. I Vespri Siciliani: Merce, Dilette Amiche
16. Guardami!
17. Carmen: Je Dis Que Rien Ne M'epouvante
18. Les Contes D'Hoffmann: Elle A Fui, La Tourterelle
19. Orange Blossoms: A Kiss In The Dark
20. Se Tu M'ami

Customer Reviews:

Captivating Performances, Great Singer Indeed.......2000-05-05

The Edison recordings were made when Claudia Muzio was in her absolute prime. They catches her voice at its freshest. Yet, I find myself hardly prepared for such wonderful artistry and interpretative insights. Muzio's timeless singing has left indelible memories on all who heard her either in person or on records and she had a great influence on Maria Callas, her successor. Indeed, Maria Callas owed a lot to her great predecessor. Ward Marston reproduced the recordings with real affection and Muzio's unique voice rings out with arresting immediacy. This is a set that should find an exalted place in every opera lover's collection.

engineering marvel revives lost art.......1999-03-04

I am amazed to be able to hear the artistry of Claudia Muzio on CD. For those who have only heard artists from the turn of the century on wind up 78s the loving care with which these treasures have been restored with is truely a revelation. The singers of Muzios era were great storytellers of passion and expression. Muzios voice is delivered with simplicity of tone and accuracy of vowel. Her grace in phrasing must have influenced Tebaldi.

Average customer rating: A Historical (and top-notch) Find

The Edison Trials: Voice Audition Cylinders of 1912-1913 Manufacturer: Marston ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Boito, Arrigo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Delibes, Léo | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Donizetti | Donizetti, Gaetano | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Humperdinck, Engelbert | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Leoncavallo | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Massenet | Massenet, Jules | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Meyerbeer | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Saint-Saëns, Camille | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Thomas | Thomas, Ambroise | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolf | Wolf, Hugo | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rossini | Rossini, Gioacchino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Ladino | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004VXOK Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

1. Manon: Ah! Fuyez, Douce Image - Fulgenzio Abela
2. Arpeggios - Mariska Aldrich
3. Magasan Repul A Daru, Szepen Szal - Mariska Aldrich
4. Le Cid: Pleurez Mes Yeuz - Alice Allix
5. La Traviata: Ah, Fors' E Lui; Sempre Libera - Adelaid Andreyeva Von Skilondz
6. La Favorita: O Mio Fernando - Fanny Anitua
7. L'Elisir D'Amour: Una Furtiva Lagrima - Gastone Baracchini
8. Tristezza - Gastone Baracchini
9. Tannhauser: O Du Mein Holder Abendstern - Amleto Barbieri
10. Aida: OPatria Mia - Giulia Battaglioli-Leotti
11. Mattinata - Angelo Bendinelli
12. La Sonnambula: come Per Me Sereno - Margherita Bevignani
13. Werther: Pourquoi Me Reveiller - Leon Beyle
14. Unidentified French Aria/Song - Paul Blancard
15. Mefistofele: L'altra Notte - Ebe Boccolini-Zacconi
16. Mignon: Connais-tu Le Pays? - Giuseppina Bonetti
17. La Traviata: Di Provenza Il Mar - Francesco Maria Bonini
18. Konigskinder: Wohin Bist Du Gegangen - Friederich Brodersen
19. Norma: Solo Furtiva - Rodolfina Brunetto
20. La Traviata: Addio Del Passato - Giorgina Caprile
21. Don Pasquale: La Morale In Tutto Questo - Albertina Cassani
22. Lakme: Ou Va La Jeune Hindouse? - Berthe Cesar
23. Simon Boccanegra: Il Lacerato Spirito - Ignazio Cesari
24. Parsifal: So Ward Es Uns Verhiessen - Georges Pierre Clauzure
25. Tosca: Amaro Sol Per Te; Recondita Armonia - Egidio Cunego
26. Mignon: Elle Ne Croyait Pas - Giacomo Damacco
27. Mignon: Ah,Que Ton Ame - Giacomo Damacco
28. Mignon: Connais-tu Le Pays? - Laura Del Lungo
29. La Wally: Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana - Emma Druetti
30. Tosca: Vissi D'arte - Emma Druetti
31. La Jolie Fille De Perth: Quand La Flamme - Pierre Ernest Dupre
32. Salvator Rosa: Di Sposa, Di Padre - Ermanino Eck
33. Manon Lescaut: In Quelle Trine Morbide - Eugenia Emanuelli
34. Unidentified Vars - Andree (Marie-Louise) Famin
35. La Boheme: Quando M'en Vo - Victoria Fer
36. Les Huguenots: Nobles Seigneurs - Irene Von Fladung
37. Don Carlos: O Mia Regina - Dolores Frau
38. Maitre Pathelin: Je Pense A Vous - Andre Gilly
39. Verborgenheit - Mora (Mary) Von Goetz

Tracks:

1. Manon: Adieu, Notre Petite Table - Rose Heilbronner
2. Mignon: Adieu, Mignon, Courage - Waldemar Henke
3. Unidentified Song/Aria - Ladislava Hotkovska
4. Rigoletto: La Donna E Mobile - Guillaume Ibos
5. Andrea Chenier: Nemico Della Patria - Roberto Janni
6. Faust: Recitative To The Jewel Song - Eva Korb
7. Aida: Ohime! Morir Mi Sento! - Beata Kosta-Marrugat
8. Carmen: Je Dis Que Rien - Mme. Willaume-Lambert
9. Tosca: Qual Occhi Al Mondo - Robert Lassalle
10. Les Huguenots: Nobles Seigneurs - Antoinette Laute-Brun
11. La Boheme: Mi Chiamano Mimi - Mercedes Llopart
12. Il Trovatore: Ai Nostri Monti - Eugenia Lopez-Nunes
13. La Favorita: O Mio Fernando - Elena Lucci
14. My Dreams - Francis Maclennan
15. I Pagliacci: Prologo - Alfred Maguenat
16. Peer Gynt: Solvejg's Song - Madeleine Menard
17. Dos Besos Tengo En El Alma (Aragon Folk Song) - Francisco G. Molina
18. Baciami (Tosti) - Luigi Montesanto
19. Herodiade: Il Est Doux - Lucie Muratet
20. Tosca: E Lucevan Le Stelle - Pedro Navia
21. Samson Et Dalila: Mon Couer S'ouvre - Margarethe Ober
22. Unidentified Russian Song - Olga Alessandrovna Olghina
23. Arpeggios - Felisa (Felicita) Ordugna
24. Mignon: Connais-Tu Le Pays? - Amalia Paoli
25. Tosca: Recondita Armonia - Nino Perya
26. L'amico Fritz: Lacere, Miseri - Adele (Adela) Ponzano
27. Tosca: Vissi D'arte - Esmerelda Pucci
28. Faust: Avant De Quitter - Honore Raynal
29. La Wally: Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana - Maria Roggero
30. Manon: Je Marche Sur Tous Les Chemins - Mlle. Romanitza
31. Unidentified French Patriotic Selection - Georges Roselly
32. La Fanciulla Del West: Ch'ella Mi Creda - Emanuele Salazar
33. Lakme: Pourquoi Dans Les Grands Bois - Elisabetta Schiulghina
34. La Boheme: Che Gelida Manina - Maurice Sens
35. Carmen: Je Dis Rien Ne M'Epouvante - Sarah Fidelia Solari
36. Robert Le Diable: Nonnes, Qui Reposez - Giuseppe Sorgi
37. Mefistofele: Giunto Sul Passo - Giuseppe Taccani
38. Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Una Voce Poco Fa - Suzanne Vasseur
39. Tannhauser: O Du Mein Holder Abendstern - Friedrich Weidemann
40. La Favorita: O Mio Fernando - Ida Zizolfi

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A Historical (and top-notch) Find.......2000-12-27

In 1912, Thomas Edison hired an agent to make recordings of opera singers to be sent back to Edison for his personal "audition." Several hundred (thousands were made) of these recordings were recently exhumed and make for an amazing listening experience. Although these are acoustic recordings, the sound quality is unsurpassed - the voices crystal clear, smooth, and even with no audible surface noise. All of the singers in this compilation are excellent, with some wonderful surprises coming from several realtively obscure names. A detailed booklet with comprehensive biographical material is included. Until this issue surfaced, very few people besides Edison himself had been able to listen to these treasures - let's hope that more of these gems can be found!

Average customer rating: Rosa Ponselle Prima Voce Avatar or envoy of gods The most ravishing soprano voice. Ever. The richest, most beautiful voice in history! Callas was correct...

Ponselle Prima Voce Manufacturer: Nimbus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Ponchielli | Ponchielli, Amilcare | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ponselle, Rosa | ( P ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Bellini, Vincenzo | A to B | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Ponchielli, Amilcare | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Spontini, Gasparo | Q to T | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Vocal Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | U to Z | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Capua, Eduardo di | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Curtis, Ernesto de | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Ponselle, Rosa | Divas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: Ponselle, Vol. 2 Ponselle, Vol. 3 Galli-Curci: Prima Voce Luisa Tetrazzini, Vol.2 Divas 1906-35 ASIN: B0000037J6 Release Date: 1992-12-02

Tracks:

1. La Gioconda: Suicidio
2. Otello: The Willow Song
3. Otello: Ave Maria
4. Aida: Qui Radames Vera!...O Patria Mia
5. Aida: Pur Ti Riveggo - Rosa Ponselle/Giovanni Martinelli
6. Ernani: Surta E La Notte...Ernani, Involami
7. La Vestale: Tu Che Invoco
8. La Vestale: O Nume Tutelar
9. La Forza Del Destino: Alzatevi...La Vergine Degli Angeli - Rosa Ponselle/Ezio Pinza
10. Norma: Sediziose Voci...Casta Diva
11. Norma: Mira, O Norma
12. Carme
13. Maria, Mari!
14. On Wings Of Dream
15. The Nightingale And The Rose
16. A Perfect Day

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Rosa Ponselle Prima Voce.......2006-03-18

These are old recordings, but great from the standpoint that it is the only way we can hear an almost faithful representation of her great voice.

It is a very fine selection of opera arias.

Albert C. Ruocchio

Avatar or envoy of gods.......2006-02-14

Nasal ringing sound, like one of Caruso, Bechi but better. Frequent intrusions into men's repertoire ('Song of Indian merchant', 'In questa tomba oscura', 'Tre giorni son che Nina', 'Der Tod und das Madchen', etc).
Best singer, best voice.
Early retirement because of higher nasal impedance.

The most ravishing soprano voice. Ever........2005-08-23

Many would argue that this was the most beautiful soprano voice ever - or at least ever recorded. And it's a strong argument. Such richness, such depth, such warmth, such glorious freedom, such security - who else, before or since, can match them. Destinn? A bit blousy. Boninsegna? The voice changes through the passagio. Rethberg? Close, but no cigar. Tebaldi? A bit shrill by comparison. Callas? Dramatic, yes, but beautiful, I don't think so. Gheorgiu? Good by today's standards, but no contest.

No, this thick double-cream stream of tone is something to relish, to sit back and just enjoy. Try her 'Casta Diva' or 'Un bel di' to see how it feels when you approach every high note with joyous anticipation and not with the prospect of a wince (cf. Callas). The Nile aria from Aida is as near perfection as we have any right to expect this side of Opera Heaven - a wondrous piano high C. And on these discs you will also find one of my all-time favourite records - La Vergine degli Angeli from La Forza del Destino where you get, not only Ponselle's wondrous soprano at the top, but also her bass equivalent, Ezio Pinza, below. Two wonderful voices for the price of one.

The Nimbus sound, achieved by recording what actually emerges from the record into a room rather than directly off the shellac, is not to everyone's taste. But it is to mine. It allows the singer's voice to develop and bloom and sound, to my ears, very natural.

The richest, most beautiful voice in history!.......2004-02-10

More beautiful than Caballe and Sutherland combined! A voice like a gleaming red ruby, the greatest lirico spinto of the century. Her Verdi-recordings have found their equals only in Callas' insightful performances but she did not quite possess the creamy, gleaming luxury timbre that Ponselle had. Being reported as one of the biggest voice in history (On occasions she drowned out Titta Ruffo!!!!) she will dazzle you like only Callas could afterwards. She debuted as Leonora in Forza in her teens (I think she was 18) with Caruso as Don Alvaro and made operatic history. Her Gioconda was as legendary as her Giulia (Vestale), repertoire only to be sung by Callas to the same perfection. Her brilliant Aida puts most others to shame, as do both of her Leonoras. Two complete opera-recordings with her exist: La Traviata and Carmen. Get them both and be charmed by the most gorgeous voice in history!

Callas was correct..........2002-11-19

When I read that Maria Callas credited Rosa Ponselle as her vocal idol and only inspiration, the first thought I had was that if a soprano as great as Callas said this, is because it should be true. When I bought this CD I proved the affirmation was correct: you only have to hear Rosa Ponselle's voice and verify that she is one the best sopranos of the century, and why her voice was the inspiration of many Callas's roles, including Norma, La Gioconda and La vestale. The sound quality of this CD is incredible if we consider that the recordings dates from the 1920's

Average customer rating: Like You Just Stepped Into A Salon

Il Sibilo (The Whisper) Manufacturer: Opera Rara UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Donizetti | Donizetti, Gaetano | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Pacini, Giovanni | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rossini | Rossini, Gioacchino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005RT4X Release Date: 2002-02-12

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Like You Just Stepped Into A Salon.......2002-03-10

Opera Rara's Il Salotto series documents the salon music of the 19th century. It's a change from Opera Rara's usual heady fare, and this edition is perhaps the most light-hearted so far. It focuses on music that would have been performed by amateurs and not by the operatic stars that often were invited to the salons of the fabulously wealthy. Of the 32 songs documented here, 27 appeared in a forgotten and short-lived Neapolitan journal "Il Sibilo" from 1843-1845. Every second issue had a song by a well-known composer printed on the back page. Among the composers represented were Donizetti, Pacini, and Mercadante. Other figures such as Cammarano, Lillo, and Crescentini, who are less familiar, were also featured.

Since the songs were printed on a single page, they are very short-only a few of the tracks actually make the two minute mark. They are great fun, and demand very little of the listener. Yet they are not insubstantial as artistic accomplishments. The words and music are invariably clever, and more than one of them has the barbed point of an O. Henry story - witness the charming little melody that accompanies a wish for the singer's ex-lover to choke to death on a morsel of food, or the fervent ode to a woman's beauty that ends with an accusation of frigidity.

The singers approach these little delicacies with such enthusiasm that one can almost close one's eyes and imagine being in a warm, inviting salon surrounded by laughter, animated conversation, and of course, good music. Sopranos Nuccia Focile and Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi sing with grace and beauty while still capturing the light-heartedness and intimacy of these ditties. Paul Charles Clark is a rather whiny tenor of the Maurice Arthur ilk, but his captivating hamminess in his selections more than compensates for what he may lack in vocal beauty. Bass Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, the excellent and strikingly handsome Opera Rara regular, uses his rich and expressive voice to advantage. The pianist, David Harper, who is also featured in the other Salotto releases, continues in this series his tasteful and highly expressive accompaniment of this forgotten fare. He coaxes melodies from the keyboard with sensitivity and emotional intelligence; yet there is genuine humor and a sense of mischievous fun in his playing - which makes him the perfect choice to accompany these tongue-in-cheek pieces.

Jeremy Commons provides detailed and interesting notes, which not only discuss the fascinating history of `Il Sibilo', but also chronicle his own accidental rediscovery of the journal and these very songs in 1972. English translations and commentaries are provided on all the songs. The booklet and box are most luxurious, with beautiful, brilliantly colored art reproductions and vibrant color photography of the recording sessions in progress. Even the CD itself is embossed with the music from one of the Pacini songs. This is a sumptuous release that spares no expense, but you can listen to it in bite-sized morsels or - more likely - to the whole thing in a sitting. And you may find yourself thinking of converting a room in your own home into a salon.

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Tracks:

1. A L'aime (To My Beloved)
2. The Nightingale And The Rose
3. Ernani: Ernani, Involami
4. Otello: Salce, Salce (Willow Song)
5. La Forza Del Destino: Pace, Pace, Mio Dio
6. La Forza Del Destino: Finale: Non Imprecare - Giovanni Martinelli
7. Aida: Ritorna Vincitor
8. Aida: O Patria Mia
9. Carmen-Carmela
10. L'Africana: In Grembo A Me
11. La Vestale: O Nume Tutelar
12. La Gioconda: Suicidio!
13. Norma: Casta Diva
14. Amuri, Amuri
15. Ave Maria
16. When I Have Sung My Songs

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Rosa Ponselle: The Columbia Acoustic Recordings Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Herbert | Herbert, Victor | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Leoncavallo | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Meyerbeer | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Ponchielli | Ponchielli, Amilcare | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rossini | Rossini, Gioacchino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ponselle, Rosa | ( P ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Bellini, Vincenzo | A to B | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Mascagni, Pietro | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Meyerbeer, Giacomo | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Offenbach, Jacques | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Ponchielli, Amilcare | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Puccini, Giacomo | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Rossini, Gioacchino | Q to T | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | Q to T | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Capua, Eduardo di | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Halevy, Fromental | H to L | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Herbert, Victor | H to L | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Ponselle, Rosa | Divas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000WY3 Release Date: 1993-01-21

Tracks:

1. Norma: Casta Diva
2. Ernani: Ernani, Ernani involami
3. I Vespri Siciliani: Merci, dilette amiche
4. Il travatore: Tacea la notte placida
5. Il travatore: D'amour sull'ali rosee
6. Il travatore: Mira d'acerbe lagrime
7. La forza del destino: La vergine degl'angeli
8. La forza del destino: Pace, pace mio Dio
9. Aida: Ritorna vincitor
10. Aida: O patria mia
11. Aida: O terra addio
12. Otello: Ave Maria
13. Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi lo sapete
14. I Pagliacci: Qual fiamma avea nel guardo
15. Maria, Mari
16. O sole mio
17. Goodbye
18. Sadko: Song Of India
19. The Tales Of Hoffman: Barcarolle
20. Blue Danube Waltz

Tracks:

1. Guglielmo Tell: Selva opaca
2. La Juive: Il va venir
3. L'africana: In grembo a me (Figlio del sol)
4. Lohengrin: Einsam in trueben Tagen
5. La Gioconda: Suicidio!
6. Manon Lescaut: In quelle trine morbide
7. La Boheme: Si mi chiamano Mimi
8. TOSCA: Vissi d'arte
9. Madama Butterfly: Un bel di vedremo
10. Manon Lescaut: In quelle trine mobide
11. Rose Of My Heart
12. Where My Caravan Has Rested
13. Comin' Thro' The Rye
14. Little Alabama Coon
15. Old Folks at Home
16. Home, Sweet Home
17. Kiss Me Again
18. Keep The Home Fires Burning
19. Values
20. Rachem
21. Maritana: Scenes That Are Brightest

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Rosa Ponselle: Casta Diva Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Massenet | Massenet, Jules | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ponselle, Rosa | ( P ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Bellini, Vincenzo | A to B | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Gounod, Charles | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Massenet, Jules | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Spontini, Gasparo | Q to T | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Vocal Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | U to Z | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Ponselle, Rosa | Divas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Ponselle Prima Voce ASIN: B000000WQN Release Date: 1996-05-21

Tracks:

1. Norma: Casta Diva che ubargenti ... Ah! bello, a me ritorna
2. Norma: Mira, o norma! ... si, fino all'ore
3. La Vestale: Tu che invoco
4. La Vestale: O nume tutelar
5. Ernani: Surta e la notte ... ernani! ernani! involami
6. La forza del destino: Pace, pace mio dio ... io muojo! ... non imprecare
7. Aida: Ritorna vincitor
8. Elegie
9. Ave maria
10. My Old Kentucky Home
11. Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
12. 'A vucchella
13. Luna d'estate
14. La forza del destino: Pace, pace mio Dio
15. Ernani: Ernani! Ernai! involami

Average customer rating: Fascinating compilation of a forgotten soprano

Rosa Raisa Complete Recordings Manufacturer: Marston ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Boito, Arrigo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Meyerbeer | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Ponchielli | Ponchielli, Amilcare | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000AE0L Release Date: 1998-08-11

Tracks:

1. Andrea Chenier: La Mamma Morta
2. Aida: O Patria Mia
3. L'Africana: In Grembo A Me
4. Aida: Ritorna Vincitor
5. Norma: Casta Diva...Ah, Bello A Me Ritorna
6. Capelli D'Oro
7. Il Trovatore: D'Amor Sull'Ali Rosee
8. Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi Lo Sapete
9. Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi Lo Sapete
10. Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi Lo Sapete
11. Il Trovatore: Timor Di Me...D'Amor Sull'Ali Rosee
12. Eili, Eili
13. La Giogonda: Suicidio
14. Eili, Eili
15. Norma: Casta Diva
16. I Vespri Siciliani: Merce, Dilette Amiche (Bolero)
17. I Vespri Siciliani: Merce, Dilette Amiche (Bolero)
18. Don Giovanni: La Ci Darem La Mano
19. Don Giovanni: La Ci Darem La Mano - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
20. Il Trovatore: Miserere - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
21. La Gioconda: Suicidio - Rosa Raisa/Giulio Crimi

Tracks:

1. Kalinka
2. Night
3. None But The Lonely Heart
4. Otello: Ave Maria
5. Aida: La Fatal Pietra - Rosa Raisa/Giulio Crimi
6. Aida: O Terra Addio - Rosa Raisa/Giulio Crimi
7. Le Crucifix - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
8. La Forza Del Destino: Pace, Pace, Mio Dio
9. La Forza Del Destino: Pace, Pace, Mio Dio
10. Tosca: Vissi D'Arte
11. Tosca: Vissi D'Arte
12. Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi Lo Sapete
13. La Paloma
14. Aida: Ritorna Vincitor
15. Aida: O Patria Mia
16. Il Trovatore: Miserere - Rosa Raisa/Armand Tokatyan
17. Il Trovatore: Mira D'Acerbe Lagrime - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
18. Mefistofele: L'Altra Notte
19. Madama Butterfly: Un Bel Di Vedremo
20. Ernani: Surta E La Notte...Ernani! Ernani, Involami

Tracks:

1. Cavalleria Rusticana: Turridu Mi Tolse L'Onore - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
2. Il Trovatore: Mira D'Acerbe Lagrime - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
3. Don Giovanni: La Ci Darem La Mano - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
4. Il Flauto Magico: La Dove Prende - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
5. Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi Lo Sapete
6. Ernani: Ernani! Ernani, Involami
7. Norma: Ah, Bello A Me Ritorna
8. Tosca: Vissi D'Arte
9. Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi Lo Sapete
10. La Gioconda: Suicidio
11. Andrea Chenier: La Mamma Morta
12. Il Trovatore: Mira D'Acerbe Lagrime - Rosa Raisa/Giacomo Rimini
13. Plaisir D'Amour
14. La Paloma
15. Excerpts From A Rosa Raisa Interview With Studs Terkel - Rosa Raisa/Studs Terkel

Customer Reviews:

Fascinating compilation of a forgotten soprano.......2002-06-11

In the 1920s, there were two "Rosas" in the world of opera: Rosa Ponselle and Rosa Raisa. They sang many of the same roles, and were generally considered among the best dramatic sopranos of their time. Since then, not a year goes by without some Opera News tribute to Rosa Ponselle, while Rosa Raisa up until now has been largely forgotten. Now, thanks to Ward Marston's 3 CD set and Charles Mintzer's biography, we are 'rediscovering' the woman who created Puccini's Turandot.
Raisa refused to listen to her own recordings, saying they did not do her justice. And they probably did not. From all accounts hers was a gigantic, somewhat undisciplined voice (although flexible enough to sing Norma and other bel canto roles) and, like Leontyne Price's voice, it was an 'inverted triangle' -- strong on top and weaker on bottom. We can hear this in her records -- huge high C's that are not recorded very well, but the bottom is often unattractively hollow, with many glottal gulps, with some old-fashioned chest voice often thrown in. Raisa never attached herself to a major recording company until late in life, and her first recordings for Pathe are a real trial to listen to. One wonders if she had a Victor contract whether her voice would have sounded better. Surprisingly for a woman known more for vocal opulence than acting ability, the sound of the voice itself is often rather bland -- slightly nasal and not all that memorable. Raisa was born Jewish and people have commented that it was a 'semitic' voice -- it does seem to lack the warmth and vibrancy of, say, Claudia Muzio's instrument.
So why listen to her at all? For one, there are several tracks which are truly spectacular and show what the fuss was all about. Her rendition of the Bolero from "I Vespri" is one of those moments. Raisa was also well-schooled in the bel canto tradition -- she had an excellent trill and in 'Ah bello a mi ritorna" (she records both verses) the runs in the very embellished second verse are both flamboyant and very accurate. Unlike Rosa Ponselle, whose recordings are all very similar -- absolutely vocally magnificent -- Raisa is one of those singers where one must 'dig' for treasures. She ranges from astonishing to mediocre to frankly awful. She was known as a somewhat variable performer, and this quality might have translated to the studio too. Listen to an awkward "O patria mia" where she is both flat and wiry on her high C, and you might wonder what the fuss is all about. Listen to a beautifully sung, expressive "La altra notte" and there is no doubt that when Raisa was on, she was truly one of the greatest singers of her time.
The third cd is 'filled out' with an extended interview with the aged diva, where she sounds down-to-earth and fun, with none of the bitterness and hauteur one would associate with an aged "Norma Desmond."

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