Puccini: Le Villi

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Release Date: 15th Jul 2016
Catalogue No: 88985333682
Label: Sony
Series: Sony Classical Opera
Length: 64 minutes

Puccini: Le Villi

Work length1:04:08

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National Philharmonic Orchestra, Plácido Domingo (tenor), Leo Nucci (bass), Renata Scotto (soprano), Tito Gobbi (tenor)
London National Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers
Lorin Maazel

Preludio

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Act I - Evviva! Evviva! Evviva!

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Act I - Se come voi piccina io fossi... Non ti scordar di me!

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Act I - Non esser, Anna mia, mesta sì tanto... Tu dell'infanzia mia

Track length5:27

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Act I - Presto! Presto in viaggio!... Angiol di Dio

Track length7:34

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Act I - L'Abbandono

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Act I - La Tregenda

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Act II - No, possibil non è... Anima santa della figlia mia

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Act II - Ei giunge!... Torna ai felici dì

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Act II - Cammina! Cammina! Cammina!... Ricordi quel che dicevi

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Two works by Giacomo Puccini are included in this new batch of reissues. Though still under the influence earlier composers, French as well as Italian, the 24-year-old Puccini was already being hailed as Verdi’s successor – including by Verdi himself – after he produced his first opera, LE VILLI, in 1883. Encapsulating a tragic love affair within an hour, the piece ends with the ghost of the jilted heroine and the other Willis enticing her remorseful lover into a dance of death. When the present 1979 recording conducted by Lorin Maazel and starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo and Leo Nucci was released, Gramophone’s reviewer was full of enthusiasm: “Maazel is excellent in drawing out the individuality of the soloists … The ease and assurance of Scotto, Domingo and Nucci here, as well as their vocal richness, transforms each Puccinian melody. This is one of the richest and warmest performances I have heard from [Scotto] for some time, while Domingo as Roberto, rich and firm, manages to bring out the attractive anticipations of Des Grieux's music in Manon Lescaut. The recording … is spaciously atmospheric.”

Puccini: Le Villi

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