#Fiorenza Cossotto

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MARIO del MONACO ne BELLINI: Norma, con María Callas, Giulietta Simionato e ne BERLIOZ: I Troiani con Fiorenza Cossotto ALT.

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CARLO BERGONZI e FIORENZA COSSOTTO nel Capolavoro VERDIANO *Il Trovatore* 1966

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IL TROVATORE 3/5: AZUCENA

IL TROVATORE 3/5: AZUCENA

Avui tenim 39 Azucenes, que no és poc i que suposen un repte emocionant perquè aquest és per mi i malgrat la popularitat del rol del tenor i la seva malaltissa cabaletta, el personatge cabdal d’Il Trovatore, tant pel que significa en la vocalitat verdiana, el primer gran rol per a mezzosoprano, i l’única mare rellevant per aquesta tipologia vocal, ja que l’altre seria l’Alice,però va estar escrit…

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube 5

Nabucco

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Renato Bruson, Ghena Dimitrova; conducted by Riccardo Muti; no subtitles)

Teatro di San Carlo, 1997 (Renato Bruson, Lauren Flanigan; conducted by Paolo Carognani; no subtitles)

Ankara State Opera, 2006 (Eralp Kıyıcı, Nilgün Akkerman; conducted by Sunay Muratov; no subtitles)

St. Margarethen Opera Festival, 2007 (Igor Morosow, Gabriella Morigi; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Rome Opera, 2011 (Leo Nucci, Csilla Boross; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English and German subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 2013 (Vladimir Stoyanov, Anna Pirozzi; conducted by Michele Mariotti; Italian subtitles)

Rome Opera, 2013 (Luca Salsi, Tatiana Serjan; conducted by Riccardo Muti; no subtitles)

Gran Teatro Nacional, Perú, 2015 (Giuseppe Altomare, Rachele Stanisci; conducted by Fernando Valcárcel; Spanish subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 2017 (Plácido Domingo, Liudmyla Monastyrska; conducted by James Levine; Spanish subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2017 (George Gagnidze, Susanna Branchini; conducted by Daniel Oren; English subtitles)

La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1981 (Frederica von Stade, Francisco Araiza, Paolo Montarsolo; conducted by Claudio Abbado; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1983 (Kathleen Kuhlmann, Laurence Dale, Claudio Desderi; conducted by Donato Renzetti; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1988 (Ann Murray, Francisco Araiza, Walter Berry; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; English subtitles)

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1991 (Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Toshiro Gorobe, Domenico Trimarchi; conducted by Antonello Allemandi; Japanese subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Houston Grand Opera, 1995 (Cecilia Bartoli, Raúl Giménez, Enzo Dara; conducted by Bruno Campanella; no subtitles)

Rossini Opera Festival, 2000 (Sonia Ganassi, Juan Diego Flórez, Bruno Praticó; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; Italian subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2008 (Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Bruno de Simone; conducted by Patrick Summers; German subtitles)

Romeo Opera, 2015 (Serena Malfi, Juan Francisco Gatell, Alessandro Corbelli; conducted by Alejo Pérez; Italian and English subtitles)

Lille Opera, 2016 (Emily Fons, Taylor Stayton, Renato Girolami; conducted by Yves Parmentier; English subtitles)

Boboli Gardens, Florence, 2020 (Svetlina Stoyanova, Josh Lovell, Daniel Miroslaw; conducted by Sándor Károlyi; no subtitles)

Lucia di Lammermoor

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1967 (Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Mario Lanfranchi film, 1971 (Anna Moffo, Lajos Kosma; conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario; English subtitles)

Bregenz Festival, 1982 (Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras; conducted by Lamberto Gardelli; no subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Opera Australia, 1986 (Joan Sutherland, Richard Greager; conducted by Richard Bonynge; English subtitles)

Teatro Carlo Felice, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Marcelo Álvarez; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; Japanese subtitles)

San Francisco Opera, 2009 (Natalie Dessay, Giuseppe Filianoti; conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce; English subtitles)

Amarillo Opera, 2013 (Hanan Alattar, Eric Barry; conducted by Michael Ching; English subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2015 (Elena Mosuc, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Marco Armiliato; French subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2018 (Lisette Oropesa, Javier Camerana; conducted by Daniel Oren; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2022 (Lisette Oropesa, Benjamin Bernheim; conducted by Evelino Pidó; English subtitles)

Il Trovatore

Claudio Fino studio film, 1957 (Mario del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Fedora Barbieri, Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Fernando Previtali; English subtitles)

Wolfgang Nagel studio film, 1975 (Franco Bonisolli, Raina Kabaivanska, Viorica Cortez, Giorgio Zancanaro; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Japanese subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Plácido Domingo, Raina Kabaivanska, Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1983 (Kenneth Collins, Joan Sutherland, Lauris Elms, Jonathan Summers; conducted by Richard Bonynge, English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1988 (Luciano Pavarotti, Eva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 2013 (Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Elena Manistinta, Alexey Markov; conducted by Paolo Carignani; English subtitles)

Temporada Lirica a Coruña, 2015 (Gregory Kunde, Angela Meade, Marianne Cornetti, Juan Jesús Rodriguez; conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson; no subtitles)

Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liége, 2018 (Fabio Sartori, Yolanda Auyanet, Violeta Urmana, Mario Cassi; conducted by Daniel Oren; French subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2019 (Yusif Eyvazov, Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Luca Salsi; conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi; German subtitles)

Teatro Verdi di Pisa, 2021 (Murat Karahan, Carolina López Moreno, Victória Pitts, Cesar Méndez; conducted by Marco Guidarini; no subtitles)

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Sara Scuderi (left) as Anne Boleyn in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, along with Plinio Clabassi as Henry VIII and Fiorenza Cossotto as Jane Seymour (1947)

[tenorissimi]

FRANCO CORELLI in

GIORDANO'S Andrea Chenier with MARÍA CALLAS, 1957. Copyright ©️ Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

PUCCINI'S Tosca with MARÍA CALLAS & Tito Gobbi, MET NY 🇺🇸, 1965. Copyright ©️ Metropolitan Opera House NY.

VERDI'S Aida with Gabriella Tucci & Aldo Protti (?).

VERDI'S Aida with Anna María Rovere.

VERDI'S Il Trovatore with Fiorenza Cossotto. Copyright ©️ Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

VERDI'S Il Trovatore with Leyla Gencer. Copyright ©️ Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

VERDI'S Il Trovatore as Manrico. Copyright ©️ Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

CILEA'S Andrea Chenier with Antonietta Stella & Mario Sereni. Copyright ©️ EMI Angel Records.

Andrea Chenier & Il Trovatore with Antonietta Stella. Collage & Edition: Luz Butron Soprano.

VERDI'S Il Trovatore as Manrico. Copyright ©️ Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

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COLIN MIDDLETON MBE RHA RUA (1910-1983)

TIERRA DEL FUEGO: THE WILDERNESS OF FIORENZA COSSOTTO, 1972-74

Whytes

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Fiorenza Cossotto como Amneris en AIDA de Giuseppe Verdi.

Treinta y tres segundos de gloria.

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Il flauto magico raccontato da Paolo Menconi, Pan di Lettere Edizioni

Il Flauto magico di Mozart: il nuovo libro di Paolo Menconi per avvicinare i bambini all’Opera lirica. “Il Flauto magico di Mozart” raccontato ai bambini da Paolo Menconi, e presentato dalla nota soprano Fiorenza Cossotto, con le splendide illustrazioni di Fabiana Castellani. La storia appassionante del capolavoro di Mozart raccontato nel nuovo libro di Paolo Menconi edito dalla Casa Editrice…

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Amilcare Ponchielli, La Gioconda: Quest’ultimo bacio

Maria Callas, Soprano Pier Miranda Ferraro, Tenor Fiorenza Cossotto, Mezzo-soprano Antonino Votto, Conductor Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano 1959

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in recognition of tonight's Met stream, my favorite performance of my favorite scene from Adriana Lecouvreur!

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Il principe Gualtiero vostro padre / Nel silenzio di quei raccoglimenti from Puccini’s Suor Angelica sung by Fiorenza Cossotto and Katia Ricciarelli

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Meyerbeer: GRAND OPERA with Diana Damrau

Diana Damrau, Meyerbeer: Grand Opera

This glorious new album finds Diana Damrau in sparkling, top-notch form. The exacting demands that Meyerbeer makes on the soprano voice are shrugged off by a diva in her prime.

Meyerbeer was German (Prussian) by birth, French by adoption, and Italian by formation; a true European. Born Jacob Liebmann Meyer Beer, his first name became ‘Giacomo’ during his years in Italy, where he headed on the advice of Salieri after the poor reception in Germany and Vienna of his first two operas. Inspired by the music of Rossini – six months his junior – he embarked on a string of seven operas in Italian during the ten-years he lived there. The last of these was Il crociato in Egitto, which premiered in Venice in 1824. A year later it was performed in Paris, and the city opened its doors to him. His first French opera was premiered in Paris in 1831, and it launched him into the opera stratosphere: Robert le diable, his first ‘grand opéra’.

Until his death in 1864 he remained wildly popular. So popular and so wealthy as to rub his contemporaries up the wrong way; Wagner said he was “a Jewish banker to whom it occurred to compose operas”. Meyerbeer’s operas on a grand scale gradually fell out of fashion in the latter part of the 1800s, and were hardly performed at all during the first half of the 20th century. The cost of large casts, the difficulty of Meyerbeer’s virtuoso writing, and the banning of the Jewish composer in Nazi Germany and other countries, all effected their popularity. A 1962 production of Les Huguenots at La Scala (with Joan Sutherland, Franco Corelli, Giulietta Simionato, Fiorenza Cossotto and Nicolai Ghiaurov… Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting!) jump-started a revival and, together with Robert le diable, Le prophète, and L’Africaine, Meyerbeer’s grand operas are now to be found in in opera seasons the world over.

Diana Damrau by Jürgen Frank

Diana Damrau by Jürgen Frank

Diana Damrau by Jürgen Frank

Diana Damrau by Jürgen Frank

Damrau has been interested in Meyerbeer’s music since performing in his cantata Gli amori di Teolinda as a student, and the idea for an entire disc dedicated to his arias has been on her mind for a decade.

Erato has treated her nobly with this album, Meyerbeer: Grand Opera, a recording featuring the Lyon National Opera Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of Emmanuel Villaume, together with soloists Kate Aldrich, Charles Workman and Laurent Naouri, which gives the excerpts their due importance. The 82-minute album was recorded in the summer of 2015.

Ten operas are represented, including the big four. Arias from his early opera Alimelek, oder die beiden Kalifen and a Singspiel from his later period called Ein Feldlager in Schlesien, have both been recorded for the first time.

Maybe the best-known aria included here is ‘Ô beau pays de la Touraine’ from Les Huguenots, and even if it is impossible to cut the umbilical cord with Sutherland, Damrau makes it her own. She doesn’t have Sutherland’s warm top notes (who does?) but she gives more weight to the text both in clarity and interpretation.

Two operas written for the Opéra-Comique in Paris – L’étoile du nord and Le pardon de Ploërmel (known as Dinorah from when it was translated into Italian for its premiere Covent Garden) – allow Damrau to fire off her coloratura big guns, which she does with dazzling aplomb. However, she intelligently chooses to conclude not with vocal fireworks, but with the seductive, forlorn lyricism of ‘Adieu, mon doux rivage’, an aria often cut, from Meyerbeer’s last opera, L’Africaine.

A few months before he died, Meyerbeer wrote a prayer: “Preserve my artistic creativity.. and ennoble my artistic fame,” he asked. Diana Damrau has done something towards answering that prayer.

  Meyerbeer: GRAND OPERA on Erato (5 May 2017)

LE PROPHÈTE (1849): Mon coeur s’élance et palpite Berthe 4:05 ROBERT LE DIABLE (1831): Robert, toi que j’aime Isabelle 5:52 Robert: Charles Workman tenor ALIMELEK, ODER: DIE BEIDEN KALIFEN (1814) Nur in der Dämm’rung Stille Irene 6:17*** L’ÉTOILE DU NORD (1854) Ah, mon Dieu !… C’est bien l’air que chaque matin Catherine 6:58 L’AFRICAINE (1865) Là-bas, sous l’arbre noir… Fleurs nouvelles Inès 5:34 IL CROCIATO IN EGITTO (1824) D’una madre disperata…Con qual gioia Palmide 9:20 Aladino: Laurent Naouri bass LE PARDON DE PLOËRMEL (1859) (DINORAH) Comme cette nuit est lente à se dissiper !… Ombre légère Dinorah 8:20 EIN FELDLAGER IN SCHLESIEN (1844) Oh Schwester, find’ ich dich!… Lebe wohl, geliebte Schwester Therese 6:53 Vielka: Kate Aldrich mezzo-soprano*** EMMA DI RESBURGO (1819) Sulla rupe triste, sola…Ah questo bacio Emma 6:38 LES HUGUENOTS (1836) Ô beau pays de la Touraine Marguerite 12:55 Urbain: Pei Min Yu soprano Coryphée: Pascale Obrecht soprano Dame d’honneur: Joanna Curelaru Kata mezzo-soprano L’AFRICAINE (1865) Anna, qu’entends-je…“Adieu, mon doux rivage” Inès 8:34 Anna: Kate Aldrich mezzo-soprano

***World premiere recording

CD review: Diana Damrau in Meyerbeer’s Grand Operas – a diva in her prime Meyerbeer: GRAND OPERA with Diana Damrau This glorious new album finds Diana Damrau in sparkling, top-notch form.

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Opera on Youtube 4

L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love)

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 1967 (Carlo Bergonzi, Renata Scotto; conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni; no subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1981 (Luciano Pavarotti, Judith Blegen; conducted by Nicola Rescigno; Spanish subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Metropolitan Opera, 1991 (Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Vienna State Opera, 2005 (Rolando Villazón, Anna Netrebko; conducted by Alfred Eschwé; English subtitles)

Theatro da Paz, Brazil, 2013 (Atalla Ayan, Carmen Monarcha; conducted by Emiliano Patarra; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro Manoel, Malta, 2015 (Cliff Zammit Stevens, Shoushik Barsoumian; conducted by Philip Walsh; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Dmitry Korchak, Olga Peretyatko; conducted by Marco Armiliato; no subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Ópera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 2017 (Ramón Vargas, Olivia Gorra; conducted by Guido Maria Guida; Spanish subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2018 (Benjamin Bernheim, Andrea Carroll; conducted by Frédéric Chaslin; no subtitles)

San Francisco Opera, 2023 (Pene Pati, Slávka Zámečníková; conducted by Ramón Tebar; English subtitles)

Hänsel & Gretel

Vittorio Cottafavi studio film, 1957 (Fiorenza Cossotto, Jan Poleri; conducted by Nino Sanzogno; sung in Italian with Italian subtitles)

August Everding studio film, 1981 (Brigitte Fassbaender, Edita Gruberova; conducted by Georg Solti; English subtitles)

Leipzig Opera, 1981 (Annelott Damm, Steffi Ullmann; conducted by Horst Gurgel; no subtitles)

Julliard Opera Center, 1997 (Jennifer Marquette, Sari Gruber; conducted by Randall Behr; English subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1992 (Suzanne Johnston, Christine Douglas; conducted by Johannes Fritzsch; sung in English)

Vienna State Opera, 2015 (Daniel Sindram, Ileana Tonca; conducted by Christian Thielmann; English subtitles)

Pacific Northwest Opera, 2015 (Sylvia Szadovszki, Ksenia Popova; conducted by Clinton Smith; sung in English with English subtitles)

Scottish Opera, 2020 (Kitty Whately, Rhian Lois; conducted by David Parry; sung in English with English subtitles)

Eklund Opera Program, 2020 (Christine Lee, Anna Whiteway; conducted by Nicholas Carthy; sung in English with English subtitles)

Amarillo Opera, 2021 (Sarah Beckham-Turner, Patricia Westley; conducted by Carolyn Watson; English subtitles)

Turandot

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1958 (Lucilla Udovick, Franco Corelli; conducted by Fernando Previtali; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1983 (Eva Marton, José Carreras; conducted by Lorin Maazel; no subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1986 (Gwyneth Jones, Franco Bonisolli; conducted by Jacques Delacote; English subtitles)

Forbidden City, Beijing, 1998 (Giovanna Casolla, Sergej Larin; conducted by Zubin Mehta; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala; 2001 (Alessandra Marc, Nicola Martinucci; conducted by Georges Prêtre; French subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2009 (Anna Shafajinskaia, Fabio Armiliato; conducted by Giuliano Carella; English subtitles)

Chorégies d'Orange 2012 (Lise Lindstrom, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Michel Plasson; French subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2015 (Zvetelina Vassileva, Ricardo Tamura; conducted by Martin Mazik; no subtitles)

Teatro de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 2017 (Gabriela Georgieva, Carlos Galván; conducted by Enrique Patrón de Rueda; Spanish subtitles)

Opera Hong Kong, 2018 (Oksana Dyka, Alfred Kim; conducted by Paolo Olmi; English subtitles)

Eugene Onegin

Prince Regent Theatre, Munich, 1965 (Hermann Prey, Ingeborg Bremert; conducted by Joseph Keilberth; sung in German; no subtitles)

Paris Opera, 1982 (Benjamin Luxon, Galina Vishnevskaya; conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich; French subtitles)

Kirov Opera, 1984 (Sergei Leiferkus, Tatiana Novikova; conducted by Yuri Temirkanov; English subtitles)

Chicago Lyric Opera, 1985 (Wolfgang Brendel, Mirella Freni; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Spanish subtitles)

Petr Weigl film, 1988 (Michal Docolomanský dubbed by Bernd Weikl, Magda Vásáryová dubbed by Teresa Kubiak; conducted by Georg Solti; English subtitles)

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, 1998 (Vladimir Glushchak, Orla Boylan; conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky; English subtitles) – Act I, Act II, Act III

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 2011 (Artur Rucinski, Kristine Opolais; conducted by Omer Meir Wellber; no subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 2014 (Artur Rucinski, Amanda Echalaz; conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov; English subtitles)

Mariinsky Theatre, 2015 (Andrei Bondarenko, Yekaterina Goncharova; conducted by Valery Gergiev; French subtitles)

Livermore Valley Opera, 2019 (Morgan Smith, Antonina Chehovska; conducted by Alex Katsman; English subtitles)

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Losing my entire mind over these pictures of Renata Tebaldi as Desdemona and Fiorenza Cossotto as Amneris

(tumblr fucked with the quality but it’s not like it was high in the first place lmao)