Favourite Soprano Arias

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Cat No: 8550605

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4891030506053

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: FAVOURITE SOPRANO ARIAS

Description
Soprano Operatic Arias Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 into a family ofmusicians. His first opera, Le Villi, won Verdi's approval, but it was with ManonLescaut, in 1893, some ten years later, that he won signal sucress. Therefollowed La Boheme in 1896, Tosca and Madama Butterfly, in a successful careerthat ended with Turandot, an opera that he started in 1921 but was unable tocomplete before his death in 1924. Turandot, based on an eighteenth centurydrama by Gozzi, deals with the story of the Chinese Princess of the title, whoproposes riddles to her suitors, the penalty for failure to find a solutionearning immediate execution. Calaf, son of the exiled King of Tartary, in spiteof the persuasive insistence of the slave-girl Liu, who urges him to give upthe attempt in her aria Signore, ascolta (Sir, listen), answers Turandot'sriddles, but agrees to release her if she can discover his name. This she endeavoursto accomplish by torturing Calat's loyal slave-girl Liu, who remains faithfulto her beloved master, addressing Turandot in the aria Tu che di gel sei cinta(You, who are girdled with ire). At the end of the aria, which comes at theemotional climax of the opera, Liu seizes a dagger and stabs herself. All endsapparently happily forCalaf and Turandot, when the latter finally understandsthe meaning of true love. The short opera Gianni Schicchi forms part of II trittico,The Triptych, a group of three operas, first staged at the Metropolitan Operain New York in 1918.Gianni Schicchi is called in by the family of therecently dereased Buoso Donati, who has left all his money to a monastery.Gianni Schiochi impersonates the dead man and dictates a new will in which heleaves everything to himself, except the house, which he bequeathes to Buoso's nephewRinucdo, the lover of his daughter Lauretta, whose lack of dowry has earliermade the match impossible. She first pleads with Gianni Schiochi for help inthe aria O mio babbino caro (O my beloved daddy). The dominant figure in Italian opera in the second halfof the nineteenth century was Giuseppe Verdi, a man of humble origins, whoestablished his reputation first with the opera Nabucco in 1842. Rigoletto,based on Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse was first staged in Venire in 1851. Itdeals with the seduction of Gilda, daughter of the court jester Rigoletto, bythe Duke of Mantua, and Rigoletto's search for vengeance, which ends in thedeath of his daughter, murdered in place of her seducer. Gilda, wooed at firstby the Duke disguised as a student, is abducted and dishonoured, with the helpof her father's courtier enemies In Tutte le feste al tempio (On every festivalmorning) she tells Rigoletto what has happened, how the Duke in disguisecourted her and how he has now brought disgrace on her and her father. Bellini enjoyed a brief career but exercised considerableinfluence over contemporaries and sucressors not only in the field of opera. LaSonnambula, The Sleepwalker, was first performed at the Teat
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