O Mio Babbino Caro: Famous Soprano Arias From Italian Opera

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Cat No: 8555796

Release Date: 09 January 2001

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 747313579624

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: O mio babbino caro

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Famous Soprano Arias from Italian OperaThe present collection of soprano arias from Italian opera takes its general title from a popular aria in Giacomo Puccini’s 1918 Gianni Schicchi, part of a trilogy of contrasting short operas first staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Based on an episode in Dante’s Inferno, it deals with the frustration of attempts by the relatives of Buoso Donati to effect a posthumous alteration of his will in their favour by allowing the rogue Gianni Schicchi to impersonate him. His impersonation is successful enough to allow him to make himself Buoso Donati’s heir. His daughter Lauretta, in O mio babbino caro ('My dear father'), pleads with her father to intervene in the affairs of Buoso Donati’s relatives and her new dowry finally enables her to marry Rinuccio, nephew of a cousin of the dead man.Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani ('The Puritans') was first staged in Paris in 1835 and was the composer’s last opera. Set in the period of the English Civil War, the opera, with a surprisingly happy ending, treats the problems faced by the cavalier Lord Arturo Talbo, in love with Elvira, daughter of the Puritan Lord Walton. Arturo helps the disguised Queen, widow of Charles I, to escape, disguised in Elvira’s bridal veil. Apparently deserted by her new husband, Elvira goes mad and in Qui la voce soave ('Here the tender voice') imagines she hears the voice of Arturo. Eventually Arturo is taken prisoner and able to explain matters to Elvira, now restored to a measure of sanity, while he finally benefits from a general amnesty declared by the victorious Cromwell.La bohème is one of the most romantic of all operas. A group of young artists lives in poverty in a garret in the Latin quarter of Paris. There the poet Rodolfo meets their neighbour, the little seamstress Lucia, known to her fiends, as she explains at their first meeting, as Mimi, Sì, mi chiamano Mimì ('They call me Mimi'), when she comes to seek a light for her candle. Their love founders, however, in subsequent privation and they are only finally re-united when Mimi is dying of consumption. Musetta, in contrast to Mimi, is a stronger character and in the second act of the opera, set outside a neighbouring café, accompanied by her elderly admirer, she outlines her own charms in a waltz-song, Quando m’en vo (When I go alone along the street, people stop and look at me), aiming her remarks at her former lover Marcello, the painter friend of Rodolfo. Puccini’s opera was first staged in Turin in 1896.Alfredo Catalani is best remembered for his 1892 opera La Wally. In a Tyrolean village the heroine of the title refuses to marry the man her father has chosen for her, preferring, instead, the young huntsman Haghenbach. Misunderstandings arise between them, as the story unwinds, and in jealousy she seeks to have Haghenbach killed, before relenting and saving him from the ravine where he has been prope
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