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Il pirata / Bellini.

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.
Contributor:
Romani, Felice, 1788-1865, librettist.
Callas, Maria, 1923-1977, performer.
Ego, Costantino, performer.
Ferraro, Pier Miranda, performer.
Peterson, Glade, performer.
Watson, Chester, performer.
Sarfaty, Regina, performer.
Rescigno, Nicola, conductor.
American Opera Society, performer.
Concertgebouworkest, performer.
Standardized Title:
Pirata
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Operas.
Physical Description:
2 audio discs (approximately 134 min.) : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.
4 3/4 in.
Place of Publication:
New York : EMI Classics, [1997]
Language Note:
Sung in Italian.
System Details:
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
mono
digital recording
Participant:
Maria Callas as Imogene ; Costantino Ego as Ernesto ; Piero Mirando Ferraro as Gualtiero ; Glade Peterson as Itulbo ; Chester Watson as Goffredo (Solitario) ; Regina Sarfaty as Adele ; Orchestra and Chorus of the American Opera Society ; Concertgebouw Orchestra (2nd version of final scene) ; Nicola Rescigno, conductor.
Notes:
EMI Classics: 7243 5 66432 2 2 (7243 5 66433 2 1; 7243 5 66434 2 0); CDMB 7243 5 66432 2 2 (outer container).
Opera in 2 acts.
Libretto by Felice Romani.
Recorded live on Jan. 27, 1959 at Carnegie Hall, New York, and July 2, 1959 in Amsterdam.
Final scene included a 2nd time in a version for soprano and orchestra, without the chorus.
Compact discs.
Analog recording; digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Allan Ramsay.
Durations: 66:29; 67:52.
Program notes by John Steane and Michel Parouty with translation by Hugh Graham; synopsis in English by George Hall; libretto in Italian with English translation by Gwyn Morris (65 p. : ill.) laid in container.
OCLC:
39792389
Publisher Number:
2435664322
7243 5 66432 2 2 EMI Classics (set)
7243 5 66433 2 1 EMI Classics (disc 1)
7243 5 66434 2 0 EMI Classics (disc 2)
CDMB 7243 5 66432 2 2 EMI Classics

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