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L'assedio di Corinto / Gioachino Rossini.

Met Opera on Demand Available online

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868, composer, composer.
Contributor:
Sills, Beverly, performer, performer.
Verrett, Shirley, performer, performer.
Theyard, Harry, performer, performer.
Díaz, Justino, performer, performer.
Schippers, Thomas, conductor, conductor.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.
Standardized Title:
Siège de Corinthe. Italian
Language:
French
Italian
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
Live sound recordings.
New York (State)--New York.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Operas.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (2 hr., 33 min., 44 sec.))
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1975]
Language Note:
Sung in Italian; translated from the French.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
audio file streaming audio file
Summary:
A few weeks before this performance, Beverly Sills made her Met debut in this all-but-unknown Rossini opera. As one critic explained, "The arias are vocal extravaganzas that would terrorize all but a few singers today." But as Pamira, the young Greek woman who loves the Turkish leader, Maometto (Justino Díaz), who conquers Corinth with tragic consequences, Sills herself was really the conquering hero. "Perfectly phrased abandon," was one description of her singing, and the audience simply went berserk. Shirley Verrett co-stars in the pants role of Neocle, the young Greek captain who has been promised Pamira in marriage.
Contents:
Sinfonia
Signor, un sol tuo cenno
Del vincitor superbo
In così reo periglio
Tua figlia m'è promessa
Destin terribile!
Oh ciel!
Di morte il suon mandò
Dal ferro del forte
Duce di tanti di tanti eroi
Trionfammo, Signor
Ah! Ritrovo l'amante
Pamira mi sei resa
L'alma che geme non ha più speme
Cielo! Che diverrò?
Dal soggiorno degli estinti le mie preci
Ah! che spiegar non posso
Sgombra il timor
Che vedo?
Potrei lasciar che l'alma gustasse amor e calma
Vinci, Pamira
Divin Profeta
Pamira
Questo altar
Sian tolti a lui quei ferri
O sol di chi t'adora
Corinto in suon di sdegno
All'armi, all'armi strage
Avanziam
Questo è il luogo
Non temer d'un basso
Del periglio al fiero aspetto
Signor, che tutto puoi
Oh come al cor soavi
Pria svenar con ferme ciglia
Tu che tanto orgoglio
O mio Cleomene!
Celeste providenza
Tutto percorsi il marzial recinto
Nube di sangue intrisa
Questo nome, che suona vittoria
L'ora fatal s'appressa
Guisto ciel!
Vittoria
Parmi vederlo
Ma qual mai suona.
Participant:
Beverly Sills ; Shirley Verrett ; Harry Theyard ; Justino Díaz ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor.
Notes:
Recorded live in 1975 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Duration: 2 hr., 33 min., 44 sec.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859396685
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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