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Macbeth / Giuseppe Verdi.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901, Composer.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
- Live sound recordings.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (2 hr., 29 min., 15 sec.))
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1984]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian.
- System Details:
- digital
- audio file streaming audio file
- Summary:
- Based on one of the Bard's eeriest plays, Verdi's grim tragedy Macbeth has long courted scandal at the Met. The work first arrived on the company's stage in 1959, in a production that was to serve as a star vehicle for Maria Callas. But when the celebrated diva was infamously fired by General Manager Rudolf Bing before rehearsals began, soprano Leonie Rysanek was called upon to make her debut as Lady Macbeth instead. Over the next two decades, the work was revived regularly, until in 1982, when an experimental production by Sir Peter Hall ignited renewed controversy. It was during a performance of this same staging six years later that a terminally-ill audience member took his own life by leaping from the Balcony at intermission. The opera then disappeared from the repertory for 19 years, only returning with the premiere of the current production by Adrian Noble. In this hair-raising 1984 performance, an extraordinary ensemble leads a memorable matinee radio broadcast. Legendary artists Sherrill Milnes and Renata Scotto triumph as the murderous Macbeths, alongside bass Paul Plishka as Banquo and tenor Giuliano Ciannella as Macduff. James Levine takes the podium to conduct one of opera's darkest masterpieces.
- Contents:
- Prelude
- Che faceste? Dite su!
- Giorno non vidi mai sì fiero e bello!
- Due vaticini compiuti or sono
- S' allontanarono!
- Nel dì della vittoria io le incontrai...
- Vieni! t'affretta!
- Oh donna mia!
- Sappia la sposa mia
- Fatal mia donna!
- Di destarlo per tempo il re m'impose
- Schiudi, inferno, la bocca ed inghiotti
- Perchè mi sfuggi
- La luce langue
- Chi v'impose unirvi a noi?
- Studia il passo
- Come dal ciel precipita
- Salve, o Re!
- Si colmi il calice di vibo eletto
- Voi siete demente!
- Sangue a me quell'ombra chiede
- Tre volte miagola la gatta in fregola
- Ballo - Allegro vivacissimo
- Finchè appelli, silenti m'attendete
- Qual concento! Parlate!
- Ondine e silfidi, dall'ali candide
- Ove son io?
- Patria oppressa!
- O figli
- Ah, la paterna mano
- Dove siam? che bosco è quello?
- Vegliammo invan due notti
- Una macchia è qui tuttora
- Perfidi! All'Anglo contro me v'unite
- Pietà, rispetto, amore
- È morta
- Mal per me che m'affidai
- Macbeth, Macbeth ov'è?
- Participant:
- Renata Scotto, Giuliano Ciannella, Sherrill Milnes, Paul Plishka ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded live 1984 the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Duration: 2 hr., 29 min., 15 sec.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 1365390250
- Publisher Number:
- USY3P1903940
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- 810004201767
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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