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Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta – Verdi: La forza del destino (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:56:46 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Classical
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Giuseppe Verdi travelled to St Petersburg in 1862 to premiere La forza del destino, which had been commissioned by the city’s Imperial Theatre. The source material appealed to the composer’s sense of tragic intensity and the ruthlessness of destiny. The local audience was accustomed to 18th-century Italian opera as well as French grand opéra, and the resulting work is a synthesis of aristocratic drama and popular comedy. In 1869 he revised the work so that it ends in death and transfiguration. This critically admired production of the revised version is conducted by Zubin Mehta, in a new staging that was ‘enriched by some brilliant artists’ (Lyric Opera Journal).
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Franco Vassallo, Angelo Villari, María José Siri, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Valerio Galli – Puccini: Il tabarro, SC 85 (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:29 minutes | 855 MB | Genre: Classical
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This production is new staging of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Il Tabarro is one of the three one-act operas that compose Giacomo Puccinis Il Trittico. Michele is married to young Giorgetta and shares with her a life full of hardships on a barge over the river Seine. She is in love with Luigi, a young longshoreman hired by her husband during the loading of the barge. When Michele overhears his wife giving a rendezvous to Luigi by night, he waits for the man and attacks him, forces him to admit he is his wife’s lover and finally strangles him. Then he hides the body under his cloak, (il tabarro) and when Giorgetta, in mortal fear, comes on deck and asks Michele if he does not wish her to come and rest near him under his cloak, her wronged husband throws it open and Giorgetta discovers in horror her dead lovers body rolling at her feet. The element of Didier Golds Houppelande that most attracted Puccini was the opportunity to represent, in music, a river, which is what acts as a backdrop in this plot and determines its pace. The importance of this atmosphere is enormous, because it is linked to the mise en scene more tightly than usual. The action entirely takes place on a barge over the Seine in Paris, which is placed in the centre of the scene. The music describing the river uses a cyclic repetition of ostinato patterns, representing the monotonous flowing of the water, as inexorable as destiny and as regular as the flow of time. The pulse of the river cyclically marks, in the first part of Tabarro, the life of this world of vanquished: longshoremen and boatmen. But even when it disappears, the musical identity between drama and location does not cease to exist.
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Andrea Bocelli, Kristin Lewis, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta – Verdi: Aida (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:25:50 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following Andrea Bocelli’s recent smash-hit release “Cinema”, the award-winning, top-selling, international tenor returns to his first love, singing opera. One of the world’s best-loved operas, AIDA has been performed over 1,100 times at New York’s Metropolitan Opera alone.
Through an opera of high dramatic tension, Verdi offers monumental scenes and intimate drama. Taking the lead male role of Radamès – an Egyptian military commander – Bocelli’s powerful tenor tells a compelling story of dedication, intrigue, power, and intense love.
In this eagerly-awaited complete opera recording from superstar Andrea Bocelli, the tenor assembles a fine cast to explore Verdi’s most spectacular work: the award-winning American soprano Kristin Lewis takes the role of Aida, the brilliant Italian mezzo Veronica Simeoni as Amneri. Giorgio Giuseppini takes the role of Il Re (the Egyptian King), the powerful Ambrogio Maestri (“Italy’s answer to Bryn Terfel”) as Amonasro and Carlo Colombara, renowned Verdi bass, as Ramfis.
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Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta – Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:50:09 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Inspired by hearing performances of Handel’s oratorios during his visits to London, Haydn composed Die Sch”opfung (The Creation) in 1798. Through a series of accompanied recitatives, arias, duets and choruses, the music depicts the creation of the universe and the carefree existence of Adam and Eve. Haydn drew on the full complement of his symphonic and vocal prowess which reach peaks of almost operatic intensity. With rich harmonies and sonic magnificence in abundance, Die Sch”opfung represents the apex of the Viennese oratorio tradition. It’s a monumental composition with orchestrations of superb richness in which Haydn combines the splendour of classicism with the majesty of sacred music. Large choruses, a sense of momentum and music that’s both powerful and refined accompany the listener through the various phases of the Bible’s account of the Creation, from the explosion of the first light to the marvelous air of the creation of man. To quote Alexander Pereira, superintendent of Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: “The Creation conveys a meaning that reaches all the religions of the world equally, and that is why we decided to propose this marvelous masterpiece by Haydn as a sign of unity between all; it is a very important message at this time.”
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Orchestra Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, George Petean, Giorgi Sturua, Sonya Yoncheva – Giordano: Siberia (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:34:41 minutes | 904 MB | Genre: Classical
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Gabriel Fauré considered Umberto Giordano’s Siberia to be one of the most interesting and singular works of the early 20th century. The opera’s tragic narrative follows Prince Alexis’s courtesan Stephana. She falls in love with an innocent soldier, Vassili, who is sent to Siberia for killing the Prince. Stephana gives up her life of luxury to follow him but cannot escape her past. With its intensely Russian atmosphere and passionately soaring melodies, Siberia was Giordano’s favorite among his operas. This acclaimed Fiorentino production was greeted with multiple ovations.
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