Bellini: Callas, Del Monaco, Simionato / Votto (Teatro alla Scala, 1955) 2 Enhanced CD

COMPACT DISC 1 [79.58]

1 • Overture 1 [5.42]
Orchestra

ACT I

2 • Ite sul colle, o Druidi 1 [8.06]
Oroveso / Chorus
3 • Svanir le voci! 2 [0.55]
Pollione / Flavio
4 • Ma nel mio core è spenta [1.40]
Pollione / Flavio
5 • Meco all'altar di Venere [2.31]
Pollione
6 • Odi?… I suoi riti a compiere [1.31]
Flavio / Chorus / Pollione
7 • Me protegge, me difende [1.27]
Pollione
8 • Norma viene [4.26]
Chorus
9 • Sediziose voci [4.17]
Norma / Oroveso / Chorus
10 • Casta diva [7.02]
Norma / Chorus
11 • Fine al rito [1.53]
Norma / Chorus
12 • Ah! bello a me ritorna [2.54]
Norma / Chorus
13 • Sgombra è la sacra selva [3.24]
Adalgisa
14 • Deh! proteggimi, o Dio! [1.50]
Adalgisa
15 • Eccola! va mi lascia [1.28]
Pollione / Adalgisa
16 • Va, crudele 2 [5.13]
Pollione / Adalgisa
17 • Vieni in Roma [3.10]
Pollione / Adalgisa

ACT II

18 • Vanne, e li cela entrambi [4.11]
Norma / Clotilde
19 • Adalgisa! – Alma costanza! [3.14]
Norma / Adalgisa
20 • Oh, rimembranza!… [4.56]
Norma / Adalgisa
21 • Ah sì, fa core abbracciami [2.55]
Norma / Adalgisa
22 • Ma di’, l’amato giovane [1.23]
Norma / Adalgisa / Pollione
23 • Oh, non tremare [1.34]
Norma / Adalgisa
24 • Oh, di qual sei tu vittima [3.59]
Norma / Pollione / Adalgisa


COMPACT DISC 2 [71.09]

1 • Perfido! - Or basti! [3.00]
Norma / Pollione / Adalgisa

ACT III

2 • Introduction [4.09]
Orchestra
3 • Dormono entrambi [5.37]
Norma / Clotilde
4 • Me chiami, o Norma? [2.37]
Adalgisa / Norma
5 • Deh! con te li prendi [4.05]
Norma / Adalgisa
6 • Mira, o Norma [4.14]
Adalgisa / Norma
7 • Cedi, deh cedi! [1.04]
Adalgisa / Norma
8 • Sì, fino all’ore estreme [1.58]
Norma / Adalgisa

ACT IV

9 • Non partì? [5.16]
Chorus
10 • Guerrieri, a voi venirne [1.57]
Oroveso / Chorus
11 • Ah! del Tebro al giogo indegno [3.07]
Oroveso / Chorus
12 • Ei tornerà. Sì! [5.27]
Norma / Clotilde / Chorus / Oroveso
13 • Guerra, guerra! [1.08]
Chorus
14 • Nè compi il rito, o Norma? [4.02]
Oroveso / Norma / Clotilde / Chorus / Pollione
15 • In mia man alfin tu sei [7.22]
Norma / Pollione
16 • Dammi quel ferro! [3.38]
Pollione / Norma / Chorus / Oroveso
17 • Qual cor tradisti [4.40]
Norma / Pollione / Oroveso / Chorus
18 • Norma! Deh Norma! Scòlpati! [2.27]
Chorus / Norma / Pollione / Oroveso
19 • Deh! Non volerli vittime [4.59]
Norma / Pollione / Oroveso / Chorus



IMPORTANT NOTE

Unfortunately, the first 15 minutes of this 1955 La Scala performance were not recorded. All previous LP and CD editions filled in the missing portions of music using diverse uncredited sources. In order to preserve a sense of completeness for those who wish to listen to Bellini’s opera in its entirety, Divina Records has chosen the same option, but not without providing appropriate credits.
This CD edition contains all known surviving material from December 7, 1955; unlike other labels, Divina Records has not replaced any portion of this material by parts from other, inauthentic sources.
The sources other than December 7, 1955 used by Divina Records for this issue are given below.

Listeners interested only in the authentic material recorded on 12/7/1955, should skip Tracks 1-3 of CD 1 and play the first disc from Track 4 onwards.

1 CD 1, tracks 1 and 2: Nicola Zaccaria (Oroveso), Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Milan, January 13, 1965.
2 CD 1, track 3 [complete]; track 16 [0.49-1.19]: Mario del Monaco (Pollione), Athos Cesarini (Flavio), Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della Radiotelevisione Italiana conducted by Tullio Serafin; Radio broadcast of June 29, 1955, Rome, Auditorium del Foro Italico RAI.