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Verdi: Rigoletto - Highlights - Callas, Di Stefano, Gobbi, Lazzarini - Serafin - 1956

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Verdi: Rigoletto - Highlights - Callas, Di Stefano, Gobbi, Lazzarini - Serafin - 1956

Verdi: Rigoletto - Highlights - Callas, Di Stefano, Gobbi, Lazzarini - Serafin - 1956
Classical | CD | FLAC+LOG+ CUE | NO BOOKS NO COVER | 139 MB
EMI (7243 5 6667 2 6) | Release Date: 1997/1998

It is the most human and vulnerable Rigoletto on record. The most formidable in his wrath and the most tragic when he realises the truth. He is terrified when he walks home after Monterone’s curse. He is fatherly caring when he meets Gilda. He is in despair when he meets the courtiers in act II. [Gobbi] whispers, whines, roars, caresses - his supply of vocal colours seems inexhaustible. This is a reading in a million - but it isn’t spotless vocally. Under pressure the tone tends to become pinched. But just as with Callas’s deficiencies this also becomes part of the reading, part of the personality… The final verdict: If you haven’t got the Serafin set: grab the opportunity at once. You will never regret it!

'Rigoletto' established Verdi's greatness and has held the stage consistently since the premiere in 1851. The libretto was considered astoundingly graphic: the hunchbacked jester, his virginal, frighteningly naive daughter, and the licentious Duke were all given music of astonishing modernity. 'Rigoletto' makes almost no use of the familiar four part aria form (two slow verses followed by two fast ones) which is the fundamental building block of his other great middle period works, 'La Traviata' and 'Il Trovatore,' presaging the music Verdi would go on to write in his late masterpieces.

Although known as the "Callas 'Rigoletto,'" this recording was the third and last time she sang Gilda. Lightening her voice to suggest the girlish Gilda, she is a powerful presence and an excellent foil for the tremendous Rigoletto of Tito Gobbi. Both are less than perfect vocalists but both are recorded at near the peak of their careers. Giuseppe Di Stefano is a dashing, heedless Duke. Serafin leads a richly traditional performance that embraces the usual theater cuts. This 1955 recording is mono although it holds up well in the present remastering.

Tracklist:
Questo o quella
Pari siamo!
Figlia! … Mio padre!
Ah, veglia, o donna
È il sol dell'anima
Gaualtier Maldè … Caro nome
Ella mi fu rapita! … Parmi veder le lagrime
Cortigiani, vil razza dannata
Tutte le feste al tempio
La donna è mobile
Bella figlia dell'amore
V'ho ingannato … Lassù in cielo


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