belcantopera's video: IL PIRATA - Montserrat Caball live 1967 Complete Opera Bellini

piano pianissimo...... Imogene: Montserrat Caballé Gualtiero: Flaviano Labò Ernesto: Piero Cappuccilli Orchestra and Chorus of the Florence May Festival Conductor: Franco Capuana Florence, June 13, 1967 (live) ------------------------------------- Sinfonia - Overture (0:00) ATTO I Coro d'introduzione. Ciel! qual procella orribile (07:50) Scena e cavatina. Nel furor delle tempeste (15:20) Scena e cavatina. Sorgete... Lo sognai ferito, esangue (24:45) Coro di pirati. Viva! viva (35:55) Scena e duetto. Tu sciagurato! Ah! fuggi... (38:33) Marcia e coro. Più temuto, più splendido nome (55:48) Aria. Sì, vincemmo, e il pregio io sento (59:32) Finale I: Quintetto. Parlarti ancor per poco (1:08:38) ATTO II Coro d'introduzione. Che rechi tu?...(1:15:40) Scena e duetto. Tu m'apristi in cor ferita (1:19:06) Scena e duetto. Vieni: cerchiam pe' mari (1:33:36) Terzetto. Cedo al destin orribile (1:41:42) Coro. Lasso! Perir così (1:48:05) Scena ed aria. Tu vedrai la sventurata (1:52:10) Scena ed aria finale. Col sorriso d'innocenza (2:00:22) ------------------------------------- IL PIRATA (The Pirate) is a bel canto opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. It premiered at La Scala on October 27, 1827. Sicily. 13th century. Act I. Crashing, percussive chords... On a stormy sea-shore, fisherfolk watch a shipwreck. Among the survivors is Gualtiero, who tells that he drew strength from his continuing love for Imogene ("Nel furor delle tempeste... Per te di vane lagrime"), although she is now married to Ernesto. Imogene's long entrance scene accounts her dreams and fears: "Lo sognai ferito, esangue" (first - an image of her lover Gualtiero in blood; then - her husband, 28:13). Gualtiero learns that she had married Ernesto only because he had threatened her father's life ("Pietosa al padre, 49:00), and when he sees that she has borne Ernesto's child, he starts to think of revenge ("Bagnato dalle lagrime", 54:01). Act II. Gualtiero meets Imogene again ("Vieni: cerchiam pe' mari"). Ernesto, arriving, conceals himself and overhears the end of their passionate declarations of love ("Cedo al destin orribile"). He is discovered, and exits with Gualtiero, each determined to fight to the death. It is Ernesto who is killed. Gualtiero gives himself up to justice, and, as he is taken away, he prays that Imogene may forgive him: "Tu vedrai la sventurata... Ma non fia sempre odiata la mia memoria". Final scene. Imogene appears in a state of anguish and sees visions of her dead husband and her son ("Col sorriso d'innocenza ... Oh sole, ti vela di tenebre oscure". ------------------------------------- All evening long, right through to the unearthly mad scene, Caballé seems possessed by the character. What could she not imagine, and what not voice? Caballé does not always sound like her later self, which is a good thing: few of those injected glottal attacks which became a mannerism, absolute security in both fioriture and the heavier dramatic passages, the trademark pianissimi and wonderful evenness of tone throughout her range. Montserrat Caballé in una delle sue grandi notti... Lo splendore, che per dieci anni ha incantato nasce dal timbro bellissimo, nobile, aristocratico, aulico di autentico soprano lirico, da una emissione, che dalla zona centrale in su era di scuola, da una facilità a flettere la voce, mantenendo il suono in posizione sicchè anche un alitato pianissimo riempiva la sale e poteva esprimere nel contempo strazio o furore. LUCREZIA BORGIA - Montserrat Caballé 1968 (Complete Opera Donizetti): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKvHU3MX1eY ------------------------------------- If you have Callas or don't want her then this is the choice to make. The live Callas concert performance from 1959 where she was saddled with a bullish graceless tenor and an inadequate baritone: IL PIRATA - Maria Callas, New York 1959 (Complete Opera Bellini): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jof-2Yi71Ug Maria Callas as Imogene - Sorgete...Lo sognai ferito, esangue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TYoJEFkjmo Maria Callas - Col sorriso d'innocenza (score animation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQNjzA3VaE IL PIRATA - Mirto Picchi 1958 (Complete Opera Bellini): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaLdyTAGORw Giuseppe Morino in Bellini's IL PIRATA (live 1987): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBlg6930JLA Giuseppe Morino - Tu vedrai la sventurata (score animation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncqmQDyfeA0 -------------------------------------