gettyO89's video: Donizetti Il Diluvio Universale Mentre il core abbandonava Perch nell alma Yasuko Hayashi

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale dell'Opera di Genova, 1985. Jan Latham König, conductor. Noé - Raina Kabaivanska Sela - Yasuko Hayashi Ada - Martine Dupuy Cadmo - Ottavio Garaventa Il Diluvio Universale (The Great Flood) is an opera (or azione tragico-sacra) by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Domenico Gilardoni after Lord Byron's Heaven and Earth and Francesco Ringhieri's tragedy Il diluvio (1788) Incredibly, the premiere on February 28, 1830 was postponed for an entire week due to torrent, swift-flowing rains in Naples. Teatro San Carlo's basement had been completely flooded. The opera finally premiered on March 6, 1830. It is known that for the production to be accepted, it had to be given to the church censors in the form of an oratorio, since its planned premiere was within the period of fasting. It was only allowed due to its being a well known biblical story. Donizetti revised the opera and a new production opened on January 17, 1834 at Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice. After another staging in 1837 in Paris, it disappeared for 147 years. The opera was not presented again until 1985 in Genoa. The first production in Switzerland took place at St. Gallen where, since 2006, an opera is presented in the open air in front of the Cathedral around the first weekend of July. The production of Il Diluvio was also given at the St. Galler Festspiele 2010 when Mirco Palazzi, Majella Cullagh and Manuela Custer appeared. Opera Rara gave the opera its customary luxurious recording and booklet in 2006. Premiere Cast: Noè, bass , Luigi Lablache Jafet, baritone, Gennaro Ambrosini Sem, tenor, Giovanni Arrigotti Cam, bass, Lorenzo Salvi Tesbite, soprano, Fabiani Asfene, soprano, Cecilia Grassi Abra, mezzo-soprano, Edvige Ricci Cadmo, tenor, Berardo Winter Sela, Azael's mother, soprano, Luigia Boccabadati Ada, Sela's friend soprano, Maria Carraro Artoo, tenor, Gaetano Chizzola Azael, child, silent.