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Otello
Creator
Title
Otello [sound recording] / Rossini.
Published
London : Opera Rara, p1999.
Physical Description
3 sound discs (189 + 39 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Opera in 3 acts.
Libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa, after Shakespeare's play & previous adaptations of the play.
Compact discs.
Program notes by Jeremy Commons & performance history by Tom Kaufman, synopsis in English, French, German & Italian, and libretto with English translation laid in container.
Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, Sept.-Oct. 1999.
Sung in Italian.
Format
Audio
Language
Italian
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2006
Performers
Elizabeth Futral ; Bruce Ford ; William Matteuzzi ; Ildebrando D'Arcangelo ; other soloists ; Geoffrey Mitchell Choir ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; David Parry, conductor.
Partial contents
Appendices on cd. 3. Tracks 9-14 : Act III : scene 3 & final scene with "lieto fine" (happy ending) [as performed during carnival in Rome, 1819-1820] (24:10)
Tracks 15-16 : Example of an entrance aria & cabaletta for Desdemona : Mura infelici ... Oh! quante lagrime [Malcolm's aria from La donna del lago, as modified by Giuditta Pasta] (6:38 + 3:20)
Tracks 17-18 : Act II, scene 6 : Duetto (Otello, Jago) : Non m'inganno ... L'ira d'avverso fato : an example of the music as sung with a female Otello [as was done by Pasta & Malibran] (4:22 + 2:26).
Issue number
ORC 18 Opera Rara
Subjects
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Geoffrey Mitchell Choir.
Philharmonia Orchestra (London, England)
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