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A tribute to Mirella Freni
A Life Devoted to Opera - A Portrait of Mirella Freni
Giordano: Fedora
Live from The Teatro Alla Scala, 1993
Mirella Freni (Fedora), Plácido Domingo (Ipanov), Ainhoa Arteta (Olga Sukarov), Dwayne Croft (de Siriex)
Teatro Alla Scala, Gianandrea Gavazzeni (conductor) & Lamberto Puggelli (stage director)
Puccini: La Bohème
Live from The San Francisco Opera, 1988
Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Gino Quilico (Marcello), Stephen Dickson (Schaunard), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Sandra Pacetti (Musetta), Italo Tajo (Benoit/Alcindoro)
San Francisco Opera House, Tiziano Severini (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (stage director)
plus:
A New Portrait of Mirella Freni
2010, the year of her 75th birthday and the 55th anniversary of her stage debut.
Mirella Freni is one of the most remarkable soprano singers in the world of opera. She has been winning over audiences for half a century with her ever fresh and youthful vocals and with a voice quality which remains undiminished.
The portrait shows Mirella Freni during masterclasses in her hometown of Modena; in an extended interview, filmed in the Teatro Comunale, Freni speaks about her extraordinary career. Interviews with colleagues and friends such as famous tenor Plácido Domingo and conductor Herbert von Karajan as well as Freni’s greatest stage performances, private pictures and rare material.
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Gian Carlo Menotti: Die Alte Jungfer Und Der Dieb & Das Medium
Historical Studio Production, 1961 & 1964
Menotti:
Die Alter Jungfer Und Der Dieb (The Old Maid And The Thief)
Elisabeth Höngen (Miss Todd), Olive Moorefield (Laetitia), Hilde Konetzni (Miss Pinkerton) & Eberhard Waechter (Bob)
Wolfgang Rennert
The Medium
Elisabeth Höngen (Madame Flora), José De Vine (Monika Maria), Nino Albanese (Toby) & Hilde Konetzni (Mrs. Nolan)
Armando Aliberti
Orchestra of The Wiener Volksoper
Directed by Otto Schenk & Set Design by Gerhard Hruby
Gian Carlo Menotti was one of the most important 20th-century composers of opera working in the United States. The Old Maid and the Thief and The Medium are brilliant studio recordings from the early years of television. The two operas depict everyday stories about personal relationships and crime in America during the first half of 20th century.
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Wagner: Rienzi
Version in two parts by Philipp Stölzl and Christian Baier
Torsten Kerl (Rienzi), Kate Aldrich (Adriano) & Camilla Nylund (Irene)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor) & Philipp Stölzl (stage director)
Live Recording from The Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2010.
Set Design by Ulrike Siegrist & Philipp Stölz.
Richard Wagner’s early opera “Rienzi” is stylistically closer to Meyerbeer and bel canto than to Wagner’s later masterworks. Yet even this early work – especially as presented in this recording – is “so fantastically beautiful that it takes one’s breath away” (Berliner Zeitung). And in this staging by Philipp Stölzl, who condensed the five-act opera into a little over two hours, “Rienzi” becomes a startlingly powerful and timeless parable of power and abuse.
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Handel: Messiah
staged version
Susan Gritton (soprano), Cornelia Horak (soprano), Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Richard Croft (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone)
Ensemble Matheus & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Stage Director - Claus Guth
Recorded live at the Theater an der Wien, 2009
Claus Guth, one of the most interesting and successful German stage directors in the area of theatrical music, has created a unique concept for the staging of Handel’s most famous work.
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Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
Live recording from the Ruhrtriennale 2009 at the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
Dale Duesing, Andreas Conrad, Ilse Eerens, Karolina Gumos, Finnur Bjarnason, Michael Smallwood & Boris Grappe
Bochumer Symphoniker & ChorWerk Ruhr, Michael Boder
Directed for stage by Willy Decker.
One of the greatest revolutions in the history of mankind happened nearly 3000 years ago: the transition from polytheism to monotheism through the prophet Moses. God revealed himself directly to Moses, instructing him in absolute truth. God’s call to Moses presented a new idea that exploded all previous religious concepts: ‘One God – unique, eternal, intangible, inconceivable’. Moses understands this concept, but is unable to express it, and therefore God appoints Moses’ brother Aaron as his spokesman. They are bound to fail: Aaron can only approach sharing the idea by compromising its meaning, whilst Moses is left to search fruitlessly for “the word I lack …”.
off topic: ¿Tan terrible les parece que Kaufmann saque discos?
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