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DONIZETTI: La Favorite.(Review)
DONIZETTI: La Favorite [] Kasarova, Furmansky; Vargas, Michaels-Moore, Colombara, Piccoli, Fehenberger; Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Viotti. Text and translations. RCA 74321-66229-2
La Favorite, Donizetti's biggest success at the Opera de Paris, was known in the twentieth century primarily through an Italian revision that Donizetti himself labeled a "horror." La Favorite's libretto, in which the king's mistress is married off to a monk who jilts her right after their wedding when he learns of her former royal position, scandalized the Italian censors; with self-serving zealotry, they mangled it into La Favorita.
So this recording of the "original French version," based on Ricordi's critical edition (edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick), has the difficult task of presenting what is practically a new opera to ears already familiar with many of its finest moments. When Fernand begins "Ange si pur," or Leonor "O mon Fernand!," each is revealing rarely heard original words while contending with memories of these airs as ...
- Donizetti in the Light of Romanticism and the Teaching of Johann Simone Mayr.
- Magazine article from: Notes Ashbrook, William December 1, 1993 700+ words
...there are echoes of Donizetti, a composer he knew...various editions of La Favorite for piano and other...captured something which Donizetti had from the start...about the "echoes" of Donizetti in Wagner's early...of his transcribing La Favorite raises the problem...
- Donizetti, Gaetano
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
...familiarity as an example of Donizetti's style, is in fact uneven...post-Rossini vocalization. Donizetti was always happy to write...directness of Rosine Stolz La favorite (1840), and the noble example...1841). By the mid-1830s Donizetti was in full command of his...
- Soiree francaise: arias and duets by Bizet, Massenet, Lalo, Gounod, Thomas,...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Kareda, Urjo September 22, 1997 700+ words
...bien aimee" from Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys. And Braun brings both passion and allure to "Leonor, viens" from Donizetti's La Favorite and the drinking song from Thomas's Hamlet. These are fresh and spontaneous readings of familiar arias...
- Recordings -- Donizetti's Poliuto by Teatro Donizetti Chorus and others under...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Vasta, Stephen F February 3, 1996 700+ words
...Alaimo, Rocchi, D'Arcangelo;p Teatro Donizetti Chorus, A. Toscanini Orch., Gavazzeni...2) Poliuto (1848) finds the mature Donizetti at his peak in terms of innovative adaptation...of accretions and interpolations from Donizetti's Paris revision, Les Martyrs. On...
- Donizetti in Ighilterra and Holland Park
- Magazine article from: Musical Opinion Amis, John July 1, 2009 700+ words
Donizetti had obsessions - including one with the...premire was the San Carlo in Naples and Donizetti wrote to his publisher: 'It is not...the gamut from tender to ferocious. Donizetti repaid her by giving her the best music...
- ACADEMY GIVES DONIZETTI HIS DUE, MORE OR LESS
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Buell, Globe Correspondent September 9, 1996 700+ words
...opera arias and ensembles by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) succeeded in drawing...director, even mooted the idea of a Donizetti II for next season. There will certainly...lack of material. How many operas did Donizetti compose before tertiary syphilis began...
- DONIZETTI COMEDY, UPDATED
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) EVONNE COUTROS, Staff Writer April 8, 1994 700+ words
...Bergen County, NJ) 04-08-1994 DONIZETTI COMEDY, UPDATED By EVONNE COUTROS...OPERA PREVIEW DON PASQUALE: An opera by Donizetti at 8 p.m. Saturday. Starring Eugene...seniors and students. (914) 352-8568. Donizetti wrote more than 60 operas, none of which...
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Gaetano Donizetti 18th century Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti wears a placid expression. The creator of more than 60 operas, Donizetti is best known for the expressive found in ŒLucrezia Borgia and...
