Alfano: Risurrezione

Alfano: Risurrezione

Alfano: Risurrezione
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Composer: Franco Alfano
Conductor: Elio Boncompagni
Orchestra: Turin RAI Orchestra
Performer: Anna di Stasio
Performer: Antonio Boyer
Performer: Egidio Casolari
Performer: Fernanda Cadoni
Performer: Giuseppe Gismondo
Performer: Magda Olivero
Performer: Maja Sunara
Performer: Maria Grazia Allegri
Performer: Nucci Condo
Performer: Patrizia Pace
Performer: Vera Magrini
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Music Label: Opera D'oro
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Risurrezione, opera: Act 1. Piano, che non si versi!... Dove lo metto?
  2. Risurrezione, opera: Act 1. Cristo è resuscitato!
  3. Risurrezione, opera: Act 1. Dimitri, figluolo mio, la riconosci la tua stanza
  4. Risurrezione, opera: Act 1. Qualcuno giù in giardino?... � Katiusha!
  5. Risurrezione, opera: Act 1. Cara! Ricordi quella corsa sfrenata per i campi?
  6. Risurrezione, opera: Act 2. Quest'ora è eterna! Non passa mai!
  7. Risurrezione, opera: Act 2. Verrà? Lo rivedrò?
  8. Risurrezione, opera: Act 2. Dopo quel giornodunque
  9. Risurrezione, opera: Act 2. Quel cane rinnegato ha vinto la scommessa!
  10. Risurrezione, opera: Act 2. Presto cara, il treno!
Music CD 2
  1. Risurrezione, opera: Act 3. Ohè! testa rasata!
  2. Risurrezione, opera: Act 3. Ti abitui a questa vita?
  3. Risurrezione, opera: Act 3. La mia antica padrona!
  4. Risurrezione, opera: Act 3. Ecco, è qui ch'ogni speranza muor!
  5. Risurrezione, opera: Act 3. Là, nella sala del processo?
  6. Risurrezione, opera: Act 3. La sorte è stata di te più pietosa
  7. Risurrezione, opera: Act 4. Oggi, è sereno il ciel, senza procelle
  8. Risurrezione, opera: Act 4. Vorrei parlarvi... Dite
  9. Risurrezione, opera: Act 4. Lasciatela!... Katiusha!
  10. Risurrezione, opera: Act 4. Ed ora, va... parti!

Music reviews of Alfano: Risurrezione

Music Review: Olivero in 1971 live performance of good verismo opera
Rating: 5 Stars

Source: This is live performance from Turin, dated October 22, 1971.

Sound: Fairly good, offering about a much as can reasonably be expected from a live performance of its time. This is the same performance that Gala issued in a quite wretched edition. This Opera d'Oro release offers markedly better sound. (Now, THERE is a sentence that one seldom has occasion to write!) There are a few moments of feet clomping on the stage. The audience is well-disciplined and scatters only a few coughs.

Documentation: Typical Od'O wasted opportunity. No libretto. Too short summary of the plot. The only list of performers, which is located on the back cover, offers the names of about half of the singers in solo parts. The track list does not identify who is singing and shows no timings. The tracks are over-long, with only ten used on Disk 2. The documentation on the Gala release is better, but that is only the faintest of praise.

A single hearing of "Risurrezione" is sufficient to establish that Franco Alfano had the verismo style down cold. The opera is absolutely at home with "Cavalleria Rusticana," "Pagliacci," "Andrea Chenier" and "Tosca." It is diatonic, melodic and orchestrally lush. But it is just a little late, just behind the crest of the verismo wave, so to speak. Alfano was a fine craftsman, with every tool in the verismo kit, lacking only the ability to craft a hit tune.

"Risurrezione" is based on Tolstoy's 1900 novel, "Resurrection." Despite that blue-blooded ancestry, Alfano's version is chock-full of good old, low-down, Italianate emotion. For once, Alfano managed to avoid the weak endings that plague his "Cyrano" and his completion of "Turandot." The last act of "Risurrezione" offers full-throttle exchanges between the tenor and the soprano that surely would wake up any audience.

The unquestioned star of this recording is that prima donna assoluta, Magda Olivero. The youthful Olivero (she was only about sixty at the time) sounds wonderful. The tenor, Giuseppe Gismondo was a real surprise to me. He presents a convincing performance with a big, powerful, dark voice. As far as I can gather, he sang extensively with the second-tier opera companies in the US during the 1960s. I find myself puzzled about why he did not become better known.

The rest of the cast is wholly unknown to me. On the whole, they are pretty good. I can't claim any familiarity with this opera beyond this performance, but the conducting seems to be both competent and appropriate.

The opera is a good piece of work, possessing almost all the virtues of the turn-of-the-Twentieth Century verismo school. Olivero is, as always, a true star and a genuine treat. Gismondo is a pleasing surprise.

Five stars.
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