Donizetti - Maria Stuarda / Sutherland, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bonynge
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Composer: Gaetano DonizettiConductor: Richard Bonynge
Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Performer: Joan Sutherland
Performer: Huguette Tourangeau
Performer: Luciano Pavarotti
Performer: James Morris
Performer: Margreta Elkins
Performer: Roger Soyer
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1990-05-16
Music Label: Decca (Universal)
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Act I: Introduzione...Qui s'attenda, ell e vicina - Chor del Teatro Communale di Bologna/Richard Bonynge
- Act I: Si, vuol di Francia il Rege - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act I: (Ah! quando all'ara scorgemi...) - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act I: In tal giorno di contento - Roger Soyer
- Act I: Ah! dal cielo discenda un raggio - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act I: Fra voi perche non veggio il Conte? - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act I: Hai nelle giostre, o Talbot, chiesto di me? - Luciano Pavarotti
- Act I: Questa imago, questo foglio - Roger Soyer
- Act I: Sei tu confuso? - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act I: Si! Era d'amor l'immagine - Roger Soyer
- Act I: (Sul crin la rivale la man mi stendea...) - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act II: Allenta il pie, Regina - Margreta Elkins
- Act II: O nube! che lieve per l'aria ti aggiri - Joan Sutherland
- Act II: Nella pace del mesto riposo - Joan Sutherland
- Act II: Ah! non m'inganna la gioia! - Joan Sutherland
- Act II: Da tutti abbandonata - Joan Sutherland
- Act II: Ah! Se il mio cor tremo giammai - Joan Sutherland
- Act II: Qual loco e questo? - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act II: (E sempre la stessa...) - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act II: Deh! l'accogli...Morta al mondo, e morta al trono - Luciano Pavarotti/Joan Sutherland
- Act II: Va, preparati, furente - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act III: Scene 1: E pensi? e tardi? - James Morris
- Act III: Scene 1: Quella vita a me funesta - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act III: Scene 1: Ah, deh! per pieta sospendi - Luciano Pavarotti
- Act III: Scene 1: D'una sorella, o barbara - Luciano Pavarotti
- Act III: Scene 1: Vanne, indegno; t'appare nel volto - Huguette Tourangeau
- Act III: Scene 2: La perfida insultarmi volea nel mio sepolcro - Joan Sutherland
- Act III: Scene 2: O mio buon Talbot! - Joan Sutherland
- Act III: Scene 2: Quando di luce rosea - Joan Sutherland
- Act III: Scene 2: Lascia contenta al carcere - Roger Soyer
- Act III: Scene 3: Vedeste?...Vedemmo - Famigliari/Joan Sutherland
- Act III: Scene 3: Anna!...Qui piu sommessi favellate - Margreta Elkins
- Act III: Scene 3: Deh! Tu di un umile preghiera il suono - Joan Sutherland
- Act III: Scene 3: O colpo! E gia vicino del tuo morir l'istante - Famigliari/ James Morris
- Act III: Scene 3: D'un cor che muore reca il perdono - Joan Sutherland
- Act III: Scene 3: Giunge il Conte - Roger Soyer
- Act III: Scene 3: Ah! se un giorno da queste ritorte - Joan Sutherland
Music reviews of Donizetti - Maria Stuarda / Sutherland, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bonynge
Music Review: SUTHERLAND IN TOP FORM VOCALLY AND DRAMATICALLY!
Rating: 5 Stars
Maria Stuarda is one of Donizetti's most dramatic operas, alongside with Lucrezia Borgia and Roberto Devereux. Once sung by gorgeous voices and effective singer actresses, it is the proof that Bel Canto is much more than beautiful melodies and difficult coloraturas. The roles of Maria and Elisabetta require not only remarkable voices, but above all great dramatic skills. Indeed, there's a natural dramatic power in all the masterpieces of Bel Canto, and it can be exciting when a singer like Callas, Sills or Sutherland brings the drama and pathos out of that amazing music!
Joan Sutherland, being a real drammatico d'agilità soprano, has established herself as one of the best interpreters of Maria Stuarda. Her only rivals are Beverly Sills and Montserrat Caballé. However, both Sills and Caballé didn't have the powerful voice of La Stupenda. Instead of what some people declare about Sutherland's acting, she succeeds dramatically in all her most important roles. Being a sensitive and stylistically accurate actress, her acting conveys sentimentality and pathos rather than rage and tragic drama, but she can also be a fiery actress at the most intense moments. Here her diction is also very expressive, as she emphasizes every word to great dramatic effect. Just listen to her furious and sarcastic ''Vil bastarda!", which is enough to make her ''Figlia impura di Bolena" the most terrific on disc!
Sutherland's voice had become darker and more expressive in 1975. Although it has gained a little more vibrato, there's little sign of the wobble it would acquire in few years. She shows off many qualities of her miraculous singing: the huge and exuberant sound, the ravishing high notes, the impeccable legato and even the much improved low register. Some highlights of her performance are the rock-solid high note she sings with Pavarotti in ''Se il mio cor tremò giammai", the incredibly long vocal line she keeps for 22 seconds in "Deh! tu di un umile preghiera" and the heartbreaking final scene.
Luciano Pavarotti is at his peak, singing fantastic high notes with his beautiful bright voice. He also delivers and adequate characterization of Cecil. Actually, with that voice, even if he'd just stand and sing, this would still be a fascinating performance! In fact, the drama is centered on the two rival women, and Huguette Tourangeau does a great job as the Queen Elisabetta. She was kind of a second choice as a mezzo partner for Sutherland, being the first Marilyn Horne. Indeed, their voice blend extremely well, as we can hear in the Confrontation Scene. Her dark toned voice and wide range are ideal to sing Elisabetta, as it handles the difficult music written for the part with ease and conveys the vengeful personality of the role.
This is one of Donizetti's most exciting operas, and it's sung by an ideal cast. Three of the most remarkable Bel Canto voices ever were joined in this recording. Besides, the moving music of Maria Stuarda is conducted with mastery and dramaticism. You can't miss this great opportunity to listen to some Golden Age singing at a mid-priced recording! You will be astonished!
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Description of Donizetti - Maria Stuarda / Sutherland, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bonynge
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.This opera becomes a battle of the divas in its great second act, with Sutherland, as Mary Stuart, pitted against the jealous, paranoid, and vengeful Elizabeth I (Tourangeau). There is an intensely dramatic confrontation in which insults are violently exchanged between the powerful monarch and her imprisoned but still regal rival to the throne. Mary wins the battle of insults, but this is a dangerous victory over one who has the power of life and death. Elizabeth orders Mary's execution and Act III becomes a spectacle of pathos and horror. Sutherland's usual style is more attuned to pathos than to the swapping of insults, but she rises splendidly to the challenges of Act II and she has a splendid supporting cast. --Joe McLellan
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