Leoncavallo: Zazŕ

Leoncavallo: Zazŕ

Leoncavallo: Zazà
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Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer: Alberto Franchetti
Conductor: Maurizio Arena
Conductor: Pietro Argento
Orchestra: RLB Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Mariella Adani
Performer: Vinicio Cocchieri
Performer: Ermanno Lorenzi
Performer: Lynne Strow Piccolo
Performer: Maria Grazia Piolatto
Performer: Angelo Romero
Performer: Guido Rimonda
Performer: Nino Carta
Performer: Sevario Burzano
Performer: Giovanni Gaznerolli
Performer: Silvana Mazzieri
Performer: Sofia Mezetti
Performer: Angelo Mosatti
Performer: Luciano Saldari
Performer: Lynne Strow
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-03-30
Music Label: Gala
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Introduzione
  2. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. So che son capricciosa e sventatella
  3. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Salute, ragazzi
  4. Zazà, opera: Act 1. Buona sera, mia Zazè
  5. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Lo sai tu che vuol dire un uom che fugge
  6. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Augusto, buona sera!
  7. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Toh! Sei tu, mammĂ 
  8. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Ebben, ZazĂ ?
  9. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Un uomo sol restavaci da questo lato
  10. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Dufresne, contarvene voglio una bella!
  11. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. E' un riso gentil
  12. Zazà, opera: Act 1. Non so capir perchè, se m'ami tu
  13. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Signore, entrate
  14. ZazĂ , opera: Act 1. Su, ZazĂ !
  15. Zazà, opera: Act 1. Non vi seduce ripetere il duetto insieme un pò?
  16. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. E' deciso: tu parti per questo gran viaggio?
  17. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. Quando vai a Parigi e la sera ritorni
  18. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. ZazĂ , ZazĂ , non t'attristare
  19. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. Or tempo e baci per guadagnare
  20. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. Fa presto, Natalia!
  21. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. Ecco gli stivaletti, signora
  22. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. ZazĂ !... Adesso dove corre quelle saetta?
  23. Zazà, opera: Act 2. Non c'è? Perchè vorrei
  24. Zazà, opera: Act 2. Ah, ah, ah! Che quadretto! E' molto, è poco
  25. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. Cascart mio camerata, mi piace il riverderti
  26. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. Buona ZazĂ  del mio buon tempo, ascolta
  27. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. Peggio se questa dolce illusion non dura!
  28. ZazĂ , opera: Act 2. No, non dovea tradirmi!
Music CD 2
  1. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. Preludetto - Coro interno
  2. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. Oh mio piccolo tavolo ingombrato
  3. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. Ecco son pronta, Milio
  4. Zazà, opera: Act 3. Lei dunque è la signora Dunoyer?
  5. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. Chi sarĂ  questa donna?
  6. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. Signora... guardate: una bambina
  7. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. Angioletto, il tuo nome?
  8. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. Mamma?! Io non l'ho avuta mai!
  9. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. E' finita! Ammogliato
  10. ZazĂ , opera: Act 3. Voi, signora, aspettavate
  11. ZazĂ , opera: Act 4. Figliuola mia... Mia ZazĂ !
  12. ZazĂ , opera: Act 4. ZazĂ , piccola zingara
  13. ZazĂ , opera: Act 4. Eccoti, amore e vita!
  14. ZazĂ , opera: Act 4. Tu non m'amavi piĂą
  15. ZazĂ , opera: Act 4. Che notizie mi porti da Parigi?
  16. Germania, opera: Symphonic Intermezzo (Between Scene 2 and Epilogue)
  17. Germania, opera: Son come molti un profugo
  18. Germania, opera: O tu che mi soccorri e sei pietoso
  19. ZazĂ , opera: Act 4. Ah! Lo sol... Sono un piaga
  20. ZazĂ , opera: Act 4. Che ho fatto?

Music reviews of Leoncavallo: Zazŕ

Music Review: Leoncavallo Light
Rating: 4 Stars

While any great composer can have an "off" day, in the world of late 19th/early 20th century Italian operas there were a group of composers that reversed the order of things. Essentially mediocre to good composers, each is famous for one huge success. Cilea had Ariadne Lecouvreur, Mascagni had Cavelleria Rusticana, and Leoncavallo had Pagliacci.

Zaza is Leoncavallo's second most popular opera, and frankly it's quite a way down the scale from Pagliacci. To be fair, he is not helped by his two librettists, who gave him a libretto of simply gooey sentimentality.

The opera is the story of Zaza, not the drag queen from Cage aux Folles but the star of a tacky music hall. When the curtain rises, she is in her dressing room waiting for her lover, Dufresne. Before he shows up, she is visited by Floriana, her bitter rival in the cast, her singing partner and ex-lover Cascart, her drunken mother Anaide, and the journalist Bussy, a friend of Dufresne's. It's beginning to seem like Grand Central Station in there.

Dufresne finally shows up, the rest of the crew clears off, and the lovers sing a nice duet, wherein Dufresne admits that although he has been hesitant to get too involved with Zaza, he does reciprocate her feelings. (Big of him.)

The second act starts at Zaza's house, where she and Dufresne are dealing with his imminent departure for America. He takes off, and Cascart shows up to try to get Zaza to dump Dufresne. (Cascart is still in love with her.) He drops portentous hints, finally coming out and saying that he's seen Dufresne in the company of a young woman at another theater. Understandably put out by this revelation, Zaza heads off, with her maid in tow, to beard the lion in his den.

Alone in his study, Dufresne sings a song about his imminent separation from Zaza. Zaza and her maid show up, and are met by Dufresne's young daughter, Toto, (Dufresne having conveniently left the stage before the ladies arrive.) Toto artlessly chats with the ladies, and very quickly Zaza realizes that the "other woman" was in fact Dufresne's wife, and that he is a happily married man with a daughter--thereby making Zaza herself the "other woman". Oops.

Toto's naivete makes Zaza reflect on her own unhappy childhood, how her father abandoned her, and how she had to face her mother's frequent drunken rages. Then Toto plays Cherubini's Ave Maria, and Zaza joins in with a descant that reflects her sadness on lost innocence and lost love. (Is no stone left unturned?) The ladies then leave. (So, probably, does half the audience.)

Zaza, understandably unhappy, goes home where she is met by her ex, Cascart, who is still pushing his suit. Dufresne shows up, Zaza tells him she went to his home and lies, claiming that she told his wife of their affair. Dufresne gets angry, calls Zaza a few unprintable names, Zaza tells him the truth, he apologizes and buzzes off, (glad to get away, no doubt.) She, realizing that this little affair isn't going anywhere (would that be why he is leaving for America--you think?) decides to give him up. End of opera.

Mercifully, the music is better than the libretto--in a pleasant, tunefull but not particularly memorable way. What rates this opera four stars is the quality of the production. This is a live 1976 Italian radio broadcast. The cast is led by the relatively unknown American soprano, Lynne Strow, who does a very credible job as Zaza. The opera is essentially a soprano vehicle, needing a soprano of sufficient ability and presence to make the audience forget (or at least forgive) the wildly overly-sentimental libretto. And Strow does very well, with a rich full voice and a wonderful artistry that rises above the obvious banality of the lyrics. She is well supported by her equally unknown Italian colleagues, including the marvelously-voiced baritone Angelo Romero as Cascart and the ardent if slightly overwrought tenor of Luciano Saldari. The RAI Symphony Orchestra and chorus also perform admirably. The sound quality, although not great, is better than most GALA recordings.


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