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  • LA GIOCONDA ~ Madrid 1970

    Gulin

    Above: soprano Ángeles Gulín

    Audio-only…Ponchielli’s LA GIOCONDA from Madrid 1970.

    So fun to find this unusual assembly of singers all in one place: recalling Gulin’s NY debut in HUGUEOTS at Carnegie Hall: biggest soprano sound I ever heard…I was at Glossop’s Met debut…Casoni was my first-ever Cherubino…a young Domingo…Ruggero Raimondi, always a favorite…and Pecile’s beautifully-sung ‘Voce di donna‘…some radio static, and singers and orchestra sometimes part company…but I’ve had a blast listening to it.
     
    I have to confess: GIOCONDA has always been my favorite Italian opera. It all boils down to this: love or death! Isn’t that the essence of opera?

    Listen here.

    CAST:

    La Gioconda – Angeles Gulín; Enzo – Plácido Domingo (debut in Madrid); Barnaba – Peter Glossop; Laura – Biancamaria Casoni; Alvise – Ruggero Raimondi; La Cieca – Mirna Pecile.

    Conductor – Anton Guadagno

  • LA GIOCONDA ~ Madrid 1970

    Gulin

    Above: soprano Ángeles Gulín

    Audio-only…Ponchielli’s LA GIOCONDA from Madrid 1970.

    So fun to find this unusual assembly of singers all in one place: recalling Gulin’s NY debut in HUGUEOTS at Carnegie Hall: biggest soprano sound I ever heard…I was at Glossop’s Met debut…Casoni was my first-ever Cherubino…a young Domingo…Ruggero Raimondi, always a favorite…and Pecile’s beautifully-sung ‘Voce di donna‘…some radio static, and singers and orchestra sometimes part company…but I’ve had a blast listening to it.
     
    I have to confess: GIOCONDA has always been my favorite Italian opera. It all boils down to this: love or death! Isn’t that the essence of opera?

    Listen here.

    CAST:

    La Gioconda – Angeles Gulín; Enzo – Plácido Domingo (debut in Madrid); Barnaba – Peter Glossop; Laura – Biancamaria Casoni; Alvise – Ruggero Raimondi; La Cieca – Mirna Pecile.

    Conductor – Anton Guadagno

  • Verdi REQUIEM ~ Verona 1980

    Verona arena-

    A performance of the Verdi REQUIEM from the Arena di Verona, 1980. Riccardo Muti conducts.

    Watch and listen here.

    It’s a rather murky video, but the singing is superb. The soloists are Montserrat Caballé, Brigitte Fassbaender, Veriano Luchetti, and Ruggero Raimondi.