Donizetti: Anna Bolena

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One of Callas's unique qualities was to inspire an audience with the sense of a great occasion, and to key-up a sympathetic conductor into the production of something to match her own intensity... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 5664712
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Donizetti: Anna Bolena (1997 - Remaster)

Work length2:20:01

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Gianni Raimondi (vocals), Luigi Rumbo (vocals), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (bass), Plinio Clabassi (bass), Gabriella Carturan (mezzo-soprano), Maria Callas (soprano), Giulietta Simionato (mezzo-soprano)
Teatro alla Scala, Noberto Mola
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957-04-14
Recording Venue: 14 April 1957 / 'live' at the Teatro allla Scala, Milano

Né venne il Re?

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Ella di me, sollecita

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Si taciturna e mesta mai non vidi assembles

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Deh! non volar costringere

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Come, innocente giovane...

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Ma poche omai rimangono

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Non v'ha sguardo cui sia dato

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O! qual parlar fu il suo!

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Tremate voi? Sì...tremo

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La mia fama è a piè dell'ara

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Anna pure amor m'offria

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Tu mi lasci?

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Ah! qual sia cercar non oso

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Chi veggo?...In Inghilterra

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Da quel di che, lei perduta

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Già la caccia si raduna

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Ah! così nei di ridenti del premier

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Desta sì tosto

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Voi, Regina!...E fia pur vero

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Io sentil sulla mia mano (Anna / Enrico / Hervey / Percy / Rochefort / Coro)

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Or che reso ai patrili ldid

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Questo di per noi spuntato

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Tutto è deserto

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Bada...bada...tropp'oltre vai...

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Né uscir poss'io!"

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S'ei t'aborre, io t'amo ancora

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Alcun potria ascoltarti

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Trace ognuno, è ognum tremante!

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In quegli squardi impresso

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In separato carcere tutti costor sien tratti

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Ah! segnata è la mia sorte

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Oh! dove mai ne andarono le turbe adulatrici

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Regina!....Duolmi I'amaro incarco

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Dio, che me vedi in core

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Piange I'afflitta....

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Tali con trame ordite

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Sul guanciale del regio letto

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Dal mio cor punita io sono

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Va, infelice, e tecto reca (Anna / Giovanna)

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Ebben? dinanzi ei giudici

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Ecco..ecco Hervey

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Scostatevi..il Re giunge...

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Arresta Enrico

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Sarò fra poco innanzi

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Fin dall'eta più tenera

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Salirà d'Inghilterra sul trono

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Sposa a Percy

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Anna vid'io ....I'intesi...

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Per questra fiamma indomita

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Stoita! non sai...

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Ah! pensate che rivolti

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Chi può vederla a ciglio asciutto

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Piangete voi? D'onde tal pianto?

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Al dolce guidami castel natio

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Qual mesto suon?...

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Cielo, a'miei lunghi spasimi

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Coppia iniqua, I'estremo vendetta

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2010

One of Callas's unique qualities was to inspire an audience with the sense of a great occasion, and to key-up a sympathetic conductor into the production of something to match her own intensity and the public's expectations. Here she gives one of her finest performances. The first impression is a vocal one, in the sense of the sheer beauty of sound. Then, in the first solo, 'Come innocente giovane', addressing Jane Seymour, she's so clean in the cut of the voice and the style of its usage, delicate in her fioriture, often exquisite in her shading, that anyone, ignorant of the Callas legend, would know immediately that this is an artist of patrician status. There are marvellous incidental moments, and magnificent crescendos, into, for instance, 'per pietà delmio spavento' and 'segnata è la mia sorte', culminating in the Tower scene.
Unfortunately, the singers at her side hardly measure up. Simionato has a splendid voice that nevertheless bumps as it goes into the low register and isn't reliably steady in many passages, while the manner is too imperious and unresponsive. The tenor role has been reduced by Gavazzeni's cuts, but Gianni Raimondi makes limited impression in what remains; and, as the King, Rossi-Lemeni produces that big but somewhat woolly tone that became increasingly characteristic. Even so, the great ensembles still prove worthy of the event, and the recording, which is clear without harshness or other distortion, conveys the special quality of this memorable evening with remarkable vividness and fidelity.
For those who insist on a modern recording, there's an imaginatively conducted 1994 performance on Nightingale Classics by Elio Boncompagni, with Edita Gruberová in the title-role. But this Callas/Gavazzeni set is in a different class altogether.

Donizetti: Anna Bolena

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