Verdi: Aida

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Aida is sung by the under-recorded Gabriella Tucci, who provides some truly lovely touches, especially some exquisitely floated top notes…Corelli is in extremely good voice. — International Record Review, March 2015

Release Date: 28th Jul 2014
Catalogue No: WLCD0382
Label: Walhall
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

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Excerpt, Verdi: Aida

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Metropolitan Opera
George Schick

Preludio (Live)

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Verdi: Aida, Act I

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Irene Dalis, Louis Sgarro, Giorgio Tozzi, Franco Corelli, Gabriella Tucci, Cornell MacNeil, Robert Nagy, Carlotta Ordassy
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
George Schick

Sì corre voce che l'Etiope ardisca (Live)

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Se quel guerrier io fossi! (Live)

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Celeste Aïda (Live)

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Quale insolita fiamma (Live)

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Dessa … Ei si turba (Live)

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Alta cagion v'aduna (Live)

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Su! Del Nilo al sacro lido (Live)

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Ritorna vincitor! (Live)

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Immenso Fthà, del mondo (Live)

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Nume, custode e vindice (Live)

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Verdi: Aida, Act II

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Irene Dalis, Louis Sgarro, Gabriella Tucci, Franco Corelli, Giorgio Tozzi, Cornell MacNeil, Robert Nagy, Carlotta Ordassy
Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera
George Schick

Chi mai fra gl'inni e i plausi (Live)

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Silenzio! Aïda verso noi s'avanza (Live)

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Su! Del Nilo...Numi, pietà del mio martir (Live)

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Gloria all'Egitto (Live)

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Marcia (Live)

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Vieni, o guerriero vindice (Live)

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Salvator della patria, io ti saluto (Live)

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Che veggo? Egli? Mio padre! (Live)

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O re pei sacri Numi (Live)

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Verdi: Aida, Act III

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Franco Corelli, Giorgio Tozzi, Gabriella Tucci, Irene Dalis, Cornell MacNeil
Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera
George Schick

O tu che sei d'Osiride (Live)

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Qui Radamès verrà! - O patria mia (Live)

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O cieli azzurri… (Live)

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Ciel! Mio padre! (Live)

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Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamate (Live)

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Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aïda (Live)

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Nel fiero anelito di nuova guerra (Live)

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Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti (Live)

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Aïda! ...Tu non m'ami (Live)

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Ma dimmi, per qual via (Live)

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Sacerdote, io resto a te (Live)

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Verdi: Aida, Act IV

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Irene Dalis, Gabriella Tucci, Franco Corelli, Giorgio Tozzi
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
George Schick

L'aborrita rivale a me sfuggia (Live)

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Già i sacerdoti adunansi (Live)

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Ohimè! Morir mi sento! (Live)

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La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse (Live)

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Morir! sì pura e bella! (Live)

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O terra addio, addio valle di pianti (Live)

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"Gabriella Tucci sang Aïda more frequently than any other role she attempted at the Met (39 performances)...What compels the house audience to long applause is the lengthy, beautifully sustained final note of [‘O patria mia’] and, even more than that, her leisurely and secure ascent to the top C at the aria’s climax – she takes it at the prescribed piano dynamic and crescendos as marked in the score. It is a lovely effect, perhaps the truest rendering of this fearsome moment on the broadcasts….in the end, a Corelli performance remains most notable for its feast of plangent, richly colored tone.” Paul Jackson, SIGN-OFF FOR THE OLD MET, pp.380-81

Irene Dalis, before her retirement from the stage in 1977, was a principal artist at New York’s Metropolitan Opera for 20 consecutive seasons, appeared regularly with Covent Garden, Berlin, Hamburg, Bayreuth and other major opera houses in Europe and the U. S. and was distinguished by the range and large number of roles in her repertoire. By the end of her career she had performed in every major opera house from Naples to San Francisco, and had 44 roles in her repertoire.

Recognised from the beginning as a major dramatic talent, she was most often engaged to sing operas by Verdi, Wagner, and Strauss, eventually performing every major dramatic mezzo-soprano role by these operatic giants. Dubbed the 'Prince of tenors', Corelli possessed handsome features and a charismatic stage presence which endeared him to audiences. He had a long and fruitful partnership with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1961 and 1975. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated universally for his powerhouse voice, electrifying top notes, clear timbre, a very elegant and passionate singing and remarkable performances. Opera News stated that Corelli's lowered-larynx technique "resulted in [a] cavernous sound even in high-flying passages, where it gained brilliance. Regulating the breath pressure, the tenor was able to reduce this sound while retaining the core of the voice in a diminuendo, or even a morendo on a high B-flat, the effect requested by Verdi at the end of 'Celeste Aida'."

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March 2015

Aida is sung by the under-recorded Gabriella Tucci, who provides some truly lovely touches, especially some exquisitely floated top notes…Corelli is in extremely good voice.

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