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Placido Domingo | Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or C699073

Placido Domingo

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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or

Cat No: C699073

Barcode: 4011790699325

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 6th August 2007

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Placido Domingo
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Artists

Placido Domingo
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

About

There are almost no superlatives left to describe Plácido Domingo and his standing in the international world of opera today. The 40th anniversary of his Vienna Opera State début is a further milestone in a career that the tenor, conductor, opera house administrator and soon to be baritone, continues to pursue with unflagging energy.
He first appeared on the stage of the Vienna State Opera on 19th May 1967, when he sang the role of the Spanish Infante in Verdi's Don Carlo. Since then he has regularly added to his repertory in Vienna, while also choosing the house to bid farewell to some of his leading roles.
Orfeo's new album of highlights from his performances at the Vienna State Opera thus includes his role débuts as Siegmund in Die Walküre and as Jean de Leyde in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète as well as his farewell performances as Puccini's Rodolfo and Cavaradossi. In every one of these cases he generates the same storm of enthusiasm as those that attended virtually all his appearances in Vienna. His performance as Don Carlo in 1967 was recorded by the house's own technicians and provides the starting point for a traversal of a seemingly boundless repertory that ranges from individual appearances such as Viscardo in Mercadante's Il giuramento to the roles with which he was most closely identified - Otello, Canio, Don José, Hoffmann, Andrea Chénier and Parsifal.
Orfeo’s selection ends with the role of Hermann in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, which Domingo sang under the house's current music director, Seiji Ozawa. But it also includes duets with long-standing partners such as Mirella Freni (Mimì and Desdemona), Agnes Baltsa (Carmen and Delilah) and Waltraud Meier (Eboli and Sieglinde), in every case producing fascinating performances in which the singers invariably strike sparks off one another.
The conductors of these excerpts are all eminent practitioners of their trade - they include not only Ozawa but also Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Christoph von Dohnányi, Georges Prêtre and James Levine - and they are joined for the final tracks by Domingo himself in repertory performances of Carmen and La Traviata and in a new production of Bellini's I Puritani recorded on its first night in 1994.
Although the present 3CD set marking the 40th anniversary of Domingo's Vienna State Opera début may turn out to represent no more than an intermediary stage in his career, it will none the less reflect an important chapter in the story of the living legend that is Plácido Domingo.
Conductors: Klobucar, Luisi, Karajan, Levine, Oren, Navarro, Slatkin, Santi, Albrecht,Viotti, Badea, Steinberg, Prêtre, Ozawa, Schneider, Dohnány, Stein, Domingo.
Vienna State Opera Live 1967 - 1999.
Contents:
Verdi:
- La Traviata: Preludio, Act 1 – Placido Domingo, cond.; September 11, 1993
- Don Carlo: “Il l’ho perduta… lo la vidi” – Tugomir Franc; Berislav Klobucar, conductor; May 25, 1967
- Don Carlo: “A mezzanotte, ai giardin della Regina” - Waltraud Meier; Leo Nucci; Fabio Luisi; 5/19/1992
- Il Trovatore: “Quale d’armi fragor poc’anzi intersi?... Ah! Sì, ben mio”; “Se m’ami ancor, se voce di figlio… Ai nostril monti” - with Raina Kabaivanska; Fiorenza Cossotto; Herbert von Karajan, conductor; May 1, 1978
- Otello: “Già nella notte densa” - with Mirella Freni; James Levine, conductor; June 1, 1982
- Otello: “Di ti giocondi, o sposo” - with Barbara Frittoli; Daniel Oren, conductor; Feb. 18, 1997
Puccini:
- La Boheme: “Marcello. Finalmente!” - with Mirella Freni; Alberto Rinaldi; Garcia Navarro, conductor; December 29, 1987
- La Fanciulla del West: “Risparmiate lo scherno… Ch’ella mi creda” - Silvano Carroli; Georg Tichy; Richard Burke; Peter Jelosits; Alexnader Diepold; Horst Nitsche; Peter Koves; Leonard Slatkin, cond.; April 12, 1988
- Tosca: “A voi… E lucevan le stele”; “E lucevan le strelle” - Peter Koves; Fabio Luisi, conductor; June 27, 1991
Giordano:
- Andrea Chenier: “Credo a una possanza arcane”; “Ora soave, sublime ora d’amore!” - with Gabriela Benackova-Cap; Hans Helm; Nello Santi, conductor; April 30, 1981
Leoncavallo:
- Pagliacci: “Recitar!... Vesti la giubba - Fabio Luisi, cond.; 4/16/1994
Bellini:
- I Puritani: Introduzione - Placido Domingo, cond.; May 5, 1994
Mercadante:
- Il Giuramento: “Vittoria! Siracusa!... Compita è ormai la giusta e terrible vendetta” - Gerd Albrecht, conductor; September 9, 1979
Meyerbeer:
- Le Prophete: “Ami, quell nuage obscurcit ta pensée?... Sous les vastes arceaux” - With Franz Hawlata; Torsten Kerl; David Cale Johnson; Marcello Viotti, conductor; May 21, 1993
Offenbach:
- Les Contes d’Hoffmann: “Va pour Klenzach! Il était une fois à la cour d’Eisenach” - With Herwig Pecoraro; Christian Badea, conductor; December 20, 1993
Bizet:
- Carmen: Entracte, act 2 - Placido Domingo, conductor; November 1, 1995
- Carmen: “Partez sans moi – Halte-là! Qui va làLa fleur que tu m’avais jetée” - With Elena Obraztsova; Cheryl Kanfoush; Axelle Gall; Heinz Zednik; Paul Wolfrum; Carlos Kleiber, conductor; December 9, 1978
- Carmen: “C’est toi! – C’est moi! - With Agnes Baltsa; Pinchas Steinberg, conductor; September 1, 1992
Saint-Saens:
- Samson et Dalila: “En ces lieux, malgré moi” - With Agnes Baltsa; Georges Pretre, conductor; December 22, 1990
Massenet:
- Herodiade: “Ne pouvant réprimer les élans de la foi” - Marcello Viotti, cond.; February 12, 1995
Tchaikovsky:
- Pique Dame: “Ya neveryu chtoby ty khotel smert Grafini” - With Rita Gorr; Seiji Ozawa, conductor; May 29, 1999
Wagner:
- Lohengrin: “Das süße Lied verhallt”; “In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Schritten” - With Catarina Ligendza; Peter Schneider, conductor; January 4, 1985
- Die Walkure: “Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater”; “Keiner ging, doch einer kam… Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond… Siegmund heiß ich”: “Siegmund! Sieh auf mich!” - With Waltraud Meier; Hildegard Behrens; Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor; December 19, 1992
- Parsifal: “Amfortas! Die Wunde!” - Horst Stein, conductor; September 1, 1991

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