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Edita Gruberova: Vienna State Opera 1977-2010 | Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or C857112

Edita Gruberova: Vienna State Opera 1977-2010

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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or

Cat No: C857112

Barcode: 4011790857220

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 5th March 2012

Contents

Works

Bellini, Vincenzo

I Puritani
» La dama d'Arturo ...Oh, vieni al tempio
Norma
» Deh! Con te li prendi ...Mira, o Norma

Donizetti, Gaetano

Don Pasquale
» Pronta son; purch'io non manchi (sung in German)
» Quel guardo il cavaliere (sung in German)
Linda di Chamounix
» Ah! tardai troppo ...O luce di quest'anima
Lucia di Lammermoor
» Regnava nel silenzio ...pito in estasi
» Sulla tomba che rinserra
Lucrezia Borgia
» Com' e bello!
Maria Stuarda
» Quando di luce rosea
Roberto Devereux
» Scellerato! ...Va! La morte sul capo ti pende

Massenet, Jules

Manon
» Allons! Il le faut pour lui-meme!... Adieu, notre petite table (Act 2)
» Ces murs silencieux ...Oui, c'est moi
» Suis-je gentille ainsi?... Obeissons, quand leur voix appelle (Act 3)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, K384
» Martern aller Arten
Don Giovanni, K527
» Fuggi, crudele, fuggi!
Lucio Silla, K135
» Vanne, t'affretta ...Ah se il crudel periglio

Strauss II, Johann

Die Fledermaus
» Mein Herr Marquis 'Adele's laughing song'

Strauss, Richard

Ariadne auf Naxos, op.60
» Grossmachtige Prinzessin

Verdi, Giuseppe

La Traviata
» Sempre libera
» Un di felice, eterea (Act 1)

Artists

Edita Gruberova (soprano)
Hans Helm
Hector Urbon
Czeslawa Slania
Peter Dvorsky
Giuseppe Patane
Karl Bohm
Jerry Hadley
Ivan Fischer
Arnold Ostman
Alfredo Kraus
Pinchas Steinberg
Francisco Araiza
Adam Fischer
Kurt Rydl
Yu Chen
Ramon Vargas
Marcello Viotti
Michele Pertusi
Peter Jelosits
Friedrich Haider
Carlos Alvarez
Horst Stein
Bruno Campanella

Works

Bellini, Vincenzo

I Puritani
» La dama d'Arturo ...Oh, vieni al tempio
Norma
» Deh! Con te li prendi ...Mira, o Norma

Donizetti, Gaetano

Don Pasquale
» Pronta son; purch'io non manchi (sung in German)
» Quel guardo il cavaliere (sung in German)
Linda di Chamounix
» Ah! tardai troppo ...O luce di quest'anima
Lucia di Lammermoor
» Regnava nel silenzio ...pito in estasi
» Sulla tomba che rinserra
Lucrezia Borgia
» Com' e bello!
Maria Stuarda
» Quando di luce rosea
Roberto Devereux
» Scellerato! ...Va! La morte sul capo ti pende

Massenet, Jules

Manon
» Allons! Il le faut pour lui-meme!... Adieu, notre petite table (Act 2)
» Ces murs silencieux ...Oui, c'est moi
» Suis-je gentille ainsi?... Obeissons, quand leur voix appelle (Act 3)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, K384
» Martern aller Arten
Don Giovanni, K527
» Fuggi, crudele, fuggi!
Lucio Silla, K135
» Vanne, t'affretta ...Ah se il crudel periglio

Strauss II, Johann

Die Fledermaus
» Mein Herr Marquis 'Adele's laughing song'

Strauss, Richard

Ariadne auf Naxos, op.60
» Grossmachtige Prinzessin

Verdi, Giuseppe

La Traviata
» Sempre libera
» Un di felice, eterea (Act 1)

Artists

Edita Gruberova (soprano)
Hans Helm
Hector Urbon
Czeslawa Slania
Peter Dvorsky
Giuseppe Patane
Karl Bohm
Jerry Hadley
Ivan Fischer
Arnold Ostman
Alfredo Kraus
Pinchas Steinberg
Francisco Araiza
Adam Fischer
Kurt Rydl
Yu Chen
Ramon Vargas
Marcello Viotti
Michele Pertusi
Peter Jelosits
Friedrich Haider
Carlos Alvarez
Horst Stein
Bruno Campanella

About

If opera enthusiasts had to choose a singer as the quintessential coloratura soprano, the name of Edita Gruberova would be bound to come up. To the delight of her audiences, she has spent the last four decades exploring every corner of the coloratura repertory. The fact that throughout this period she has retained her timbre, flexibility and an upper range extending above top C is due to two factors: her sovereign technique and her intelligent choice of repertoire.

After making her professional début with a provincial company in her native Slovakia, Gruberova joined the Vienna State Opera, which remains her artistic home to this day.

This new compilation of high points from Orfeo's Wiener Staatsoper Live series showcases her earliest decisive successes in the sort of lighter coloratura roles often sung by soubrettes: Norina in 'Don Pasquale' and, above all, Zerbinetta in 'Ariadne auf Naxos', a role to which she returned for 35 years. Lucia stayed for 30 years, allowing her to cast a powerful spell on audiences not only in Vienna but all over the world.

Starting with Lucia and with three of Mozart’s soprano roles, Donna Anna, Konstanze and Giunia in the rarely heard 'Lucio Silla', she began to develop in the direction of dramatic coloratura roles, a development that finally enabled her to tackle Bellini’s 'Norma'.

Between these two extremes, Edita Gruberova’s career contains many other milestones that may all be enjoyed in this portrait from Vienna. Roles represented here include the titular heroine of Verdi’s 'La traviata' (with Alfredo Kraus as one of her many world-class partners), the flighty Manon in Massenet’s opera of the same name – one of only a handful of excursions into the French repertory – and her irresistible Adele in Johann Strauss’ operetta, 'Die Fledermaus'.

Central to the second half of Edita Gruberova’s 40-year reign at the Vienna State Opera are leading roles in bel canto operas: Elvira in 'I Puritani' and four of Donizetti’s dramatic coloratura roles, Elisabetta in 'Roberto Devereux' plus Maria Stuarda, Linda di Chamounix and, most recently, Lucrezia Borgia.

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