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Giordano - Andrea Chénier | Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or C682062

Giordano - Andrea Chénier

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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or

Cat No: C682062

Barcode: 4011790682228

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 8th January 2007

Contents

Artists

Franco Corelli (Chénier)
Renata Tebaldi (Maddalena di Coigny)
Ettore Bastianini (Carlo Gérard)
Elisabeth Höngen (Contessa di Coigny)
Hilde Konetzni (Madelon)
Margareta Sjöstedt (Bersi)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Conductor

Lovro von Matacic

Works

Giordano, Umberto

Andrea Chenier

Artists

Franco Corelli (Chénier)
Renata Tebaldi (Maddalena di Coigny)
Ettore Bastianini (Carlo Gérard)
Elisabeth Höngen (Contessa di Coigny)
Hilde Konetzni (Madelon)
Margareta Sjöstedt (Bersi)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Conductor

Lovro von Matacic

About

The leading spinto tenor of his generation, Franco Corelli was closely associated with the title role in Umberto Giordano's French Revolutionary opera Andrea Chénier, a rôle in which he had few rivals. Here he brings his typical fervour, spirit and radiant high notes to all the work's ardent protestations of love - not just to the "Improvviso" in Act One.

In this live recording from the first night of the Vienna State Opera production on 26 June 1960, Corelli's partner is Renata Tebaldi. Contracted to rival recording companies (Decca and EMI),Tebaldi and Corelli made very few commercial recordings together and so this performance of Chénier is one to cherish. The main attraction is Corelli who blazes forth in the climaxes of Giordano's music. All-in-all a dream team, documented nowhere else, in  Giordano's most famous opera.

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