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Ljuba Welitsch: Prima Voce | Nimbus - Prima Voce NI7959

Ljuba Welitsch: Prima Voce

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Label: Nimbus - Prima Voce

Cat No: NI7959

Barcode: 0710357795923

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st June 2009

Contents

Works

Mozart
Don Giovanni: Don Ottavio, son morta!...Or sai, chi l’onore / Crudele? Ah no, mio bene!...Non mi dir

Weber
Der Freischutz

Weber
Wie nahte mir der / Schlummer…Leise, Leise

Verdi
Un Ballo in Maschera: Ma dall’arido stelo divulsa / Morro, ma prima in grazia

Verdi
Aida: Ritorna vincitor!

Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Tatiana’s Letter, Scene

Tchaikovsky
Queen of Spades: Ich muss am Fenster lehnen / Es geht auf Mitternacht

Puccini
Tosca: Love Duet / Vissi d’arte

R Strauss
Salome: Final Scene

J Strauss
Die Fledermaus: Czardas, Klange der Heimat

Lehar
Die Lustige Witwe: Viljalied

Lehar
Zigeunerliebe: Lied und Czardas

Makeben
The Dubarry (after Millocker): Ich schenk’ mein Herz

Artists

Ljuba Welitsch (soprano)
Alessio de Paolis (tenor)
Richard Tucker (tenor)

Works

Mozart
Don Giovanni: Don Ottavio, son morta!...Or sai, chi l’onore / Crudele? Ah no, mio bene!...Non mi dir

Weber
Der Freischutz

Weber
Wie nahte mir der / Schlummer…Leise, Leise

Verdi
Un Ballo in Maschera: Ma dall’arido stelo divulsa / Morro, ma prima in grazia

Verdi
Aida: Ritorna vincitor!

Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Tatiana’s Letter, Scene

Tchaikovsky
Queen of Spades: Ich muss am Fenster lehnen / Es geht auf Mitternacht

Puccini
Tosca: Love Duet / Vissi d’arte

R Strauss
Salome: Final Scene

J Strauss
Die Fledermaus: Czardas, Klange der Heimat

Lehar
Die Lustige Witwe: Viljalied

Lehar
Zigeunerliebe: Lied und Czardas

Makeben
The Dubarry (after Millocker): Ich schenk’ mein Herz

Artists

Ljuba Welitsch (soprano)
Alessio de Paolis (tenor)
Richard Tucker (tenor)

About

Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano. She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936. Engagements followed in Graz, Hamburg, Munich and finally at the Vienna State Opera. Known for her red hair and exuberant vivacity, her most famous role was that of Salome, which she performed under the composer, Richard Strauss, in 1944 on his 80th birthday. She sang the same role for her London debut in 1947 and for her first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, New York on 4 February 1949.

In this compilation, Prima Voce have carefully chosen recordings of music covering a number of roles which Viennese, British and American fans in particular associated her with. In two extracts from Mozart’s Don Giovanni as Donna Anna, a role which introduced her to British audiences, from the opening recitative of ‘Or sai chi l’onore’ (here ably assisted by the veteran Metropolitan Opera comprimario tenor Alessio de Paolis), one is struck by her brilliant yet beautiful tone and her attack on the high notes in the aria proper.

Total Playing Time: 1 hr 48 mins.

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