TUTTO VERDI – this edition to mark the Verdi bicentenary sets standards by which all similar projects will be judged. It includes all twenty-six operas by the greatest Italian stage composer, together with his immortal Requiem, all of them in definitive performances from the Teatro Regio in Parma.
“This is how Verdi should be played” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on TUTTO VERDI
With their “comedy for music” in the spirit of Mozart, Richard Strauss and his inspired librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal created the most popular of all their works and one of the most frequently performed operas of all time. In the guise of a gossamer-light and supremely entertaining high-class comedy, Der Rosenkavalier touches on universal themes such as love, sex, marital fidelity and the changes that human relations undergo over time – and all of it set to music of the most glorious kind imaginable. With its stellar cast under the inspired direction of Harry Kupfer, the 2014 Salzburg Festival’s production of Der Rosenkavalier was one of the most internationally acclaimed interpretations of the work since the start of the new millennium. “A musical feast from beginning to end“ (Wiener Zeitung).
AIDA
Iano Tamar, Iain Paterson,
Tatiana Serjan, Rubens
Pellizzari
Vienna Symphonic Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi
Staged by Graham Vick
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Raffaela Angeletti
Nino Batatunashvili
Annunziato Vestri
Fondatione Orchestra
Regionale Delle Marche
Daniele Callegari
Staged by Pier Luigi Pizzi
TURANDOT
Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti,
Javier Agulló
Orquestra de la Comunitat
Valenciana
Zubin Metha
Staged by Chen Kaige
LA TRAVIATA
Svetla Vassileva, Massimo
Giordano, Valdimir Stoyanov
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro
Regio di Parma
Yuri Temirkanov
Staged by Karl-Ernst & Ursel
Herrmann
RIGOLETTO
Francesco Demuro, Leo Nucci
Nino Machaidze, Marco Spotti
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro
Regio di Parma
Massimo Zanetti
Staged by Stefano Vizioli
La traviata
1. È strano! È strano! … Ah, fors’è lui … Sempre libera
2. Lunge da lei … De’ miei bollenti spiriti
3. Di Provenza il mar, il suol
Rigoletto
4. Questa o quella
5. Gualtier Maldè … Caro nome che il mio cor
6. Cortigiani, vil razza dannata
7. La donna è mobile
Don Carlo
8. Fontainebleau! … Io la vidi e al suo sorriso
9. Ah, più mai non vedrò la regina! … O don fatale
Aida
10. Se quel guerrier io fossi! … Celeste Aida
11. Ritorna vincitor! … Numi, pietà del mio soffrir!
Luisa Miller
12. Quando le sere al placido
Il trovatore
13. Stride la vampa!
14. Ah! Sì, ben mio … L’onda de’ suoni mistici … Di quella pira
I vespri siciliani
15. Mercé, dilette amiche
Un ballo in maschera
16. Forse la soglia attinse … Ma se m’è forza perderti
La forza del destino
17. Pace! Pace, mio Dio!
18. La vita è inferno all’infelice … O tu che in seno agli angeli
Otello
19. Piangea cantando nell’erma landa … Ave Maria, piena di grazia
20. Niun mi tema
OPERA CHORUSES
Nabucco
“Gli arredi festivi giù cadano infranti”
“Va’, pensiero, sull’ali dorate”
I lombardi alla prima crociata
“Gerusalem! Gerusalem!”
“O Signore, dal tetto natio”
Ernani
“Esultiamo! Letizia ne innondi!”
“Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia”
I due Foscari: “Silenzio, mistero”
Attila: “Urli, rapine”
Macbeth
“Tre volte miagola la gatta in fregola”
“Patria oppressa!”
I masnadieri: “Le rube, gli stupri, gl’incendi, le morti”
La battaglia di Legnano: “Viva Italia! Sacro un patto”
Rigoletto: “Zitti, zitti, moviamo a vendetta”
Il trovatore
“Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie”
“Squilli, echeggi la tromba guerriera”
La traviata: “Noi siamo zingarelle … Di Madride noi siam mattadori”
La forza del destino
“La Vergine degli angeli”
“Compagni, sostiamo”
Don Carlo: “Spuntato ecco il dì d’esultanza”
Aida: “Gloria all’Egitto, ad Iside”
Otello: „Fuoco di gioia!
Falstaff: “Tutto nel mondo è burla”
? Symphonies Nos. 3 + 4 will continue the release of the complete Mahler cycle with Paavo Järvi and the
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, which since the 80s became a “powerful Mahler orchestra”
(Frankfurter Rundschau)
? Outstanding soloists: Waltraud Meier (Symphony No. 3), who sung at Bayreuth Festival, MET, Covent
Garden, La Scala etc. with conductors as Muti, ‚Abbado, Thielemann, Mehta etc.
Genia Kühmeier (Symphony No. 4), who sung at MET, Covent Garden, La Scala, Salzburg Festival, Vienna
State Opera, Los Angeles, San Francisco etc.
? Bonus: Introductions to Symphonies Nos 3 + 4 with Paavo Järvi
Mahler Symphony No. 3
? “… excellent prepared orchestra …“ “… Waltraud Meier, a worldwide celebrated singer …“ FAZ
? “… this is simply terrific.“ Frankfurter Rundschau
Mahler Symphony No. 4
? “Genia Kühmeier sang with a trancendental immaculacy tone.“ FAZ
? “Great orchestra, oustanding conductor.“ Bild Zeitung
The Wiener Staatsballett is one of the great companies in the world. Yet never before had Rudolf Nureyev’s world-famous choreography of The Nutcracker been performed in Vienna. The present production remedies this omission by presenting Nureyev’s final, 1985 Paris version with two magnificent young soloists and the splendid Vienna corps de ballet. Nureyev’s version enjoys a particular standing in the history of this well-known ballet in that it was the first to incorporate the psychology of E. T. A Hoffman’s fairy tale on which Tchaikovsky’s ballet is based. The critic Clive Barnes set the tone by remarking: “No version of The Nutcracker that we have ever seen has been more potently dramatic; few have displayed so sharp an imprint of personal style. “Elegant, romantic, delightful” (Die Presse) · “Outstanding soloists” (Der Standard)
