1966 Sutherland Bellini Beatrice di Tenda I Puritani Norma Vinyl LP Record VG+

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1966 Sutherland Bellini Beatrice di Tenda I Puritani Norma Vinyl LP Record VG+ Record Grade per Goldmine Standard: VG+ Sutherland, Bellini – Beatrice Di Tenda / I Puritani / Norma / La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini was born at Catania in Sicily on November 3rd 1801 and diedat Puteaux near Paris on 23rd September 1835. He had his first great success with 11 Pitalain 1827 and from then until his death eight years later he was the darling of Europe.Bellini was not an innovator and neither was he an imitator; his voice was his own,passionate and full of sentiment but civilized and exerting a fascination admitted evenby Wagner.Beatrice di J'enda was Bellini’s penultimate opera; it was first given at the Teatro laFenice, Venice on 16th March 1833 with the great Giudetta Pasta in the title-role. The plotbears a distinct resemblance to the tragic story of Anne Boleyn. Beatrice, wife of Filippo,Duke of Milan, has been condemned to- death by her husband on trumped-up charges ofadultery and conspiracy, Filippo wishing to marry Beatrice’s lady-in-waiting Agnese. Thearia ‘Deh, se un urna’, in which Beatrice bids farewell to life as she awaits execution,ends the opera.7 Puritani was Bellini’s last opera, written for the Theatre Italien in Paris and pro-duced there on January 25th 1835 with Grisi, Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache in theprincipal parts. Although not, perhaps, his best work it contains some of Bellini’s mostoriginal and beautiful music. The story concerns the love of the Cavalier Arturo and theRoundhead (Puritan) Elvira, Arturo’s supposed treachery, Elvira’s madness and subse-quent return to sanity and culminates in the end of the Civil War and the promise ofwedded bliss for the happy pair.In the polacca ‘Son vergin vezzosa' Elvira expresses her joy at the approachingwedding and tries on the beautiful veil given her by Arturo. Later, however, Arturo isseen leaving the castle with an unknown woman (actually Queen Henrietta Maria, widowof the executed Charles I whom he is escorting to safety) and Elvira, suspecting theworst, loses her reason. In the famous mad scene Elvira enters the hall of the castledishevelled and plainly deranged. She sings (O rendetemi la speme . . . Qui la voce')of her love and betrayal, and demands to have hope restored to her or be allowed to die.Her uncle Giorgio and Riccardo (a former suitor) attempt to comfort her but she con-tinues her lament until, imagining Arturo to be returning to her ("Tien, diletlv'), sheallows herself to be escorted to her room.Norma, first produced at La Scala, Milan on December 26th 1831 is, in every respectBellini’s greatest work. He clothed the story of a priestess who breaks her vows in Roman-occupied Gaul in music of grave and noble beauty unlike anything he had written pre-viously and only to be attempted by the greatest singers. Norma, a Druidic high-priestess,has fallen in love with the Roman pro-consul Pollione and, in violation of her oath ofchastity, borne him two sons. In the recitative and aria 'Sediziose voci . . . casta diva'she prays for peace between her people and their oppressors and in the cabaletta 'Jb.f Belloin me ritorna (sung as an aside) she gives voice to her love while the Druids sing of thecoming day of vengeance.No greater contrast to the tragic Norma could be found than in £.a Sonnambula.First performed on March 6th 1831 at the Teatro Carcano, Milan; its elegant and gracefulmelodies decorating a simple, charming story show perfectly (within.his limits) Bellini’ssense of the fitness of things. The tale of a Swiss village girl whose sleepwalking brings' herunhappiness (and close to death) drew from the composer his most beautiful single melody.This is Amina’s 'Ab, non credea in which the poor girl sings, in her sleep, of her lostlove Elvino (who mistakenly supposes her to be unfaithful to him) and implores him toreturn to her. Elvino, who has by now learned the truth, wakes her up and the operaconcludes with the joyous 'Ab! Non giunge' in which Amina, Elvino and the villagersvariously express their happiness.LESLIE YEATSSIDE ONE1.DEH! SE UN’ URNA("Beatrice di Tenda” — Bellini; Romani)(With the Ambrosian Singers)2.SON VERGIN VEZZOSA("I Puritani” — Bellini; Pepoli)3.O RENDETEMI LA SPEME ... QUI LA VOCE ...... VIEN, DILETTO("I Puritani” — Bellini; Pepoli)(with Ezio Flagello & Renato Capecchi)JOAN SUTHERLANDwith the(1) London Symphony Orchestra(2 & 3) Orchestra of The Maggio Musicale Fiorentinoconducted byRICHARD BONYNGESIDE TWO1. SEDIZIOSE VOCI... CASTA DIVA ... AH! BELLO A. ME("Norma” — Bellini; Romani)2. AH, NON CREDEA MIRARTI . . . AH! NON GIUNGE("La Sonnambula” — Bellini; Romani)JOAN SUTHERLANDwith the(1) Chorus and Orchestra of The Royal Opera House,Covent Gardenconducted by FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI(2) Chorus and Orchestra of The Maggio Musicale Fiorentinoconducted byRICHARD BONYNGE LP385

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