Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, R.Tebaldi, F.Corelli, Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2002)
Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2002/1958)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 7.79 Gb (DVD9) | 160 min
Classical | Hardy Classic | Sub: English, Francais
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 7.79 Gb (DVD9) | 160 min
Classical | Hardy Classic | Sub: English, Francais
“…Tebaldi proved at the Maggio Musicale at Florence in 1953 under Mitropoulos that Leonora was to be among her most successful roles, and here she confirms the fact in spades with her lustrous, effortlessly shaped and eloquent traversal of the role. By her side she has the incomparable Corelli, singing his first Don Alvaro, and revealing that his brilliant, exciting yet plangent tone is precisely the right instrument to project Alvaro's loves and sorrows. At this stage of his career his thrilling upper register and incisive delivery of the text were at their most potent, as he makes abundantly clear in aria and duet. As his antagonist, Bastianini sings with the kind of Verdian élan seemingly now extinct among his breed. He may not be the most subtle of Verdian baritones, but here his macho approach ideally suits Don Carlo's vengeful imprecations.
If that weren't enough vocal splendour for one occasion, there's Christoff – yet another member of the cast at the peak of his career – intoning Padre Guardiano's dignified utterances in that unique if not always entirely Italianate manner of his. Renato Capecchi for long made the part of Melitone his own: one can see and hear why here in his amusing yet never overstated sense of the role's comic possibilities. The voices are caught with very little distortion in goodish sound. The original film has suffered some deterioration over the years, but its recent restoration yields far better results than was once the case on dim VHS copies: this DVD derives from RAI's original master copy.
Pleasure is completed by the bonus of an interview with Tebaldi.” (Gramophone Classical Music Guide)
Cast:
Il Marchese di Calatrava - Giorgio Algorta
Leonora, sua figlia - Renata Tebaldi
Don Carlo di Vargas, suo figlio - Ettore Bastianini
Don Alvaro - Franco Corelli
Preziosilla, giovane zingara - Oralia Dominguez
Padre Guardiano - Boris Christoff
Fra Melitone - Renato Capecchi
Curra, camerieri di Leonora - Anna Di Stasio
Un Alcade - Giuseppe Forgione
Mastro Trabuco - Mariano Caruso
Un Chirurgo - Gianni Bardi
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo Napoli
Conductor - Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, R.Tebaldi, F.Corelli, Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2002)
Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, R.Tebaldi, F.Corelli, Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2002)
Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, R.Tebaldi, F.Corelli, Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2002)
Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, R.Tebaldi, F.Corelli, Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2002)
