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Verdi, G: Otello - P. Domingo; C. Studer; S. Leiferkus; Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opera Bastille; Myung-Whun Chung

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Verdi, G: Otello - P. Domingo; C. Studer; S. Leiferkus; Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opera Bastille; Myung-Whun Chung

Giuseppe Verdi: Otello – Placido Domingo; Cheryl Studer; Sergei Leiferkus; Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opera Bastille; Myung-Whun Chung
Classical | 2 CDs | EAC Rip | 510 MB (3% recovery) | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Partial scans
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon | Recorded: 1993 | Published: 1994

The Gramophone Choice
Just as Othello is a difficult play to bring off in the theatre, so Otello is a difficult opera to bring off out of it. For some years, Domingo was, onstage, the greatest Otello of the age. On record, though, he has had less success. Leiferkus and Domingo have worked closely together in the theatre; and it shows in scene after scene – nowhere more so than in the crucial sequence in Act 2 where Otello so rapidly ingests Iago’s lethal poison. By bringing into the recording studio the feel and experience of a stage performance – meticulous study subtly modified by the improvised charge of the moment – both singers help defy the jinx that so often afflicts Otello on record. The skill of Leiferkus’s performance is rooted in voice and technique: clear diction, a very disciplined rhythmic sense and a mastery of all ornament down to the most mordant of mordents. Above all, he’s always there (usually stage right in this recording), steely-voiced, rabbiting on obsessively. We even hear his crucial interventions in the great Act 3 concertato.
Domingo is in superb voice; the sound seems golden as never before. Yet at the same time, it’s a voice that’s being more astutely deployed. To take that cruellest of all challenges to a studio-bound Otello, the great Act 3 soliloquy ‘Dio! mi potevi’, Domingo’s performance is now simpler, more inward, more intense. It helps that his voice has darkened, winning back some of its russet baritonal colourings.
Chung’s conducting is almost disarmingly vital. Verdi’s scoring is more Gallic than Germanic. The score sounds very brilliant in the hands of the excellent Opéra-Bastille orchestra, and, in Act 4, very beautiful. Maybe Chung is wary of the emotional depths and, occasionally, the rhythmic infrastructure is muddled and unclear. And yet, the freshness is all gain. He’s already a master of the big ensemble and the line of an act. Tension rarely slackens. On the rare occasions when it does, the mixing and matching of takes is probably to blame.
Studer’s is a carefully drawn portrait of a chaste and sober-suited lady. Perhaps Verdi had a sweeter-voiced singer in mind for this paragon of ‘goodness, resignation, and self-sacrifice’ (Verdi’s words, not Shakespeare’s). Studer’s oboe tones keep us at a certain distance, yet you’ll look in vain for a better Desdemona. What’s more, Studer is a singer who can single-mindedly focus the drama afresh, as she does more than once in Act 3.
DG’s recording is clear and unfussy and satisfyingly varied; Studer, in particular, is much helped by the beautifully open acoustic the engineers provide for the closing act. This is undoubtedly the best Otello on record since the early 1960s. It also happens to be the first time on disc that a great Otello at the height of his powers has been successfully caught in the context of a recording that can itself be generally considered worthy of the event, musically and technically.
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Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

Plácido Domingo (ten) – Otello;
Cheryl Studer (sop) - Desdemona
Sergei Leiferkus (bar) - Iago
Ramón Vargas (ten) - Cassio
Michael Schade (ten) - Roderigo
Denyce Graves (mez) - Emilia
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo (bass) - Lodovico
Giacomo Prestia (bass) - Montano
Philippe Duminy (bass) - Herald
Hauts-de-Seine Maîtrise;
Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra-Bastille, Paris
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

CD1
01. Act 1 : 'Una Vela! Una Vela!' (Jago) [0:03:48.89]
02. 'Esultate! L'Orgoglio Musulmano' (Otello) [0:02:10.64]
03. 'Roderigo, Ebben Che Pensi?' (Jago) [0:02:30.66]
04. 'Fuoco Di Gioia' (Coro) [0:02:32.66]
05. 'Roderigo, Beviam!' (Jago) [0:01:18.06]
06. 'Inaffia L'Ugola!' (Jago) [0:03:46.42]
07. 'Capitano, V'Attende La Fazione Ai Baluardi' (Jago) [0:01:10.64]
08. 'Abbasso Le Spade!' (Otello, Jago) [0:04:05.49]
09. 'Gia Nelle Notte Densa' (Otello, Desdemona) [0:08:59.50]
10. Act 2 : 'Non Ti Crucciar' (Jago, Cassio) [0:02:22.49]
11. 'Vanne! La Tua Meta Gia Vedo' (Jago) [0:00:28.33]
12. 'Credo In Un Dio Crudel' (Jago) [0:05:08.66]
13. 'Cio M'Accora…' - 'Che Parli?' (Jago, Otello) [0:04:11.50]
14. 'Dove Guardi Splendono Raggi' (Jago, Desdemona, Otello) [0:04:12.16]
15. 'D'Un Uom Che Geme Sotto Il Tuo Disdegno' (Desdemona, Otello) [0:01:49.57]
16. 'Se Inconsci, Contro Te, Sposo, Ho Peccato' (Desdemona, Otello, Jago) [0:03:03.93]
17. 'Desdemona Rea!' (Otello, Jago) [0:00:37.46]
18. 'Tu?! Indietro! Fuggi!!' (Otello) [0:00:54.42]
19. 'Ora E Per Sempre Addio' (Otello) [0:00:59.57]
20. 'Pace, Signor' (Jago, Otello) [0:02:29.69]
21. 'Era La Notte, Cassio Doemia' (Jago) [0:02:44.00]
22. 'Oh! Mostruosa Colpa!' (Otello, Jago) [0:01:41.80]
23. 'Si, Pel Ciel Marmoreo Giuro!' (Otello, Jago) [0:02:16.37]

CD2
01. Act 3 : 'La Vedetta Del Porto Ha Segnalato La Venta Galea' (Otello) [0:01:46.36]
02. 'Continua' - 'Qui Trarro Cassion' (Otello, Jago) [0:01:14.24]
03. 'Dio Ti Giovondi, O Sposo' (Desdemona, Otello) [0:04:32.86]
04. 'Esterrefatta Fisso' (Desdemona, Otello) [0:05:26.16]
05. 'Dio! Mi Potevi Scagliar Tutti I Mali' (Otello) [0:03:33.80]
06. 'Cassio E La!' (Jago, Otello) [0:00:54.40]
07. 'Vieni; L'Aula E Deserta' (Jago, Otello) [0:00:44.84]
08. '…E Intano, Giacche Non Si Stanco Mai' (Jago, Otello) [0:04:02.60]
09. 'Quest'E Il Segnale' (Jago, Otello) [0:02:19.96]
10. 'Il Doge Ed Il Senato Salutano' (Otello, Desdemona, Jago) [0:02:58.44]
11. 'Messer!…Il Doge…' (Otello, Jago) [0:01:46.53]
12. 'A Terra!… Si Nel… Livido Fango' (Desdemona) [0:01:59.00]
13. 'Quell' Innocente Un Fremito' (Emila, Cassio, Roderigo, Lodovico, Coro, Desdemona, Jago, Otello) [0:04:03.29]
14. 'Fuggite!' (Otello, Desdemona, Jago) [0:02:18.50]
15. Act Four : 'Era Piu Calom?' (Desdemona) [0:03:55.80]
16. 'Mia Madrea Aveva Una Pvera Anvella' (Desdemona) [0:00:56.20]
17. 'Piangea Contando Mell'Erma Landa' (Desdemona) [0:06:39.56]
18. 'Ave Maria, Piena Di Grazia' (Desdemona) [0:04:42.46]
19. 'Chi E La? Otella?' (Desdemona, Otello) [0:03:25.13]
20. 'Diceste Questa Sera La Vostre Preci?' (Otello, Desdemona) [0:02:37.70]
21. 'Aprite! Aprite!' (Emilia, Otello, Desdemona, Cassio, Jago, Lodovico, Montano) [0:02:57.66]
22. 'Niun Me Tema' (Otello) [0:05:42.46]

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