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Year: 2007
PUCCINI: La Bohème
La Bohème, opera in four acts.
Music composed by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi lllica, based
on episodes from Henri Murger’s Scènes de la vie de Bohème.
ROSSINI: Il Viaggio a Reims
Rossini’s last Italian opera, staged in 1825 as a part of Charles X’s coronation festivities, is a bizarre creation — a sassy little farce capped with a coronation cantata in the best traditions of staged court entertainment, from 16th-century Italian intermedi through their Baroque and Classic operatic progeny.
EDER: Musik f¸r die Felsenreitschule
While many associate it with traditional music, the Salzburg Festival is also a venue for new
productions and, to a degree, new compositions.
ROSSINI: Semiramide
The reason for being of this set is Gruberova’s wish to record as much as possible of her repertory (on her own label as most of the majors were either not interested in recording belcanto operas or had their own stars like Decca’s Joan Sutherland).
VERDI: Aida
Who is the potential consumer for this DVD release of a 1953 Italian film version of Verdi’s Aida, featuring Sophia Loren’s stunning physical presence and Renata Tebaldi’s stunning vocalism in the title role?