Puccini - Edgar / Scotto, Bergonzi, Killbrew, Sardinero, OONY, NYCO Children's Chorus, Eve Queler Digital Life Music

Puccini - Edgar / Scotto, Bergonzi, Killbrew, Sardinero, OONY, NYCO Children's Chorus, Eve Queler
by: Giacomo Puccini, Opera Orchestra of New York, New York City Opera Children's Chorus, Eve Queler, Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Gwendolyn Killebrew, Vicente Sardinero

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074643458429
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: June 20, 1989
Sales Rank: 194904
Studio: Sony

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- THE ONE TO HAVE
FIRST, THANKS TO MAESTRA EVE QUELER FOR HAVING CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO NEW YORK'S OPERATIC WORLD BY DARING TO PRESENT OPERAS THAT HAVE NOT MADE IT TO NYCO OR THE MET, AND SECOND, THANKS FOR RECORDING SO MANY OF THEM!
BERGONZI, SCOTTO AND SARDINERO AT THEIR BEST. GWENDOLYN KILLEBREW, A BRILLIANT BLACK AMERICAN SOPRANO SADLY MUCH UNDEREPRESENTED IN THE CATALOGUE. GLORIOUS MUSIC. THIS IS THE ONE TO HAVE!

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- Enormously captivating music
I have only taken an interest in opera in the past two years - (to encourage anyone else only just now coming around to it). This handsomely packaged double CD is a treasure, and anyone who loves beautiful music ought to love this obscure production.
As one reveiwer put it, "This just has to be staged".
I suppose the libretto is a little odds bodkins...but most of the world was in turmoil in that day - or soon to be, even quite out of control. Moreover, Puccini, son of a church music composer, naturally would emerge painting morality tales in broad strokes. Turandot comes to mind...how evil is so very disturbingly characatured in that opera,... is so bad that it is uncomfortable, in the extreme to endure. If you or I were composers, we too would want a storyline with bold moves this way, then that way...otherwise we would all wind up sounding as monotonous as boiled potatoes.

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- How has this been overlooked?
What an amazing piece of work! The young Puccini was much more Wagnerian in vision, but less of the master theatre man he was to be. In LeVilli and Edgar, he battles with rewards of the soul vs. those of the flesh. The music is rhapsodic, immense- inspired. If I had never had heard the name Puccini and stumbled upon this music, it would be one of handful of great works that I would turn to again and again.
The libretto is no masterpiece, but it isn't as bad as some imply. The music is heroic, sublime..some of his greatest.The music is a masterpiece. Someone HAS to perform this onstage.
In this live performance, Bergonzi is wonderful, despite missing one of the most intensely dramatic high C endings in opera. Scotto is at her best; totally involved, singing some of the most glorious soprano music you could ever hope to hear.

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- Puccini's Edgar
If you like Puccini buy this.
Puccini's first full Opera and second ever after 'La Ville'.

This is my favourite of all his Opera's and this performance is both beutifully sung and orchestrated and full of wonderful songs. (This is a live recording but don't be put off by that - )

Amazing its so underrated and under performed. Worth every penny.

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