Verdi: Rigoletto

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Condition: Good

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Artist: Alan Opie · Arthur Davies · English National Opera Orchestra · Giuseppe Verdi · Helen Field · Jean Rigby · John Rawnsley · Linda McLeod · Mark Elder · Shilagh Squires · Terry Jenkins

Genre: Classical

CD Details

UPC 095115303023

Virtual SKU MWV.B00003XB1Y.G

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This latest release in Chandos’s popular Opera in English series is also, intelligently, a record of the later incarnation of Jonathan Miller’s successful adaptation of Rigoletto, which shifts its location from mediaeval Mantua to the dives of New York’s gangsters in the early ’50s. In practice, this means very minor adjustments to the text; this is a fluent translation the effect of which does not depend on the period in which sets and costumes place it. The vigorous performances remind us that this is an almost unsinkable work that does not require the greatest voices in the world–ENO singers such as John Rawnsley and Helen Field are solid singers of the second rank, while John Tomlinson is something rather more, making the comparatively minor part of Sparafucile hold the stage on each of his appearances. This is a very theatrical recording, intelligently cast in the minor roles; the veteran Norman Bailey makes the angry patriarch Monterone’s curse particularly telling. –Roz Kaveney

Track List

Prelude - 2:34
Act I, Scene One
'That pretty girl I've been seeing in the city' - 1:50
'If a woman should happen to catch my eye' - 2:06
'You're going? That's cruel' - 2:03
'It's happened! It's happened!' - 2:48
'I demand to see him' - 4:52
Act I, Scene Two
'The old man laid his curse on me!' - 5:10
'We are equals' - 3:52
'Gilda!' - 2:03
'Ah, do not demand of one so sad' - 5:03
'Oh, dear Giovanna, guard my daughter' - 5:46
'Giovanna, should have told him' - 3:12
'Love is the source of life, love is our sunlight' - 5:27
'Grualtier Maldè, you were the first to love me... Dearest name of my first love!' - 6:20
'I have returned, But why?' - 2:19
'Softly, softly we move into get her!' - 3:01
Act II
'Somebody came and stole her but when?' - 2:30
'Somewhere I see you weeping' - 3:05
'We went to look for her last night together' - 2:00
'The power of love is calling' - 3:13
'Poor little Rigoletto...' - 3:35
'Filthy rabble, you liars, you cowards' - 4:32
'My father!' - 1:29
'Speak now. They've left us' - 7:21
'I've one thing to do here before I am finished' - 1:13
'Old man, you're mistaken' - 2:12
Act III
'You love him?' - 2:24
'Women abandon us' - 3:04
'When first I came to talk to you' - 1:33
'If you want a faithful lover' - 4:40
'Eighty dollars you were asking' - 2:22
'He's such a young man, handsome and friendly' - 2:33
'I cannot think clearly' - 6:22
'Now for my vengeance, now the moment is ready' - 2:53
'He's there, murdered, oh yes' - 2:21
'But who can be inside here?' - 2:02
'It's all my fault' - 1:29
'Ah, soon, in Heaven' - 3:22

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