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PAGLIACCI
--Standard Repertory--
By Ruggero Leoncavallo
VIDEO: A) Newly re-released video of Jon
Vickers dir. Franco Zefirelli--c.1980. For some, Vickers' searing
Canio is the whole show, as the visuals leave something to be
desired-- sentiments expressed in a recent review in Opera News. I
still have fond memories of this film from its first PBS showing many
years ago, not just for Vickers' unique intensity but for the
amazingly well-preserved Silvio of the middle-aged baritone, Rolando
Panerai. This film is NOT to be confused with the Zefirelli-directed
Pagliacci featuring Placido Domingo--not so
exciting--nor the abridged Vickers telecast of 1955 opposite Likova.
[G.R.]
B) Also, heavily adapted film from the thirties of
the opera sung (and spoken) in English; features Austrian/British
tenor Richard Tauber, arguably the most thoroughly accomplished tenor
of this past century; he is riveting in this, the closest to any kind
of document we have of Tauber in a complete performance of a familiar
operatic role in the standard repertoire. Is available either on
Lyric Distribution [Legato] or BCS [Bel Canto
Society] [G.R.]
AUDIO: A) EMI: Giuseppe di Stefano, Maria
Callas, Serafin conducting (1954); Mono
B-1) BONGIOVANNI: Antonio Paoli, Giuseppina Huguet, Sabajno
conducting (supervised by the composer, Leoncavallo himself presided
over this pioneering set using the primitive acoustic recording
process [a recording horn, not an electronic microphone] in
1907); primitive Mono [G.R.]
B-2) VAI: Jon Vickers, Joan Carlyle, Bartoletti conducting
("live," Buenos Aires, 1968); Stereo
C) EMI: Franco Corelli, Lucine Amara, von Matacic
conducting (1960); Stereo
D-1) MELODRAM / PHONOGRAPHE: Francesco Merli, Rosetta
Pampanini, Molajoli conducting (1930); Mono
D-2) EMI: Beniamino Gigli, Iva Pacetti, Ghione conducting
(1934); Mono
D-3) EMI: Jussi Bjoerling, Victoria de los Angeles, Cellini
conducting (1953); Mono
D-4) DG: Carlo Bergonzi, Joan Carlyle, von Karajan
conducting (1965); Stereo
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