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Collectible : Catalani: La Wally / Tebaldi, del Monaco, Cappuccilli; Cleva
Catalani: La Wally / Tebaldi, del Monaco, Cappuccilli; Clevaby: Alfredo Catalani, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Fausto Cleva, Piero Cappuccilli, Justino Diaz, Alfredo Mariotti, Stefania Malagu, Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra, Lidia Marimpietri Release Date February 13, 1990 Yes, this is certainly a 5-star product, and easily the best recording of "La Wally" available. I just want to correct the apologetic comments that appear in other reviews ("this is not a great opera," etc.). In my view it is a very great opera; indeed one of the greatest of all. Catalani is so good a composer that as soon as you give him a fair chance you wonder why he is not performed far more often. Negative criticism of "La Wally" tends to rather miss the point. If you listen to it expecting "verismo" and something in the "Cavalleria" mold you'll probably find the story silly and the music not full-blooded enough. But it's not "verismo;" it's a kind of poetic drama that Catalani, alone among his Italian contemporaries, was trying to develop. ... Read More: |
