Word: giacinto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works. One of the happiest recent finds: Puccini's one-acter, II Tabarro, on an excellent RCA Victor LP. This somberly lyric tale of jealousy, betrayal and murder on a Seine River barge is sung with power and intensity by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Soprano Margaret Mas and Tenor Giacinto Prandelli, strongly backed by the Rome Opera's chorus and orchestra under Veteran Conductor Vincenzo Bellezza. As the betrayed husband, Gobbi magnificently defines-in a voice alternately liquid with longing and rough-edged with rage-the climate of mind that drives him to murder...
Third item in this batch of operatic rarities: Arrigo Boïto's Mefistofele, newly recorded by RCA Victor on 2 LPs (with Boris Christoff, Giacinto Prandelli, Orietta Moscucci; Orchestra and Chorus of the Rome Opera conducted by Vittorio Gui). Known chiefly as a poet and mighty librettist (Verdi's Otello and Falstaff), Boïto always remained an interesting oddity as a composer; he premiered his version of Goethe's Faust at La Scala in 1868 only to see it booed off the stage after two performances because of its experimentation with Wagnerian techniques. Intellectually more...
...Adriana Lecouvreur (Giacinto Prandelli, tenor; Carla Gavazzi, soprano; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Alfredo Simonetto conducting; 6 sides LP). A melodramatic love story by Francesco Cilèa (1866-1950) studded with romantic melodies and forceful scoring...