Word: petrella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Puccini. Composer Rossellini's Vortex, for which he wrote the libretto as well as the music, takes place in an unidentified "city of Central Europe" where factory workers are engaged in a hopeless revolt against the oppressive power of the state. Anna, the heroine (Soprano Clara Petrella), has lost her husband in the revolt, is separated from her children and her old friend Renato (Tenor Ferrando Fegrari). Anna escapes the soldiers assigned to crush the revolt, is briefly reunited with Renato, who becomes her lover. She tries to flee with him to America, but is arrested and shot...
...Unlike Cerquetti, slim, dark-haired Soprano Clara Petrella, 32, has built her success as much on sheer dramatic ability as on her voice. Her voice is lyric rather than dramatic, and at La Scala she has become one of the foremost performers of contemporary music. At her best in lighter roles, she has recently turned histrionic, now longs to sing Minnie in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West...
Some would say that Francesco Cenci richly deserved to die. Taking his wife and daughter from their palace in Rome, he had shut them up in the lonely castle of La Petrella on the Naples road. There they remained for months, imprisoned vic tims of Cenci's brutality and suspicions. By any standards, Cenci was a rotter's rotter. Gross and vulgar as he was rich, he had been convicted of sodomy in the papal courts and paid the enormous fine of 100,000 scudi. His debaucheries were the talk of a Rome that was no stranger...
Montemezzi: L'Amore del Tre Re (Sesto Bruscantini, bass; Renato Ca-pecchi, baritone; Amedeo Berdini, tenor; Clara Petrella, soprano; Aldo Bertocci, tenor; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 4 sides LP). A powerful and passionate performance of Montemezzi's opera about a blind king who throttles his adulterous daughter-in-law. Chiefly remarkable for the beautiful bass singing of the king (Bruscantini). Recording: good...