Description
Donizetti - Parisina D'Este / Montserrat Caballé, Jerome Pruett, Louis Quilico, James Morris / Conductor: Eve Queler / MRF Records 3x LP 1974
MRF-107-S
Parisina (also known as Parisina d'Este) is an opera (tragedia lirica), in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Byron's 1816 poem Parisina.
The characters of Parisina and Duke Azzo in both Byron's poem and Donizetti's opera are very loosely based on the historical figures of Parisina Malatesta (the daughter of Andrea Malatesta) and Niccolò III d'Este.
Parisina premiered on 17 March 1833 at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. A performance at the Teatro Argentina in Rome is the setting for a key scene in chapter 34 of the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
Label: MRF Records – MRF-107-S
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Box Set
Country: USA, Canada & Europe
Released: 1974
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera
Tracklist:
| A | Act I, Sc. 1 | 28:50 | |
| B | Act I, Sc. 2 | 24:55 | |
| C | Act I, Sc. 2 Concld., Act II, Sc. 1 | 31:55 | |
| D | Act II, Sc. 2 & Sc. 3 | 28:37 | |
| E | Act III (complete) | 30:35 | |
| F1 | Donizetti: Composizione da Camera, Vol II: "Ah! Rammenta o bella Irene" | ||
| F2 | Donizetti: Betty: "In questo semplice e modesto Asilo" | ||
| F3 | Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro: "Vieni, o tu, che ognor io chiamo" | ||
| F4 | Bellini: Bianca e Fernando: "Sorgi oh padre" | ||
| F5 | Rossini: Tancredi: "Di tanti palpiti" | ||
| F6 | Vivaldi: Ercole Sul Termodonte: "Chiare Onde" | ||
| F7 | Vivaldi: Ercole Sul Termodonte: "Da due venti" |
- Conductor – Eve Queler
- Libretto By – Felice Romani
- Liner Notes – Thomas G. Kaufman
- Vocals [Azzo] – Louis Quilico
- Vocals [Ernesto] – James Morris (5)
- Vocals [Imelda] – Eleanor Bergquist
- Vocals [Parisinza] – Montserrat Caballé
- Vocals [Ugo] – Jerome Pruett
