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23. Jan. 1993 · Scenes from Otello and Simon Boccanegra by Giovanni Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett released in 1993. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at.
Lawrence Tibbett assumed the sins and responsibilities of Simon Boccanegra, around whom the whole work revolves. He achieved one of the artistic successes of his career by presenting a finely wrought characterization in which admirable singing and acting, appropriate costume, and skillful makeup were harmoniously combined. Mr. Tibbett's ...
Lawrence Tibbett (pictured at the top of the page as Boccanegra) not only had a rich, extraordinarily beautiful baritone voice but was widely acknowledged as a talented and powerful actor. By 1932, Tibbett was also something of an American icon.
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Our first recording comes from La Scala in 1931/32, and it’s astonishingly good for its age. Carlo Sabajno gets disciplined singing from the chorus in Act 1 (‘Vittoria!’ and ‘Fuoco di gioia!’). Nicola Fusati and Apollo Granforte as Otello and Iago are imprecise with their rhythm, but Fusati has ringing top notes and Granforte colours his tone to ex...
The leading Otello in the years immediately after the Second World War was the Chilean tenor Ramón Vinay. He began his professional career as a baritone, and it’s the baritonal darkness of his voice that informs his recorded performances. There’s a live 1955 recording from Covent Garden under Kubelík (9/06; available on iTunes and elsewhere as a do...
Further live performances by Vinay from the 1950s have appeared over the past few years, but it was some time before Otello benefited from a recording in stereo. Mario Del Monaco, only three years younger, was soon treading on Vinay’s heels. His 1950 recording on Myto from Buenos Aires, billed as his first ever Otello, can safely be ignored. A stud...
The McCracken performances at Covent Garden were conducted by Georg Solti. In 1977, Solti made a fine – yet easily overlooked – recording in which Carlo Cossutta makes a strong entrance; and after the storm, the Vienna State Opera chorus manages a beautiful pianissimo. If Gabriel Bacquier’s Iago sounds strained here and there, Margaret Price sings ...
There’s a surprising number of recordings in the vernacular. Two come from Preiser. Singing in German, Torsten Ralf is trumpet-toned for Karl Böhm (Vienna, 1944), and Set Svanholm leads a fine Swedish-language performance for Sixten Ehrling (Stockholm, 1953/54). Two German recordings from Walhall also sound well. Under Herbert Kegel (Leipzig, 1954)...
The first thing to say about the Zeffirelli film (EMI) is that it is Zeffirelli’s Otello, not Verdi’s. In a word, the score has been butchered. And the second thing is that the recording has been transferred more than a semitone too low. (It’s conducted by Maazel, and the CD version mentioned above is complete and at the correct pitch.) It is chees...
Opéra Bastille / Chung Domingo and Leiferkus again on top form, with a tender, vulnerable Desdemona from Cheryl Studer and impeccably responsive conducting from Myun-Whung Chung. Almost as good are Domingo and Bruson in the live performance from Vienna under Zubin Mehta.
Rome Opera / Serafin What a pity that Tito Gobbi’s Iago was never captured on film. But this recording is treasurable all the same, with Gobbi partnered by the young Jon Vickers. Leonie Rysanek is in fine voice as Desdemona, and Tullio Serafin conducts superbly.
New York Met Opera / Busch The historic choice has to be one of the performances starring Ramón Vinay, the outstanding Otello after Martinelli and before Domingo. By a small margin, this one from the New York Met under Fritz Busch is the one to go for. Otherwise, the famous Toscanini set is still magnificent.
It belongs to:Otello - Giuseppe VerdiEttore Panizza (1938)Otello Giovanni MartinelliYago Lawrence TibbettCassio Nicholas MassueRoderigo Giordano Paltrin...
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13. Juli 2021 · English. Tracklist: 1. Act I: Brindisi: Inaffa L'Ugola! 2. Act I: Già Nella Notte Densa. Ed Io Vedea Fra Le Tue Tempie Oscure. 3. Act II: Credo: Credo In Un Dio Crudel. 4. Act II: Non Pensateci Più.
Iago is as great in villainy as Otello is in innocence and both Shakespeare and Verdi have done extraordinarily well by him. Last night Mr. Tibbett made him a surface villain with little subtlety and less imagination, though he sang him sonorously. One missed the craftiness, the seeming righteousness and the sheer love of evil which the ...
