CATALANI ~ DENISE BIELLMANN - 1998
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 -- 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 cult movie Diva. Catalani's other operas were less successful, partly hampered by inferior libretti.
Catalani was born in Lucca and trained at the Conservatory of Milan under Antonio Bazzini.
Despite the growing influence of the verismo style of opera during the 1880s Catalani chose to compose in a more traditional manner. As a result his operas have largely lost their place in the modern repertoire, even compared to those of Massenet and Puccini, whose style his works most closely resemble.
The influence of Amilcare Ponchielli can also be recognized in Catalani's work. Like Ponchielli, Catalani's reputation now rests almost entirely on one work. However, while La Wally enjoys occasional revivals, Ponchielli's La Gioconda has always been the more popular opera of the two (287 performances to date at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as opposed to only four for La Wally).
In 1893, upon his premature death from tuberculosis in Milan, Catalani was interred in the Cimitero Monumentale, where Ponchielli and conductor Arturo Toscanini also lie. Toscanini was a strong advocate of Catalani's music and named his daughter Wally in recognition of the composer's most successful opera. Toscanini recorded the prelude to Act IV of La Wally and the "Dance of the Water Nymphs" from Loreley in Carnegie Hall in August 1952 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor.
Operas
La falce ("The Sickle"), Milan, 19 July 1875
Elda, Turin, 31 January 1880 (radically revised as Loreley)
Dejanice, Milan, 17 March 1883
Edmea, Milan, 27 February 1886
Loreley, Turin, 16 February 1890
La Wally, Milan, 20 January 1892
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WOW, HE DIED FROM EXACTLY THE SAME THING AS MY HERO, CHOPIN, (TUBERCULOSIS) AND AT THE SAME AGE, 39 - FREAKY COINCIDENCE.......
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Her balance and flow of energy management to next movement unrivaled.
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I wish I had been able to see this performance back in 1998. What an inspiration!!
Never saw her fall or make a big mistake...she is amazing! USA loves you, Denise!
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I knew you were mistaken only because of the announcers. If I'm not mistaken, in many of your other videos, the music choices are yours... such excellent choices and I enjoy them so much!
YES MY CHOICES, FROM THE VERY LIMITED YOU TUBE LIBRARY OF REPLACEMENT MUSIC, BUT SOME TIMES IT WORKS OUT REALLY WELL, SO WELL THAT IN SLO-MO IT LOOKS AS IF THEY ARE ACTUALLY SKATING OR DANCING TO THE MUSIC I CHOSE, IT IS PRETTY WEIRD AND AMAZING WHEN IT FITS RIGHT IN THE SOCKET JUST RIGHT, CHECK OUT MY VIDEOS OF EKATERINA GORDEEVA, OR GRACIE GOLD TO GET THE FULL EFFECT OF WHAT I WAS GOING FOR, CAUSE I REALLY GOT LUCKY ON THOSE VIDEOS, TO BACH AND SCHUBERT..........BUT OF COURSE IT IS HARD TO GO WRONG WITH COMPOSERS THAT STRONG, AND THE IDEA BEING TO FIND THE DISCIPLINE TO DO THE SAME THING WITH MY OWN COMPOSITIONS SOME DAY - AND THOUGH I'M GETTING CLOSE TO 5 MILLION VIEWERS WITH MY 3 MAIN CHANNELS, I THINK YOU ARE ONLY LIKE THE SECOND OR THIRD PERSON TO TAKE THE TIME TO TELL ME THAT YOU APPRECIATE MY VIDEOS, SO THANKS !!!
Denise Beillmann G O A T
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This is the beautiful aria Ebben? Ne andro lontana? from La Wally composed around 1890 by Alfredo Catalani and was sung by Wilhemina Wiggens Fernandez in the movie Diva. The soundtrack for the movie was done by Vladimir Cosma and features wonderful piano compositions such as Sentimental Walk.
THANKS FOR THE CLARIFICATION, I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN OLD ARIA THAT I'VE HEARD BEFORE, AND WAS FROM WAY BEFORE ANY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS, LIKE COSMA. I WILL CHANGE THE TITLE TO GIVE CREDIT TO THE ACTUAL COMPOSER, SINCE THE ANNOUNCERS WERE WRONG - BUT IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT THIS SINCE YOU WROTE WHAT YOU SAID WITH A QUESTION MARK, SO IS IT CATALANI OR NOT, THAT SHE SKATES TO ?
I LOOKED IT UP, AND YOU ARE CORRECT, THE ANNOUNCERS ARE WRONG, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A VERY OLD PIECE, THAT'S WHY I WAS SURPRISED WHEN THEY SAID COSMA, CAUSE THAT COMPOSER IS STILL ALIVE, FOUND AN AWESOME VERSION ON HERE OF MARIA CALLAS SINGING IT, WHOM NORMALLY I DON'T LIKE, CAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE SHE ALWAYS SINGS WITH A BUBBLE TRAPPED IN HER THROAT, BUT THIS PERFORMANCE IS INCREDIBLE, AND THE BEST I'VE EVER HEARD OF HER.
THANKS AGAIN FOR STRAIGHTENING THE TITLE OUT FOR ME !!!
IF IT WAS PIANO MUSIC, I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN WRONG LIKE THAT, SINCE I PLAY PIANO, BUT STILL LEARNING ABOUT OPERA, I KNOW 95% OF PIANO MUSIC PROBABLY, BUT ONLY LIKE 10% OF OPERA, BUT I DO KNOW ALL OF WAGNER, HE IS THE ONLY OPERA COMPOSER I KNOW INSIDE OUT, BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS - BUT ANYWAY, THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP.......
The reason I caught it, is because DIVA just happens to be one of my favorite movies and it introduced me to Cosma and Catalani. Now, if you could just remedy the spelling of Catalani, we'll be all set. Thanks for your many video productions. I hope you choose to keep up the good work. (I was going to send all these comments to you privately, but didn't know how to do it) Regards..BG
DANG, IT SEEMS I CAN'T DO THIS POOR COMPOSER ANY JUSTICE, BUT HE IS NEW TO ME, I PUT SOME INFO ON HIM FROM WIKI ABOVE, AND IT APPEARS HE DIED AT THE SAME AGE, 39, AS A COMPOSER I DO KNOW A FEW THINGS ABOUT, CHOPIN, IN FACT IT WAS CHOPIN THAT CHANGED MY LIFE AND GOT ME INTO CLASSICAL MUSIC, HE PULLED ME IN KICKING AND SCREAMING, SINCE BOTH MY PARENTS TEACH PIANO, AND I REBELLED AGAINST IT ALL, BUT NOW LISZT AND CHOPIN ARE MY LIFE'S OBSESSIONS, ALONG WITH DANCE, AND SPORTS THAT USE MUSIC.
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THANKS FOR ALL THE NICE THINGS YOU SAID, THAT MAKES ALL MY EFFORTS WORTH ALL THE RISK, AND EXPENSE, AND CLIMBING OVER ALL THE ASSHOLES TO MAKE SUCH RARE VIDEOS, AND RARE MUSIC, AVAILABLE TO THE WHOLE WORLD, THAT ONLY I TOOK THE TIME TO SAVE, OR MAKE MYSELF....
AT LEAST I GOT BIELLMANN CORRECT, AND THAT IS A REALLY TRICKY ONE, "I" BEFORE "E" AND 2 LL's AND 2 NN's - HA !!!
BE WATCHING FOR LOTS MORE DENISE, SINCE SHE IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SKATERS, AND I HAVE COLLECTED A LOT OF HER PERFORMANCES OVER THE YEARS, MOST IN BETTER QUALITY THAN PROBABLY 99% OF HER OTHER VIDEOS ON HERE - IN FACT DICK BUTTON SAYS SHE PERFORMED A VERY "NON PUSHING" PERFORMANCE WITH THIS PROGRAM, SO I THOUGHT MY NEXT VIDEO OF HER WILL BE HER SKATING TO "PUSH IT" - HA !!!
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BUT ONE THING HE SAID THAT I DON'T AGREE WITH, IS WHEN HE SAID TARA LIPINSKI SHOULD NOT HOLD HER LEG UP WITH HER ARM IN HER SPIRAL, THAT SHE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HOLD THE LEG THERE WITHOUT THE ARM CATCH, AND AFTER HE SAID THAT, WE NEVER GOT TO SEE TARA DO THAT BEAUTIFUL PICTURESQUE POSITION AGAIN, I PERSONALLY THOUGHT IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL POSITION, OR CATCH, OR HOLD, IT MADE FOR A GREAT PICTURE OF TARA, IT WAS VERY VERY INDENTIFIABLE WITH TARA, IT WAS KINDA HER SIGNATURE POSE, BUT AFTER HE SAID THAT, SHE NEVER HIT THAT POSITION AGAIN........