Carlo Remotti

The soprano Daniela Dessì died suddenly on 20th August 2016, aged 59. She was hailed by critics and colleagues as one of the finest voices the world of opera has ever known. Dynamic pays tribute to the great soprano with this recording, filmed just one year before her untimely death. Her performance of Giordano’s Fedora was one of the pinnacles of her stunning artistic career. In the famous aria O grandi occhi lucenti from Act One, she delivers a technically perfect and emotionally passionate performance worthy of a great star. The story takes place at the end of the 19th century, in St. Petersburg (Act One), Paris (Act Two) and Switzerland (Act Three).

Between 1960 and 1981, the music label Deutsche Grammophon recorded the eight greatest operas composed by Verdi at La Scala in Milan, the home of Italian operas. World’s leading singers and conductors were involved in the recording. The result provides you with the best possible way to get familiar with Verdi’s operas...

Milano, teatro alla Scala, “Don Carlo” di Giuseppe Verdi L’INFANZIA, PARADISO PERDUTO Don Carlo debutta a Parigi nel 1867, cinque atti in francese, opera mai divenuta “popolare” per le oggettive difficoltà legate alla sua produzione, essendo monumentale nella durata, nella partitura e nell’allestimento, poiché richiede masse artistiche poderose e una compagnia di canto vasta e di eccezionale livello per i sei ruoli, principali e principeschi. Don Carlo è un insuperato punto di arrivo nell’evoluzione del linguaggio verdiano, un unicum che non trova corrispettivo in nessun altro lavoro, non in Aida (quasi coeva), la cui partitura è influenzata da stilemi wagneriani ed i cui protagonisti sono compattamente granitici come le statue dei faraoni, mentre presentano una varietà di sfumature psicologiche i protagonisti di Don Carlo, il cui libretto, tratto da Friedrich Schiller, è tra i migliori mai avuti a disposizione da Verdi… FRANCESCO RAPACCIONI

Verdi's Don Carlo is a problematic piece. Should it be in Italian or French? How much of the original French musical setting should be included? I've known this set for a while and have some reservations about the singing, that of the women in particular, but it's the inclusion of the whole of Verdi's original First Act which makes the set worth acquiring.