Re: Verdi Recommendations Sought

Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:07:21 -0400
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Well you're entitled to your opinion but "overparted" is i.m.h.o a good word
to describe Carrera's interpretation of the role. It is for a spinto tenor
and Carreras if had good sense would stick to lyric. He did not and we all
know what his career turned out to be.
Again my personal opinion is that in the final scene and principally in the
graveyard scene Domingo is far superior to Carrerras.
"GRNDPADAVE" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> >Recommendations Sought
> >From: email-address-deleted (David7Gable)
> >Date: 07/20/2003 12:57 PM Central Daylight Time
> >Message-id: <email-address-deleted>
> >
> >>The opera is
> >>unique in having a tenor hero who has not a single aria to his credit.
> >>
> >
> >Stiffelio also seemed incredible to contemporary Italian audiences.
> >Stiffelio
> >is (a) a married priest, and (b) he forgives his wife's adultery.
> >
> >-david gable
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I seriously doubt if any 19th Century Italian audience ever witnessed an
> uncensored presentation of "Stiffelio." The bowdlerized "Stiffelio" was
> presented in Italy as "Guglielmo Wellingrode."
>
> What we have now is a recreation of the opera from various sources. I
doubt
> that a complete autograph score of the original exists.
>
> By the way Stiffelio is no priest, he is a Protestant minister.
>
> In addition, someone used that cliché, "overparted," to demean Carreras'
> splendid portrayal. Stiffelio is a vulnerable human being who struggles
to
> master his quest of vengeance by his Christian vocation which commits him
to
> forgiveness. Carreras, imho, provides precisely the most effective
> presentation of the role. The final scene -- only about 8 minutes
long -- is
> masterly.
>
> ==G/P Dave
>