THE CENTENARY OF THE MARIBOR OPERA

Classical and Modern Music

Format: CD

Code: 116926

EAN: 3838898116926

At the very end of the jubilee celebration of the Maribor Opera THE ARS Programmme of PMS RTV Slovenija, ZKP Publishing and Record Label and SNG Maribor combined archival recordings with the most recent ones to create an music panorama of the history of the institution. On this double edition the chorus, orchestra and opera soloists are presented for your music enjoyment as suitably as possible, especially with their “trademark” repertoire that has proved to be their greatest success.

“The first recordings date back to the late 1950s, and after that period the recording activity gradually began to flourish in the following decades, culminating with two archival recordings of Gounod’s Faust and Puccini’s La bohème in the 1980s. In the case of Faust, it is worth mentioning a great technical feat even for today’s standards, as the church scene was recorded in two separate place simultaneously, which was made possible through a cable connection established between the hall where the orchestra was recording and the organ in the cathedral across the street. Shortly afterwards, the era of recording silence followed, as recording was no longer possible due to formal complications between institutions, which has done an enormous and almost irreparable historical damage. It is therefore not surprising that we do not have any recordings of our few best singers with the house orchestra, who greatly contributed to the international acclaim of the Maribor Opera House, so we had to borrow a few recordings for this jubilee edition elsewhere. Despite the fact that formal complications regarding the recording of music is still not completely resolved, the Maribor Opera has consistently devoted itself, especially over the last years, to recording the most noteworthy achievements in music performance, thus accumulating a considerable number of recordings, which are presented on the second CD of this edition, featuring opera soloists, chorus and orchestra,” has written conductor and artistic director of the Maribor Opera Simon Krečič.

TRACKLIST

CD 1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791): Le Nozze di Figaro

E Susanna non vien! – Dove sono i bei momenti

Ondina Otta Klasinc, sopran

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848): La fille du régiment

Ah! Mes amis, quel jour de fête

Janez Lotrič, tenor

Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893): Faust

Faites-lui mes aveux

Dragica Kovačič, mezzosopran

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Le Nozze di Figaro

Giunse alfin il momento – Deh, vieni, non tardar

Mileva Pertot, sopran

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): La bohème

Che gelida manina

Jurij Reja, tenor

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): La bohème

Si, mi chiamano Mimì

Nada Ruždjak, sopran

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): La bohème

O soave fanciulla

Nada Ruždjak, sopran ● Jurij Reja, tenor

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848): Don Pasquale

Cheti cheti immantinente

Fabio Furlan, bas ● Emil Baronik, bariton

Heribert Svetel (1895 - 1962): Višnjani

Uverture

Viktor Parma (1858 - 1924): Zlatorog

The prologue and the first scene of the opera

Majda Švagan, alt ● Ervin Ogner, tenor ● Miro Gregorin, bas

CD 2

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Nabucco

Uverture

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848): L'elisir d'amore

Voglio dire … lo stupendo elisir che desta amore

Martin Sušnik, tenor ● Jaki Jurgec, bariton

Vincenzo Bellini (1807 - 1835): La Sonnambula

De lieti auguri

Valentina Čuden, mezzosopran

Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868): Il barbiere di Siviglia

La callunia è un verticello

Valentin Pivovarov, bas

Lé Delibes (1836 – 1891): Lakmé

Viens, Mallika, les lianes en fleurs

Petya Ivanova, sopran ● Irena Petkova, mezzosopran

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Macbeth

Nel dì della vittoria io le incontrai

Rebeka Lokar, sopran

Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 – 1919): Pagliacci / Glumači

Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio – Vesti la giubba

Miro Solman, tenor

Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier

Come sa amare! – La mamma morta

Sabina Cvilak, sopran

Aleksander Borodin (1833 - 1887): Prince Igor

2. act - The Polovtsian Dances

Valentin Pivovarov, bas

Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875): Carmen

C'est des contrebandiers le refuge ordinaire – Je dis, que rien ne m'épouvante

Andreja Zakonjšek Krt, sopran

Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875): Carmen

Les voici! voici la quadrille!