This one looks pretty good. I may have posted it before in this thread, but a lot of the images are failing to show up.
Here is audio for the knifing scene.
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"All of Italian opera can be heard in [Bellini's] "Ah! non creda [mirarti]."
--Renata Scotto in "Scotto, More Than a DIva."
Here is a positive review.
https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-11876/
"All of Italian opera can be heard in [Bellini's] "Ah! non creda [mirarti]."
--Renata Scotto in "Scotto, More Than a DIva."
Sampling this on YouTube, I'm not impressed. Vishnevskaya is past her prime, nearly everything above the staff is a scream, and the voice seems basically too small in any case (listen to her marvelous Liu in a live 1964 Turandot under Gavazzeni, where she can be heard at her best). The other principals sound up to their jobs, although Bonisolli wasn't the most glamorous of tenors. Some of Rostropovich's tempi seem unnecessarily slow. Despite Vishnevskaya's characteristic dramatic flair, we're a long way from Callas and company and, I can't help feeling, from Italy. I don't need to hear the rest of this.
Last edited by Woodduck; Nov-10-2018 at 20:54.
Last edited by Fritz Kobus; Nov-10-2018 at 22:46.
"All of Italian opera can be heard in [Bellini's] "Ah! non creda [mirarti]."
--Renata Scotto in "Scotto, More Than a DIva."