At The Opera, Bellini's Il Pirata (The Pirate) February 1, 2020
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ll pirata (The Pirate) is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with an Italian libretto by Felice Romani which was based on a three-act mélodrame from 1826. This play was itself based upon a French translation of the five-act verse tragedy Bertram, or The Castle of St. Aldobrand by Charles Maturin which appeared in London in 1816.
The original play has been compared with Bellini's opera and the influence of Il pirata on Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor has been noted.
Cast:
Imogene - Maria Callas
Gualtiero - Pier Miranda Ferraro
Orchestra and Chorus of the American Opera Society
Recorded Live 1959
Nicola Rescigno - conductor
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:15 p.m.
Maria Callas
Bellini
Il Pirata
11:00 p.m.
Aldo Protti
Leoncavallo
Si Puo
; Alberto Erede, conductor
11:08 p.m.
Puccini
Puccini
Turandot, opera: In questa reggia
London Symphony; Zubin Mehta, conductor Joan Sutherland / Luciano Pavarotti
11:15 p.m.
Bizet
Carmen Seguidilla
Regina Resnik
11:19 p.m.
Meyebeer
L' Africaine, grand opera in 5 acts: Mi batte il cor!... O paradiso
Carlo Bergonzi
11:22 p.m.
Elena Suliotis
La Gioconda, Suicido!
Elena Suliotis
11:26 p.m.
Mario del Monaco / Ettore Bastianini
Verdi
La forza del destino, Solenne in quest'ora
11:31 p.m.
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90: Mild und leise (Liebestod)
Vienna Philharmonic; Hans Knappertsbusch, conductor Birgit Nilsson
11:38 p.m.
Hans Hotter
Wagner
Die Walkⁿre Magic Fire Music
11:42 p.m.
Maria Callas
Norma, Act 2: "Deh! non volerli vittime" (Chorus, Norma, Pollione, Oroveso)
11:47 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
11:50 p.m.
Czecho-Slovack Radio Symphony Orchestra
Giacomo Puccini
Edgar, opera: Prelude to Act III
Czecho-Slovack Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
