Album
Jarmila Novotná
Opera Recital
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Catalogue Number: SU 4158-2
Published: 21st February 2014
Genre: Opera
Format: 1 CD
Historical recordings from 1930-1956
Selected soprano arias from operas by W. A. Mozart (Die Zauberflöte, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni), Jacques Offenbach (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Giuseppe Verdi (La traviata), Giacomo Puccini (La boh?me, Tosca), Bedřich Smetana (The Bartered Bride, The Kiss) and Antonín Dvořák (Rusalka)
Jarmila Novotná - soprano
Ezio Pinza, Martial Singher - baritone, Alexander Kipnis - bass, Raoul Jobin - tenor, Jan Peerce, James Melton - tenor, Gibner King - piano
Wiener Philharmoniker / Arturo Toscanini, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Bruno Walter, Sir Thomas Beecham, Paul Breisach, Victor Orchestra / Dr. Frieder Weissmann, and others
Jarmila Novotná in a nutshell? The answer is simple: a Czech star of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. From the very beginning, great artists accompanied her meteoric rise (Destinnová, Tenaglia, Malatesta and Piccoli as teachers, and the conductors Toscanini, Klemperer, Zemlinsky, Kleiber, Walter, Blech, Széll...). She appeared to great acclaim on all the most prestigious operas stages worldwide. A beautiful stage presence, natural dramatic performance, utmost certainty of vocal technique and genuine sensitivity predetermined her attaining global celebrity. Her life, however, was affected by the dark events in Europe and her homeland. She fled the Nazis at "five minutes to midnight", from Berlin, Vienna and Prague. Her ship reached the New World on 15 March 1939, the very day the Germans entered the Czech capital. With the cachet of a Met star, during World War II she participated in dozens of charity concerts and radio programmes for occupied Czechoslovakia. Yet the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in February 1948 prevented her from returning to her beloved homeland. The war and other historical events thus paradoxically "sentenced" her to pursuing a career at the Metropolitan Opera, whose audiences she dazzled for 16 years. The CD comprises unique remastered recordings of Jarmila Novotná's singular take on selected world-famous arias.
Jarmila Novotná - a Met star in unique recordings of world-famous arias.
Selected soprano arias from operas by W. A. Mozart (Die Zauberflöte, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni), Jacques Offenbach (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Giuseppe Verdi (La traviata), Giacomo Puccini (La boh?me, Tosca), Bedřich Smetana (The Bartered Bride, The Kiss) and Antonín Dvořák (Rusalka)
Jarmila Novotná - soprano
Ezio Pinza, Martial Singher - baritone, Alexander Kipnis - bass, Raoul Jobin - tenor, Jan Peerce, James Melton - tenor, Gibner King - piano
Wiener Philharmoniker / Arturo Toscanini, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Bruno Walter, Sir Thomas Beecham, Paul Breisach, Victor Orchestra / Dr. Frieder Weissmann, and others
Jarmila Novotná in a nutshell? The answer is simple: a Czech star of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. From the very beginning, great artists accompanied her meteoric rise (Destinnová, Tenaglia, Malatesta and Piccoli as teachers, and the conductors Toscanini, Klemperer, Zemlinsky, Kleiber, Walter, Blech, Széll...). She appeared to great acclaim on all the most prestigious operas stages worldwide. A beautiful stage presence, natural dramatic performance, utmost certainty of vocal technique and genuine sensitivity predetermined her attaining global celebrity. Her life, however, was affected by the dark events in Europe and her homeland. She fled the Nazis at "five minutes to midnight", from Berlin, Vienna and Prague. Her ship reached the New World on 15 March 1939, the very day the Germans entered the Czech capital. With the cachet of a Met star, during World War II she participated in dozens of charity concerts and radio programmes for occupied Czechoslovakia. Yet the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in February 1948 prevented her from returning to her beloved homeland. The war and other historical events thus paradoxically "sentenced" her to pursuing a career at the Metropolitan Opera, whose audiences she dazzled for 16 years. The CD comprises unique remastered recordings of Jarmila Novotná's singular take on selected world-famous arias.
Jarmila Novotná - a Met star in unique recordings of world-famous arias.
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Gioacchino Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Opera in 2 Acts
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| 1. | Act 2 "Una voce poco fa" | 04:10 | |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute . Opera in 2 Acts (Die Zauberflöte), K. 620
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| 2. | Act 2 "Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden" | 03:34 | |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro. Opera in 4 Acts, K. 492
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| 3. | Act 1 "Non so piu cosa son" | 02:51 | |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro. Opera in 4 Acts, K. 492
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| 4. | Act 2 "Voi, che sapete" | 03:27 | |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni. Opera in 2 Acts, K. 527
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| 5. | Act 1 "Ah, chi mi dice mai" (Sc. V) | 02:56 | |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni. Opera in 2 Acts, K. 527
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| 6. | Act 1 " Fuggi il traditor" (Sc. X) | 01:43 | |
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Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann. Opera in 4 Acts
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| 7. | Act 2 "Phöbus stolz im Sonnenwagen (Les oiseaux dans la charmille)" | 02:45 | |
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Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann. Opera in 4 Acts
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| 8. | Act 3 "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" | 03:56 | |
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Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann. Opera in 4 Acts
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| 9. | Act 4 "Elle a fui, la tourterelle" | 04:03 | |
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Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann. Opera in 4 Acts
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| 10. | Act 4 "Voyez l'étrange fantasie; C'est un chanson d'amour" | 03:53 | |
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata. Opera
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| 11. | Act 1 "Tra-voi" | 01:13 | |
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata. Opera
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| 12. | Act 1 "E strano!; Ah, fors e lui" | 08:48 | |
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata. Opera
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| 13. | Act 3 "Addio del passato" | 02:37 | |
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata. Opera
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| 14. | Act 3 "Alfredo! Ach, tu il vedesti! - Parigi, o cara" | 05:02 | |
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Giacomo Puccini
La Boheme. Opera in 4 Acts
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| 15. | Act 1 "Si, mi chiamano Mimi" | 04:34 | |
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Giacomo Puccini
La Boheme. Opera in 4 Acts
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| 16. | Act 3 "Mimi! Speravo di trovarvi qui" | 04:46 | |
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Giacomo Puccini
Tosca. Opera in 3 Acts
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| 17. | Act 2 "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" | 03:14 | |
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Bedřich Smetana
The Bartered Bride. A Comic opera in Three Acts
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| 18. | Act 3 "Oh, what a grief!" | 05:30 | |
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Bedřich Smetana
The Kiss. Comic opera in 2 acts
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| 19. | Act 1 "And you, my baby - Sleep now, my angel" | 04:46 | |
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Antonín Dvořák
Rusalka. Opera in 3 Acts, Op. 114
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| 20. | Act 1 "O, moon high up in the deep, deep sky" | 05:13 | |