Tiroler Landestheater Chorus, Bernd Valentin, Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Rumpf - Catalani: La Wally (2015) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. La Wally, Act I: Tra la la, tra la la, bravo Gellner
02. La Wally, Act I: Un dì, verso il Murzoll
03. La Wally, Act I: Son cacciator che tornan
04. La Wally, Act I: Su per l'erto sentier
05. La Wally, Act I: Chi osò levar sul padre la mano?
06. La Wally, Act I: Hagenbach, l'aborro
07. La Wally, Act I: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana
08. La Wally, Act I: Ad ora così tarda
09. La Wally, Act II: Entro la folla che intorno s'aggira
10. La Wally, Act II: No! Coll'amor tu non dêi scherzar
11. La Wally, Act II: La bella creatura!
12. La Wally, Act II: Sei tu?! Son io
13. La Wally, Act II: Che brami, Wally?
14. La Wally, Act II: Già il canto fervido
15. La Wally, Act III: Prelude
16. La Wally, Act III: Fa cor, Wally!
17. La Wally, Act III: L'Hagenbach qui?
18. La Wally, Act III: Buio è il sentier
19. La Wally, Act IV: Prelude
20. La Wally, Act IV: Luogo sicuro questo non è più!
21. La Wally, Act IV: Eterne a me d'intorno
22. La Wally, Act IV: Wally! Wally!

“Once upon a time there was a young woman who was more courageous than all the men in her mountain village”, what sounds like a fictitious story really happened. The young woman was Anna Stainer-Knittel, born as a gunsmith’s daughter in the Lech Valley in Tyrol on 28 July 1841. She proved her courage and independence of mind, time and again in later life. For in her preparations for the novel, Wilhelmine von Hillern concerned herself not only with Anna Stainer-Knittel’s experiences, but also intensively with people’s lives in the mountains at that time. Her Geier-Wally also integrated motifs from Tyrolean legends. The material reached the opera stage via the publication of the novel as a serial in the Milan paper La Perseveranza. It was there that the Italian composer Alfredo Catalani became aware of it. He was able to obtain Luigi Illica as the librettist. La Wally was first staged in La Scala in Milan on 20 January 1892 and met with a great deal of approval. After the third performance, Catalani wrote to: ‘The house was wonderful and the prelude to Act II was repeated. At the end of the opera, I received general, long (and I must really say so) enthusiastic ovations. The impresario is very happy and says the opera will make its way through all the theatres’.

Bernd Valentin, baritone
Susanne Langbein, soprano
Kristina Cosumano, mezzo-soprano
Johannes Wimmer, bass
Marc Kugel, bass-baritone
Susanna von der Burg, soprano
Paulo Ferreira, tenor
Tiroler Landestheater Chorus
Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Rumpf, conductor

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