Glass Shatterers! Mariella Devia - Bellini: LA SONNAMBULA, Final scene complete, Palermo 1992 High F скачать в хорошем качестве

Glass Shatterers! Mariella Devia - Bellini: LA SONNAMBULA, Final scene complete, Palermo 1992 High F

~The "Glass Shatterers!" series focuses on sopranos who sustain High F, or sing higher. THE SONGBIRD: Here is the legendary Mariella Devia, one of the great coloratura sopranos of our -- or any -- era. She was born in 1948, made her debut as Despina at the Spoleto Festival in 1972, and was still singing concerts in good form through 2020 (acknowledging the pandemic had halted or altered many venue bookings). Devia is a bel canto specialist, but also sings baroque works and the lyric-coloratura roles of Mozart and several French composers. With this post I admit to breaking one of my channel rules: namely, to only post items that are not already on YouTube. However, I just could not do a segment on Sonnambula's final scene without including the incomparable Devia (and her final High F). Though I believe this is the only instance of the complete final scene from Palermo. THE MUSIC: Bellini's "La Sonnambula" is a gem in the sub-genre of sentimental Italian opera semiseria. The opera premiered in Milan in 1831 with Giuditta Pasta as Amina, the sleepwalking character referred to in the title. The role is long and contains bel canto music demanding both aching lyricism and florid fireworks. The opera culminates with an exquisite final scene that has the shape of a bel canto mad scene, but here Amina has not lost her mind -- she is merely in a melancholy trance due to her sleepwalking. A long mournful scene leads to the plaintive aria "Ah, non credea mirarti" -- arguably Bellini's most beguiling melody. When Amina wakes up and realizes all is well, she launches into a joyfully rhythmic cabaletta, "Ah, non giunge." Some sopranos add a High F6 over the final measures of the opera.