Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) - Anna Bolena (2000)
Cover Front Album
Composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Conductor Julius Rudel
Orchestra / Ensemble I London Symphony Orchestra
Length 194:03
Format CD
Genre Vocal; Opera
Chorus I John Alldis Choir
Chorus Master John Alldis
Index 174
Out of Print No
Musicians
Soloist Sills; Verrett; Burrows; Plishka; Kern; Lloyd; Tear
Credits
Producer David C. Mottely
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Track List
64:42
01 Act I: Scene 1: Sinfonia 07:55
02 Act I: Scene 1: Introduzione 03:19
03 Act I: Scene 1: "Ella di me, sollecita" 02:21
04 Act I: Scene 1: "Si taciturna e mesta" 02:29
05 Act I: Scene 1: "Deh! Non voler costringere" 02:22
06 Act I: Scene 1: "Come, innocente giovane" 03:12
07 Act I: Scene 1: "Legger potessi in me!" 05:20
08 Act I: Scene 1: "O! qual parlar fu il suo!" 04:57
09 Act I: Scene 1: "Si, l'avrete" 01:53
10 Act I: Scene 1: "La mia fama e a' pie dell'ara" 02:51
11 Act I: Scene 1: "Ella pure amor m'offria" 04:22
12 Act I: Scene 1: "Ah! qual sia cercar non oso" 03:20
13 Act I: Scene 2: "Chi veggo?" 03:13
14 Act I: Scene 2: "Da quel di che" 03:15
15 Act I: Scene 2: "Ah! cosi nei di ridenti" 03:19
16 Act I: Scene 2: "Desta si tosto" 03:41
17 Act I: Scene 2: "Io sentii sulla mio mano" 02:54
18 Act I: Scene 2: "Or che reso ai patri i lidi" 01:30
19 Act I: Scene 2: "Questo di per noi spuntato" 02:29
58:02
01 Act I: Scene 3: "E'sgombro il loco" 03:33
02 Act I: Scene 3: "Ah! parea che per incanto" 04:15
03 Act I: Scene 3: "Basta..basta...tropp'oltre vai..." 02:28
04 Act I: Scene 3: "Anna! Riccardo!" 03:10
05 Act I: Scene 3: "S'ei t'aborre, io t'amo ancora" 04:25
06 Act I: Scene 3: "Ah!... per pieta del mio spavento" 03:07
07 Act I: Scene 3: "Alcun potria ascoltari" 01:44
08 Act I: Scene 3: "Tace ognuno" 02:16
09 Act I: Scene 3: "In quegli sgardi impresso" 03:55
10 Act I: Scene 3: "In separato carcere" 04:55
11 Act II: Scene 1: "O! Dove mai ne andarono" 04:33
12 Act II: Scene 1: "O mie fedeli" 02:46
13 Act II: Scene 1: "Dio, che mi vedi in core" 07:12
14 Act II: Scene 1: "Sul suo capo aggravi un Dio" 03:32
15 Act II: Scene 1: "Dal mio cor punita io sono" 02:54
16 Act II: Scene 1: "Va, infelice, e teco reca" 03:17
71:19
01 Act II: Scene 2: "Ebben? dinanzi ai guidici" 04:44
02 Act II: Scene 2: "Scostatevi... il Re giunge" 05:26
03 Act II: Scene 2: "Ambo morrete" 06:50
04 Act II: Scene 2: "Al Consiglio sien tratti" 03:50
05 Act II: Scene 2: "Sposa a Percy" 04:15
06 Act II: Scene 2: "Per questa fiamma indomita" 02:36
07 Act II: Scene 2: "Stolta! non sai..." 03:16
08 Act II: Scene 2: "Ah! pensate che rivolti" 04:55
09 Act II: Scene 3: "To pur dannato a morte" 01:48
10 Act II: Scene 3: "Vive tu, te ne scongiuro" 03:23
11 Act II: Scene 3: "Nel veder la tua costanza" 03:24
12 Act II: Scene 3: "Chi puo vederla" 05:27
13 Act II: Scene 3: "Piangete voi?" 04:41
14 Act II: Scene 3: "Al dolce guidami castel natio" 04:41
15 Act II: Scene 3: "Qual mesto suon?..." 04:24
16 Act II: Scene 3: "Cielo, a'miei lunghi spasimi" 04:24
17 Act II: Scene 3: "Coppia Iniqua" 03:15
Personal
Purchase Date 10/26/2001
Value $35.00
Store BMG
Condition 100%
Librettist Felice Romani
Nationality Italian
Premiere Teatro Carcano, Milan, December 26, 1830
"Form" Opera in two acts and six scenes
Language Italian
Period Romantic
Details
Studio Abbey Road, London
Catalog Number 465 957-2
Live No
Recording Date 8/1/1972
Spars ADD
Reissue Yes
Sound Stereo
Notes
Anna (Anne Boleyn): Bevery Sills
Giovanna (Jane Seymour): Shirley Verrett
Lord Richard Percy: Stuart Burrows
Enrico (Henry VIII): Paul Plishka
Smeton: Patricia Kern
Lord Rochefort: Robert Lloyd
Sir Hervey: Robert Tear

Notes, biographies, text and translation

Essay: "Donizetti's 'Anna Bolena'" by William Ashbrook

Originally released on the ABC Audio Treasury Series label