Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) - La Favorite (2000)
Cover Front Album
Composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Conductor Marcello Viotti
Orchestra / Ensemble I Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Length 149:39
Format CD
Genre Vocal; Opera
Chorus I Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Chorus Master Udo Mehrpohl
Index 176
Out of Print No
Musicians
Soloist Kasarova; Vargas; Michaels-Moore; Colombara; Piccolo; Furmansky
Credits
Producer Wolfram Graul
Label BMG/RCA
Catalog Line Red Seal
Track List
77:32
01 Act I: Prelude 05:22
02 Act I: Scene 1: "Pieux monastere!" 03:28
03 Act I: Scene 2: "Parle, mon fils; Un ange, femme inconnue" 03:41
04 Act I: Scene 2: "Toi, mon fils, ma seule esperance" 05:51
05 Act I: Scene 3: "Rayons dores, tiede zephyre" 03:35
06 Act I: Scene 3: "Silence! Silence!" 02:13
07 Act I: Scene 4: "Gentille messagere" 02:18
08 Act I: Scene 5: "Mon idole! Dieu t'envoie" 07:46
09 Act I: Scene 7: "Celui qui vient la chercher" 01:13
10 Act I: Scene 8: "Oui, ta voix m'inspire" 03:01
11 Act II: Scene 1: "Jardins de l'Alcazar" 03:37
12 Act II: Scene 2: "Leonor, viens, j'abandonne" 06:04
13 Act II: Scene 3: "Pour la fete...Ainsi donc on raconte" 06:46
14 Act II: Scene 3: "Que ta douleur s'arrete!" 00:33
15 Act II: Scene 4: Pas de six 07:17
16 Act II: Scene 4: Final de la danse 03:19
17 Act II: Scene 5: "Ah! Sire!" 11:28
72:07
01 Act III: Prelude 01:16
02 Act III: Scene 1: "Me voici donc près d'elle!" 02:50
03 Act III: Scene 3: "Fernand de votre amour" 04:54
04 Act III: Scene 4: "L'ai-je bien entendu?" 01:26
05 Act III: Scene 4: "O mon Fernand!" 06:08
06 Act III: Scene 5: "Inès, viens" 01:29
07 Act III: Scene 7: "Déjà dans la chapelle" 04:21
08 Act III: Scene 9: "Quel marché de babesse!" 06:22
09 Act III: Scene 12: "Sire, je vous dois tout" 01:13
10 Act III: Scene 12: "Ô ciel! ... de son âme" 07:18
11 Act IV: Prelude 02:13
12 Act IV: Scene 1: "Frères, creusons l'asile" 05:32
13 Act IV: Scene 2: "Dans un instant, mon frère" 03:20
14 Act IV: Scene 3: "Ange si pur" 03:08
15 Act IV: Scene 4: "Es-tu prêt? Viens." 20:37
Personal
Purchase Date 9/28/2002
Value $35.00
Store Columbia House
Condition 100%
Librettist Alphonse Royer; Gustave Vaez; Eugene Scribe
Nationality Italian
Premiere Opéra, Paris, December 2, 1840
"Form" Opéra in quartre actes
Language French
Period Romantic
Details
Studio Philharmonie am Gasteig, Munich
Catalog Number 74321-66229-2
Live Yes
Recording Date 4/11/1999
Spars DDD
Reissue No
Sound Stereo
Notes
Leonore de Guzman: Vesselina Kasarova
Fernand: Ramon Vargas
Alphonse XI: Anthony Michaels-Moore
Balthazar: Carlo Colombara
Don Gaspar: Francesco Piccoli
Ines: Abbie Furmansky
Un seigneur: Lorenz Fehenberger

Based on the critical edition by Rebecca Harris-Warrick

Notes, illustrations, biographies, text and translations

Essay: Philip Gossett, University of Chicago