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Composer / Author
Pietro Mascagni
Label
Guild
Catalog Number
GHCD 2241
Media
CD
Release Date
2003
SPARS / Process
AAD
Channels
Mono
Notes:
  • Notes on the performance by Richard Caniell (in English)
  • Recording notes by Richard Caniell (in English)
  • Short notes "Mascagni and Cavalleria" (in English)
  • Synopsis (in English)
  • The passage from "Avete altro a dirmi" to "c'intenderemo bene a quel che pare" (from 68:05 to about 69:48), missing from the original discs, is filled out with an earlier 1930 performance with Antonio Melandri (some other recordings feature a passage by Gigli from 1940)
  • The CD is produced by Guild Gmbh, Switzerland, but made and printed in England
  • Restored by Richard Caniell, IPRMS, British Columbia, Canada
  • Source: Immortal Performances Recorded Music Society, a Non-Profit, Educational Organization, British Columbia and Irwin Elkins, Omega Opera Archives
  • Features two pictures of Mascagni, and four pictures of the set of the opera
  • No libretto

Performance & Cast

November 7, 1938, The Hague [L'Aja, Den Haag]  — Cavalleria rusticana
live
  • Santuzza: Lina Bruna Rasa
  • Turiddu: Antonio Melandri
  • Alfio: Afro Poli
  • Mamma Lucia: Rina Gallo Toscani
  • Lola: Maria Meloni
  • Orchestra: Orchestra dell'Opera Italiana d'Olanda
  • Chorus: Coro dell'Opera Italiana d'Olanda
  • Chorus Master:
  • Conductor: Pietro Mascagni

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