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Ruggero Leoncavallo

1857 Nápoli / Neapel - 1919 Montecatini Terme

CHATTERTON

2.Fassung UA 1896 Roma / Rom

Libretto / Word-book: Ruggero Leoncavallo

»dramma lirico / Lyrisches Drama«

{Verismo}

Rolle / Character:

italienisch / italian

deutsch / german

Tommaso Chatterton	Thomas Chatterton
Jenny Clark	Johanna Clark
John Clark	Johannes Clark
Piccolo Henry	Der kleine Heinrich
Giorgio	Georg
Lord Klifford
Lord Stafford
Lord Lingstone
Skirner

Ruggero Leoncavallos Aufnahmen der Oper "Chatterton"

1900-1909

Aufnahmen / Recordings

Rollen / Charakters

Sänger / Singers

1908 [Studio]

Chatterton

Granados, Francisco

LP: HMV, GRAMM

Jenny

Frate, Ines de

MC:

John

Federici, Francesco (Frederici)

CD: MARS, LMdlL, LINE

Henry

Santoro, Anita (Annita)

Dirigent: Ruggero Leoncavallo

Giorgio

Quinzi-Tapergi, Giuseppe

Orchester: Mailand La Scala Orch

Klifford

Cigada, Francesco

gekürzt / abridged

Stafford

N.N.

- Francesco Signorini singt einige Stücke der Rolle des Chatterton (CD 1: Tracks 3, 9, 12, 13, 22; CD 2: Tracks 1, 2, 3)
- bei MARS, LMdlL ist die Aufnahme gekoppelt mit der Oper "I pagliacci" von 1907

Lingstone

N.N.

Skirner

Pini-Corsi, Gaetano

- So far as can be determined, no single archive or collection contains a complete set of the 28 sides that were recorded. Richard Bebb and the late Sir Paul Getty, who amazingly owned all of the sides between them, were very generous to allow all of them to be transferred digitally for the purposes of this CD reissue. Lawrence Holdridge also supplied excellent copies of several of the Francesco Signorini sides.
- Chatterton, as published, is in three acts. In this recording, each act was somewhat abridged, with Act 3 being the most heavily cut. Fortunately, these excisions do not alter the story line. The aria for Lord Klifford sung by Cigada (CD 1, Track 6) has a second verse that does not appear in the published score and despite the patient efforts of several Italian-speaking listeners, it was not possible to decipher the words completely. Finally, a careful examination of the harmonies of the recorded music leading to 'Tu sola a me rimani' and the final track of Act 3 reveal changes from the published score that cause the music that follows to be a semitone lower than the published score. Whether the changes were to accommodate Signorini or were yet another re-working of the score by Leoncavallo, we cannot tell.
All that was recorded is set out on 26 tracks, although 28 sides were recorded. The first seven pages of the score were recorded twice and this section was released as two ten-inch sides and alternatively as one twelve-inch side. Comparing these two versions, we found that the orchestra was too remotely recorded on the first ten-inch side. In addition, there are some vocal problems toward the end of the twelve-inch version. Therefore, for this re-issue, we have chosen to include the first half of the twelve-inch version followed by the second ten-inch side. (CD 1, Track 1.)

Orchester / Orchestra

Schallplattenmarke / Label

Abkürzungen / Abbreviations

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