Andrea Chenier Highlights – Del Monaco, Tebaldi
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Del Monaco, Silveri, Ticozzi, Tebaldi, Barbieri, Modesti, Barbesi, Maugeri, Mariano Caruso, Nessi; de Sabata. Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, March 6, 1949.
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Chénier was the role with which Del Monaco changed singing by introducing a technique taught by Arturo Melocchi, based on singing with the larynx kept low, at the bottom of the neck. It gave Del Monaco a powerful, brassy, thick, muscular, penetrating sound.
In March 1949 Del Monaco sang Chénier at La Scala. His performances excited the public and marked a changing of the guard. Gigli sang his final Scala performances in 1947, as Chénier. His object above all and that of the tenors he influenced was to caress you. Del Monaco’s was to excite you.
Del Monaco sang La Scala’s March 6, 1949 broadcast of Chénier. On hearing it Corelli, already having tried many teachers, went to study with Melocchi. Their lowered-larynx approach has been copied by Vladimir Atlantov, Giuseppe Giacomini, Luis Lima, Nicola Martinucci and a host of others.
This is a recording of that broadcast. Because of technical problems, only portions of the opera were broadcast successfully. (Those are the portions of the broadcast heard here.) Nevertheless the performance and the broadcast made Del Monaco a star. Tebaldi was one already. —Stefan Zucker
| Andrea Chénier Carlo Gérard La Contessa di Coigny Maddalena di Coigny Madelon Roucher Pietro Fléville Il Sanculotto Mathieu Un “Incredibile” L’Abate |
Mario Del Monaco Paolo Silveri Ebe Ticozzi Renata Tebaldi Fedora Barbieri Giuseppe Modesti Attilio Barbesi Carmelo Maugeri Mariano Caruso Giuseppe Nessi |
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| Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano Victor de Sabata, Conductor Maestro del Coro: Vittore Veneziani March 6, 1949 |
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Act I
1. O soave bisbiglio!
2. Signor Chénier
3. Colpito qui m’avete
4. Un dì all’azzurro spazio
Act II
5. Or qui rovescia!
6. Non conoscete amor
7. Eravate possente
8. Ora soave, sublime ora
9. Maddalena di Coigny
Act III
10. Son la vecchia Madelon
11. Nemico della patria!
12. Or io rinnego il santo grido!
13. Carlo Gérard?…Là! Entrate!
14. La mamma morta