Gaetano Donizetti – L’Elisir d’Amore – Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Сomposer: Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
Artist: Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Dominic Cossa, Spiro Malas, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
Title: Donizetti – L’Elisir d’Amore
Genre: Classical, Opera
Label: © Decca Music Group
Release Date: 2014
Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, January and June 1970
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 02:20:20
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 3835 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 2.0 / 96 kHz / 2680 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Size: 13.33 GB

Gaetano Donizetti’s most beloved comic opera, L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love) requires performers who not only can sing some of the most beautiful vocals that this composer ever penned but also who can deliver the perfect timing essential for comedy. This 1970 recording is another in the new Luciano Pavarotti series by Decca that has its 96kHz/24-bit remastered Blu-ray Pure Audio premiere. Once again, Pavarotti is teamed up with his frequent operatic partner, Dame Joan Sutherland, while her husband, conductor Richard Bonynge leads the English Chamber Orchestra and Ambrosian Opera Chorus.

Nemorino (literally “little nobody”) (Pavarotti) is a young rustic hopelessly in love with the rich Adina (Sutherland). A platoon arrives, led by dapper Sergeant Belcore (Dominic Cossa). He makes a play for Adina, offering her marriage that very day. The usually impetuous woman asks for time to reflect, while a jealous Nemorino stews. Dr. Dulcamara (Spiro Malas) enters and convinces Nemorino to buy his magic “elixir”  (actually cheap wine) that will make him irresistible to women. Meanwhile, Belcore has received orders to leave tomorrow so the wedding must be held immediately. Adina invites the entire village, excepting Nemorino who desperately asks Dulcamara for more elixir. To pay for it, he must enlist in Belcore’s company to get a signing bonus. The village girls get word that Nemorino’s rich uncle has died, leaving everything to the young man. They start making advances toward Nemorino who, unaware of his inheritance, thinks that the elixir is working its magic. Adina, seeing all this and hearing from Dulcamara how Nemorino sold his freedom, realizes that she really loves him. She buys back his enlistment papers as Nemorino learns of his good fortune.

Pavarotti and Sutherland were already masters of operatic comedy when this recording was produced and get brilliant support from the expert bel canto maestro, Richard Bonynge.

This Pure Audio disc has both LPCM 2.0 and Dolby TrueHD 2.0 options with relatively little audible difference between the, something probably due, at least in part, to the age of the master tapes and the fact that Dolby TrueHD and LPCM are, for all intents and purposes, theoretically one and the same. TrueHD is a lossless compression scheme that, upon conversion results in a one-to-one signal identical to the original PCM audio signal. Philip Siney was on the job again for Decca and his crew remastered the original tracks laid down by Kenneth Wilkinson and colleagues in Kingsway Hall, London. The two CDs are not as open and warm as the Pure Audio disc, but their remastering is noticeably better than the 1985 Red Book CDs that I already had in my collection.

Tracklist:
  Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
  L’Elisir d’Amore
1. Overture (Preludio) 02:58
  Act 1
2. Bel conforto 02:09
3. Quanto è bella 03:21
4. Benedette queste carte!…Della crudele Isotta 05:04
5. Marcia…Come Paride vezzoso 04:28
6. Or se m’ami, come io t’amo…Intanto, o mia ragazza 05:41
7. Una parola..chiedi all’aura 09:14
8. Che vuol dire codesta suonata? 01:53
9. Udite, udite, o rustici…Così chiaro 07:59
10. Ardir! Ha forse il cielo 00:48
11. Voglio dire, lo stupendo…Va mortale fortunato 07:37
12. Caro elisir! Sei mio! 02:47
13. Lallarallara la la la la…Non so se e finita o vera 01:01
14. Esulti pur la barbara 05:46
15. Tran, tran, tran, tran – In guerra ed in amor 03:41
16. Signor sargente 02:51
17. Adina credimi…Fra lieti concenti 08:14
  Act 2
18. Introduzione – Cantiamo, cantiam…Poichè cantarvi alletta 03:37
19. Barcaruola a due voci…Io son ricco e tu sei bella 02:26
20. Silenzo!…Le feste nuziale 04:34
21. La donna è un animale…Venti scudi 02:44
22. Ai perigli della guerra…qua la mano giovinotto 07:16
23. Saria possibile? 04:21
24. Dell’elisir mirabile…E bellissima 04:28
25. Io già m’immagino…Come sen va contento! 05:26
26. Quanto amore!…Una tenera occhiatina 07:54
27. Una furtiva lagrima…Eccola! 06:41
28. Prendi; per me sei libero 11:15
29. Alto! Fronte! 01:44
30. Ei corregge ogni difetto 02:23

Personnel:
Joan Sutherland, soprano (Adina)
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor (Nemorino)
Dominic Cossa, baritone (Belcore)
Spiro Malas, bass (Dulcamara)
Maria Casula, mezzo-soprano (Giannetta)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
English Chamber Orchestra
Richard Bonynge, conductor 

DISC INFO:

Disc Title:     Donizetti.L'Elisir d'Amore.Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge.2014.BDA1080p
Disc Size:      14 318 344 138 bytes
Protection:     AACS
BD-Java:        No
BDInfo:         0.5.8

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