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Opera "La Wally" In Theater São Carlos
Composer Alfredo Catalani - First performed at La Scala, Milan on 20 January 1892. Is well known especially owing to the beautiful aria: "EBEN, NE ANDRÓ LONTANA" (I'll go far away). A story from the Tyrolean Alps, based on an episode in the life of tyrolean painter Anna Stainer-Knittel "Die Geir-Wally '' epithet, from once stealing a vulture’s hatchling from her nest.
Catalani had composed the most famous aria, independently as "Chanson Groënlandese" in 1878 and, later, incorporated it in his Opera. The heroine throws herself into an avalanche, and because of the difficulty of staging is rarely performed, owing to this scene. There is a movie "La Wally", 1932 (Dir. by Guido Brignone).
The protagonist of the opera "La Wally", soprano ZARINA ABAEVA, was endowed with a beautiful and rare dramatic soprano voice, with a splendid timber and wonderful articulation, with 33 years of promise and great successes.
The composer Alfredo Catalani, with dense music and an orchestral score full of density, both in the accompaniments and in the beautiful preludes, is part of the VERISMO movement (“I love you, you betrayed me, I kill you”). Although, weak in melodies, the reason that made him less known and represented, because even the famous aria "EBBEN? NE ANDRÒ LONTANA", was taken from a peasant song, which he had previously composed.
The version presented in São Carlos, was in Concert, given the pandemic in which we live, in addition to being a work difficult to stage, due mainly to the avalanche scene.
Tenor, Azer Zada, in the role of Giuseppe Hagenbach, lyrical spinto, fulfilled it thought with a certain effort and guttural voice. Sromminger, the Brazilian Luiz Ottavio Faria, with a deep, very deep voice; the promised groom Vincenzo Gelner, sung by the baritone Luis Cansino, with a deep voice, with intense volume and something rude. The remaining secondary roles, very well interpreted by, Joana Seara, Patrícia Quintas and Nuno Dias. The version of Concerto allow us to appreciate more deeply the great music of Catalani (deceased at the age of 39), without the scenographic distractions, We left the Theater in a state of grace.
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Thanks to: TNSC, André Quendera, Raquel Maló Almeida; CCB, Sofia Cardim