Puccini: Il Tabarro

Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Orchestra E Coro Della RAI (Orchestra), Antenore Reali (Performer), Dario Caselli (Performer), Ebe Ticozzi (Performer), Clara Petrella (Performer), Aldo Bertocci (Performer), Giuseppe Nessi (Performer), Glauco Scarlini (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Antenore Reali, Dario Caselli, Ebe Ticozzi, Clara Petrella, Aldo Bertocci, et al.
• Orchestra: Orchestra E Coro Della RAI
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Audio CD (September 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Preiser Records
• ASIN: B00004LN25
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #667,050 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Singers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, September 21, 2008

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Paul A. Dunphy (Bogota, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Puccini: Il Tabarro (Audio CD)

While there are recordings of this one-act opera which may be more musically interesting, there is none more dramatic than this 1949 Cetra recording.
The word that comes to mind while listening to Clara Petrella's classic Giorgetta is "desperation". This is a woman in a dead-end marriage looking for an escape. Her interpretation may be a little too earthy for some but we are talking about people in the lower ranks of Paris society.
Veteran baritone Antenore Reali sounds like the older, bitter man that Michele is. Glauco Scarlini doesn't quite catch the fire of his two co-stars but he is able to hold his own. Special mention must go to Ebe Ticozzi's Frugola. Her maniacal laughter at the end of her aria about her cat is chilling in it's revelation of a mind coming unhinged. Tinca is sung by Giuseppe Nessi who was in the original performance of "Turandot". Conductor Giuseppe Baroni keeps the drama moving.
The voices may be a little more forward than in current recordings but in "Il Tabarro" it is the drama which counts!