GD 166 Raina KABAIVANSKA in Concert, OPERA ARIAS
Arias from: Adriana Lecouvreur, La Boheme La Wally, Tosca, Manon, La Forza del Destino Don Carlos, etc.
Radio Symphony Orchestra, V. KAZANDJIEV
Varna Philharmonic Orchestra, R. RAITCHEV
Issued: 1994
Style: Opera and Choir Music
Company: Gega New GD166
This CD contains some of the few made in Bulgaria recordings of the celebrated opera singer. It is a combination of performances made at different times and with different orchestras, the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony conducted by Vassil Kazandjiev (Sofia, 1991) and the Varna Philharmonic under Rouslan Raitchev (Varna Summer '93 Festival). Kabaivanska has made a selection of crown performances in her artistic career. It is a fact well-known to opera-music fans that after Maria Callas she is considered to be the greatest interpreter of the part of Tosca, as well as those of Adriana Lecouvreur, Mimi from "La Boheme", Elisabeth from "Don Carlos". Thus the CD acquires the value of a retrospective registration of Kabaivanska's vocal style in a later stage of her artistic career.
Contents:
• Adriana's aria from "Adriana Lecouvreur" (Cilea)
• Mimi's aria from act one of "La Boheme" (Puccini)
• Mimi's aria from act three of "La Boheme" (Puccini)
• Musetta's aria from "La Boheme" (Puccini)
• Wally's aria from "La Wally" (Catalani)
• Hanna's song from "Die Lustige Witwe" (Lehar)
• Manon's aria from act three of "Manon" (Massenet)
• Leonora's aria from "La forza del Destino" (Verdi)
• Lisa's aria from "the queen of spades" (Tchaikovsky)
• Elisabeth's aria from act four of "Don Carlos" (Verdi)
• Tosca's aria from act two of "Tosca" (Puccini)
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