Life of Verdi 5: Il Trovatore (Miriam Pirazzini)

[minnie888444]

Thanks for posting. Pirazzini is excellent. I dislike the film conception, though. He looks at the chicken!!! in the yard after closing the window and then they give Azucena (???) Not one complete piece of music!!! The narrator talks over the singing. Some facts are downright wrong. What "too late" for Manrico's tenderness to Azucena? "Just a mother", "ill" -- empty words, they didn't even read the libretto. The Miserere chorus is incomplete and placed at the end = again wrong.

[minnie888444]

@minnie888444 Not to mention the fact that they show people trying to get to the theater, a very mundane image by the way, while the chorus sings the prayer for the soul already embarked on the path of no return, beseeching the merciful Divinity not to let that soul become prey to the inferno...

[grig035]

Well, they stick with Lauri-Volpi's Manrico and Pirazzini's Azucena for most of this, but for the final sequence, with the "Miserere" played for the audience trudging through the flooded entrance way etc., we can hear the Leonora of Antonietta Stella and the Manrico of Carlo Bergonzi, with the chorus and orchestra of La Scala under Maestro Tullio Serafin.

[mozzrt]

This Pirazzini is truly awsome, what a voice what a dramatic ability!

[patrick96321]

From the 1984 ten and a half hour miniseries, "The Life of Verdi",

starring Ronald Pickup.

Featuring the voices of Miriam Pirazzini (mezzo-soprano)

and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (tenor).

Available on Kultur DVD.