Jarmila Novotná / Opera recital - Historical recordings from 1930-1956
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) - Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816)
1. *Una voce poco fa - Rosina, Act 2 4:06
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Die Zauberflote (1791)
2. Ach, ich fühl's - Pamina, Act 2 3:30
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - le Nozze di Figaro (1786)
3. Non so piu cosa son - Cherubino, Act 1 2:48
4. Voi, che sapete - Cherubino, Act 2 3:23
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni (1787)
5. Ah, che mi dice mai - Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Leporello, Act 1 2:53
6. Fuggi il traditor - Donna Elvira, Act 1 1:39
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) - Les Contes D'Hoffmann (1881)
7. *Phöbus stolz im Sonnenwagen (Les oiseaux dans la charmille) - Olympia, Act 2 2:41
8. Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour - Giulietta, Act 3 3:52
9. Elle a fui, la tourterelle - Antonia, Act 4 3:59
10. *Voyez l'étrange fantasie; C'est un chanson d'amour - Antonia, Hoffmann, Act 4 3:49
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - La Traviata (1853)
11. * Tra voi - Violetta, Act 1 1:09
12. E strano!; Ah, fors c lui - Violetta, Alfredo, Act 1 8:45
13. *Addio del passato - Violetta, Act 3 2:34
14. *Alfredo! Ah, tu il vedesti! - Parigi, o cara - Violetta, Alfredo, Act 3 4:58
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) - La Boheme (1896)
15. *Si, mi chiamano Mimi - Mimi, Act 1 4:30
16. *Mimi! Speravo di trovarvi qui - Marcello, Mimi, Act 3 4:42
Giacomo Puccini - Tosca (1900)
17. *Vissi d'arte - Tosca, Act 2 3:10
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) - The Bartered Bride (1866)
18. Ach, jaký žal; Ten lásky sen - Mařenka, Act 3 5:26
Bedřich Smetana - The Kiss (1876)
19. A ty, mé robě; Hajej, můj andílku - Vendulka, Act 1 4:41
Antonín Dvořák - (1841-1904) - Rusalka (1901)
20. Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém - Rusalka, Act 1 5:13
Jarmila Novotná soprano
Ezio Pinza, Martial Singher - baritone, Alexander Kipnis - bass, Raoul Jobin - tenor, Jan Peerce, James Melton - tenor, Gibner King - piano
Wiener Philharmoniker / Arturo Toscanini, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Bruno Walter, Sir Thomas Beecham, Paul Breisach, Victor Orchestra / Dr. Frieder Weissmann, and others
* First Time On CD
Jarmila Novotná in a nutshell? The answer is simple: a Czech star of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. From the very beginning, great artists accompanied her meteoric rise (Destinnová, Tenaglia, Malatesta and Piccoli as teachers, and the conductors Toscanini, Klemperer, Zemlinsky, Kleiber, Walter, Blech, Széll...). She appeared to great acclaim on all the most prestigious operas stages worldwide. A beautiful stage presence, natural dramatic performance, utmost certainty of vocal technique and genuine sensitivity predetermined her attaining global celebrity. Her life, however, was affected by the dark events in Europe and her homeland. She fled the Nazis at "five minutes to midnight", from Berlin, Vienna and Prague. Her ship reached the New World on 15 March 1939, the very day the Germans entered the Czech capital. With the cachet of a Met star, during World War II she participated in dozens of charity concerts and radio programmes for occupied Czechoslovakia. Yet the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in February 1948 prevented her from returning to her beloved homeland. The war and other historical events thus paradoxically "sentenced" her to pursuing a career at the Metropolitan Opera, whose audiences she dazzled for 16 years. The CD comprises unique remastered recordings of Jarmila Novotná's singular take on selected world-famous arias.
Jarmila Novotná - a Met star in unique recordings of world-famous arias.
(Supraphon 2014)
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