Mascagni "Cavalleria rusticana" (complete opera, conducted by the composer)

Cavalleria rusticana, opera in one act
Libretto by G. Targioni-Tozzetti & G. Menasci
Based on the story by Giovanni Verga
LP, Seraphim, IB 6008, 1967

With introductory remarks by Pietro Mascagni
Rec. April 1940 in Milan

Turiddu - Beniamino Gigli
Santuzza - Lina Bruna Rasa
Lucia - Giulietta Simionato
Alfio - Gino Bechi
Lola - Maria Marcucci
Members of the Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan / Pietro Mascagni

Introductory remarks by Pietro Mascagni:

"Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the audience: I am Pietro Mascagni, and I am pleased to announce that my "Cavalleria rusticana" has reached the age of fifty. It is associated in my memory with so many demonstrations of public sympathy that I could not refuse the invitation of the estimable firm of "La Voce del Padrone" and agreed to record the opera, complete and for the first time under my personal direction. My creation, which will achieve life through these most celebrated artists and through an orchestra and chorus that have no peer in all the world, will thus be submitted as my self-portrait, truer and more meaningful than any picture with my signature. And I, who have scribbled out many an autograph, have never done so with so much pleasure, for this is the most enduring thing that I can offer, as well as the most personal way of presenting myself -- in the double role of composer and conductor of my own music. I greet you with my heart, before taking up once more my baton."

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