Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano 1961 Gavazzeni; Corelli, Bastianini, Stella IT/EN libretto on screen

Audio recorded LIVE with on screen Italian and English libretto

Digitized from vinyl source: Melodram 30 (1984) edition and some parts from the 'I gioielli della lirica' series' (ed. Longanesi Periodici) GML-63 Highlights album.

The pictures used are from the performance itself (+rehearsals) and promotional materials. Photographer: Erio Piccagliani

Sources for notes: Booklets from various editions (MRF-109 vinyl, Raritas 2 vinyl, Robin Hood RHR-520 B vinyl, foyer FO-1022 vinyl, MYTO CD) + Wikipedia

Music by Giuseppe Verdi, 1849
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
English translation by Richard P. Arsenty (from the MRF-109 vinyl edition's booklet)

Performance:

December 7, 1961
Teatro alla Scala, Milano

Cast:

Arrigo ........................................... Franco Corelli
Rolando ................................... Ettore Bastianini
Lida .......................................... Antonietta Stella
Federico Barbarossa .............. Marco Stefanoni
First Consul of Milan ................ Silvio Maionica
Second Consul of Milan ........... Agostino Ferrin
Mayor of Como (Podestà) ....... Antonio Zerbini
Marcovaldo ............................ Virgilio Carbonari
Imelda ..................................... Aurora Cattellani
A herald .................................. Rinaldo Pelizzoni

Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Chorus master: Norberto Mola

Stage director: Margherita Wallmann
Set designer: Nicola Benois
00:00 - Overture
08:07 - Act 1, Scene 1 Introduction
10:24 - Viva Italia! Sacro un patto (Chorus)
11:39 - O magnanima e prima (Arrigo)
13:02 - La pia materna mano (Arrigo)
15:28 - Ciel! Non deliro? (Rolando, Arrigo)
16:43 - Ah! M'abbraccia (Rolando)
18:42 - Giulive trombe!...Salve Guerrieri! (Consuls, Chorus, Rolando, Arrigo)
22:22 - Act 1, Scene 2 Introduction
22:45 - Voi lo diceste, amiche (Lida)
24:28 - Quante volte come un dono (Lida)
27:22 - Che, signor! Tu qui? (Lida, Marcovaldo, Imelda)
28:25 - A frenarti, o cor, nel petto (Lida, Marcovaldo, Imelda, Chorus)
30:27 - Sposa... (Rolando, Lida, Arrigo)
32:16 - E ver? Sei d'altri? (Arrigo, Lida)
35:43 - T'amai, t'amai qual angelo (Arrigo, Lida)
39:14 - Act 2 Introduction
39:56 - Udiste? La grande, la forte Milano (Chorus, Podesta)
42:06 - Novella oste di barbari (Rolando, Arrigo, Chorus, Podesta, Frederick)
46:43 - A che smarriti e pallidi (Frederick, Rolando, Arrigo, Chorus, Podesta)
50:12 - Le mie possenti scorte (Frederick, Chorus, Rolando, Arrigo, Podesta)
52:56 - Act 3, Scene 1 Introduction
54:56 - Fra queste dense tenebre
56:12 - Campioni della Morte (Arrigo, Chorus)
58:26 - Giuriam d'Italia por fine ai danni (Chorus, Arrigo)
01:02:05 - Act 3, Scene 2 Introduction
01:02:17 - Lida, Lida? Ove corri? (Imelda, Lida)
01:06:19 - T'arresta (Rolando, Lida)
01:08:15 - Digli ch'e sangue mio (Rolando, Lida)
01:11:40 - Tu m'appellavi (Arrigo, Rolando)
01:13:44 - Se al nuovo di pugnando (Rolando, Arrigo)
01:16:12 - A me lo giura (Rolando, Arrigo, Marcovaldo)
01:18:25 - Ahi! Scellerate alme d'inferno (Rolando)
01:20:00 - Act 3, Scene 3 Introduction
01:20:37 - Regna la notte ancor (Arrigo)
01:21:45 - Vuoi morir! (Lida, Arrigo)
01:23:45 - Arrigo?...M'e noto che fra i guerrieri (Rolando, Arrigo, Lida)
01:25:41 - Ah! D'un consorte, o perfidi (Rolano, Lida, Arrigo)
01:27:07 - Vendetta d'un momento (Rolando, Arrigo, Lida)
01:29:08 - Le trombe i prodi appellano (Rolando, Arrigo, Lida)
01:32:20 - Act 4 Introduction
01:32:50 - Deus meus, pone illos (Chorus, Lida, Imelda)
01:36:12 - Vittoria! Vittoria! (Chorus, Lida, Imelda, Consul)
01:39:08 - Qui... qui presso al trofeo (Arrigo, Lida)
01:41:12 - Per la salvata Italia (Arrigo, Lida, Rolando, Chorus)
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