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Source: Live performance by the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, June 26, 1960.
Sound: Consistent with live recordings of its date, the sound here is somewhat compressed and boxy. There is some variation as singers move about the stage. Voices are favored over the orchestra and the chorus is quite distant. Despite all this, if heard with a little goodwill, the recording quality is adequately satisfactory. The Viennese audience is generally well-disciplined throughout.
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This is one of the best performances of Chenier I have ever heard. They simply don't make them like that any more. Corelli is a fiery, poetic and heroic Chenier. Tebaldi is Tebaldi and Matacic makes everything right.
I am giving it four stars only because of the "live" sound and lack of libretto. Otherwise it would be five.
Please note that this recording is sold at much higher prices on other labels. I am not sure that they are in any way better than Opera d'Oro. The ...
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Contracted to rival recording companies (Decca and EMI), Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli made very few commercial recordings together and so this performance of "Andrea Chenier" is one to cherish. The main attraction is Corelli who blazes forth in the climaxes of Giordano's music.
Unfortunately, the rest of the performances falls somewhat short of his. When Tebaldi joins voices with Corelli the result is fabulous but otherwise her Maddalena is tepid - even her "La mamma morta" comes up short ...
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