Turandot alberto erede biography
- Alberto Erede (8 November 1909 – 12 April 2001) was an Italian conductor, particularly associated with operatic work.
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- Erede studied in his home town and in Milan, then in Basel with Felix Weingartner and in Dresden with Fritz Busch.
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Puccini's Turandot: a survey of recordings
(First published as the 'Gramophone Collection' in July 2008.)
In the Land of Might-Have-Been is a department of Recordings That Never Were. The ledger for the year 1926 has an entry for April 25 reading 'Milano: Teatro alla Scala: Puccini: Turandot: Prima'. A brief note explains that the premiere of this, Puccini’s last opera, ended with the conclusion of section figure 34 in the Third Act and that at this point the conductor, Maestro Arturo Toscanini, turned to the audience and spoke the following words: 'A questo punto termina l’opera per la morte del compositore'. Using the hypothetical mood favoured by the scribes of Might-Have-Been, the entry notes that 'Otherwise the opera were recorded complete'.If only! And yet it could so nearly have happened. Just one month later, on May 31, engineers of His Master’s Voice moved their equipment into London’s opera house at Covent Garden to record the famous bass Chaliapin live from the stage in a performance of Mefistofele. The experiment was successful, the quality fine, and arrangem
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Alberto Erede
Italian conductor
Alberto Erede | |
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| Born | 8 November 1909 Genoa, Italy |
| Died | 12 April 2001(2001-04-12) (aged 91) Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| Alma mater | Verdi Conservatory |
| Occupation | Conductor |
| Years active | 1935 - 1985 |
Alberto Erede (8 November 1909 – 12 April 2001) was an Italian conductor, particularly associated with operatic work.
Biography
Born in Genoa, Erede studied there before studying at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan, then with Felix Weingartner at Basel, and after this with Fritz Busch at Dresden.[1] He made his debut in Turin in 1935, conducting Der Ring des Nibelungen. He also conducted at the Salzburg Festival. Fritz Busch invited him to Glyndebourne in England in 1934, where he conducted several performances before the war. In 1937 at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, he led a private performance of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte where among the audience were Sigmund Freud, Stefan Zweig, Franz Werfel, Weingartner and Oskar Kokoschka.[1]
He toured the United States in 1937 and 1938 with t
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Finale 19 – Turandot Act 1
Italian opera as is currently practiced began with Rossini and ended with Puccini. All the Italian operas in the standard repertory were written between 1813 and 1924 – a little more than a century, a blink in the history of art. The last of these operas is Turandot. A magnificent achievement left incomplete at Puccini’s death in 1924 secondary to cancer and medical incompetence. That Puccini could write such a great work incorporating all the latest fads and trends in early 20th century music while sounding like himself is itself a feat. That he could also win the the hearts of his audience is astounding. His accomplishment shows that the failure of subsequent operas to resonate with opera goers is solely the fault of the composers that followed him. The audience is not to blame, nor is modern musical language. Composers of genius, if they still exist, are not writing opera.
The finale to Turandot’s first act starts with two short arias, the first by the slave girl Liu (hopelessly in love with Calaf, the tenor) followed by Ca
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