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| Price: Sek. 300 | Mefistofele is the only opera that the Italian composer and librettist Arrigo Boito succeeded in completing. It was first performed at La Scala in Milan in 1868, but the version that is normally staged today is the one that Boito prepared for the Teatro Comunale in Bologna where it was performed with great success in 1875. Among the most important changes is the change in the vocal scoring of the character of Faust, initially written for a baritone but rescored for a tenor voice in the definitive version. The opera soon gained international success, and since the London and New York performances of 1880, Mefistofele has been, together with Gounod’s Faust, the most famous musical translation of Goethe’s drama. With its 3,500 seats the Teatro Massimo in Palermo is one of the greatest opera houses in the world. Its architecture is in neo-classical style and it was built at the end of the nineteenth century. |
| Name: Boito - Mefistofele | |
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| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Opening | Mefistofele - Ferruccio Furlanetto Faust - Giuseppe Filianoti Margherita / Elena - Dimitra Theodossiou Marta - Sonia Zaramella Pantalis - Monica Minarelli Wagner/ Nereo - Mimmo Ghegghi Orchestra, chorus, corps de ballet and children’s choir of the Teatro Massimo - Stefano Ranzani | ||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Prologue in Heaven | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Prelude (Orchestra) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Ave signor degli angeli (Chorus) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Instrumental Scherzo: Ave Signor (Mefistofele) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Easter Sunday: Perchè di là? (Chorus) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Al soave raggiar di primavera (Faust) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - The deal: Dai campi, dai prati (Faust) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Son lo spirito che nega (Mefistofele) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - The garden: Cavaliero illustre e saggio (Margherita) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - The Sabbath: Su cammina (Mefistofele) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Ballade of the world: Ecco il mondo (Mefistofele) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Margherita’s death: L’altra notte in fondo al mare (Margherita) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Lontano, lontano, lontano (Faust, Margherita) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Spunta l’aurora pallida (Margherita) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - The night of the classical Sabbath: La luna immobile inonda l’etere (Elena) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Forma ideal purissima (Faust) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Faust’s death: Cammina cammina/ O rimembranza (Mefistofele/ Faust) | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Ave Signor - (Chorus) |