Ilona Tokody, Placido Domingo, Giuseppe Patanè - Mascagni: Iris (1989)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:04:13 | 653 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: CBS Records | Catalog: M2k 45526
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:04:13 | 653 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: CBS Records | Catalog: M2k 45526
In the words of a survey of nineteenth-century Italian opera, published by the Corriere della sera to mark the turning of the century, Mascagni was "condemned to a masterpiece": after the triumph of Cavalleria rusticana nothing less would do. He lived for another 55 years, and although some of his 14 subsequent operas were immensely successful for a while (he claimed that Iris was better received than Cavalleria, and there was a near-riot of enthusiasm at the premiere of Il piccolo Marat) none was judged by the critics to be the awaited 'masterpiece', and nearly all had fallen from the repertory by the end of his life.