His last appearance was in Taxi di Notte (1950). From 1935 to around 1952, Gigli was seen and heard in approximately twenty films. Hall or any other venue where Gigli was accompanied by piano or orchestra.
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Part 1 comprises performances from the stage, concert Singing ever, in a role that he would never attempt on stage, Verdi’s Otello.
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Only produced the popular song of the same name, but also some of Gigli’s best Gigli appeared in some fifteen films, all of which produced at least one gem on the Added to those recordings are various film soundtracks. Tenor in quite a few recordings stretching back from 1932 to the end of thisĬareer that were not available commercially. Garden which includes two Gigli performances of La traviata and Aïda. With, for example, a magnificent recording of Don Giovanni from SalzburgĪlso starring Pinza and Rethberg and quite a bit of the 1939 season from Covent The EJS material also originated from Europe Lotte Lehmann, Kirsten Flagstad, Alexander Kipnis and Salvatore Baccaloni, andĪ whole host of Met opera stars. Other singers that appeared on his lists were Jussi Björling, These included Simonīoccanegra with Lawrence Tibbett, Elizabeth Rethberg, Ezio Pinza, and Smith (EJS) who, between 1956Īnd 1981, published thousands of live recordings eagerly awaited by opera fansĪnd lovers of historical singers. Release live operatic recordings was Edward J. However, like other singers, Gigli virtually doubled the number of recordings available through the release of Gigli was one of the very fewĪrtists in the earlier part of the 20th century to record from theĪcoustic method to stereo. Well as several tracks recorded in stereo. These include recordings originally made on tape as Many formerly unpublished recordings from the 1950s were later released on fourĬDs by Testament records.
#O cessate di piagarmi background series#
The Naxos series covers Gigli’s recording career from 1918 to 1951. Part 3: Documentary Gigli's commercial records have mostlyīeen issued through the years by EMI (now Warner), and latterly, Naxos. Gigli-Live Performance and film discography Compiledīy David Cutler (Updated June 2021) Click below for access. Photo: Public Domain Gigli with phonograph, between circa 1920 and circa 1925 Giordano: Andrea Chenier, Arkadia 78012 (Bain, 1999)īeniamino Gigli: Verdi Operatic Arias, Fono 1003 (Bain, 2003) © Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsĪll reviews reproduced with the permission of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.
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Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, Arkadia 78005 (Bain, 1998) Roger Beardsley, in the U.K., recently turned up a test pressing of a previously unknown take of the aria “O cessate di piagarmi,” from Scarlatti’s Il Pompeo. 2 of EMI’s three-volume, nine LP The Art of Beniamino Gigli. Gary Galo, the ARSC Journal’s former editor of Sound Recording Reviews, has identified one title not found on either of the Naxos or Testament CDs, a stereo take of Volonnino’s “Luntano, luntano” that appeared in Vol. In addition, a few previously unpublished recordings were released after the tenor’s death, as recently as 1981. In a retrospective of The Gigli Edition, Mark Obert-Thorn lists in his producer’s notes in Volume 15 six titles not released on CD by either Naxos or Testament-in the former case due to copyright restrictions at the time the Naxos series reached completion. Note: Combined, the Naxos and Testament releases fall short by just nine known titles or takes in being able to offer a complete collection of the commercial output of Beniamino Gigli. Beniamino Gigli: The Complete HMV Recordings, 1918-1932, Romophone 820111 (Bain, 1999)īeniamino Gigli: The Complete HMV Recordings, 1933-1935, Romophone 82017-2 (Bain, 2003)īeniamino Gigli: The Complete Recordings 1936-38, Romophone 82020-2 (Bain, 2004)