LAURI VOLPI - Parallel Voices (Voci Parallele) [English translation]

GIACOMO LAURI VOLPI - Parallel Voices (Voci Parallele) [English translation]

New English translation by Daniele D. Godor

This version is the updated, revised and commented translation of the third, last and most comprehensive edition of Voci Parallele (1977). We have furthermore added a new preface, an index of proper names and 2 CDs containing 49 recordings by singers discussed in the book, including two unreleased recordings by Aureliano Pertile and Antonin Trantoul. 

This beautiful edition should be part of any singer's and aficionado's library. 

Paperback, 288 pages. 

"Mr Godor has attempted to replicate in English Lauri-Volpi’s erudite Italian style and provided footnotes additional to Lauri-Volpi’s own to explain his more obscure references and supply correctives to any misinformation.

The translation is indeed admirable; as someone who is an editor and has also undertaken some translating myself, I greatly admire his achievement.(...)

In general, however, the way the translator also adds notes correcting factual mistakes, such as Lauri-Volpi’s denigration of Eleanor Steber in favour of Licia Albanese and Steber’s supposed exclusion from the role of Madama Butterfly, on page 45, is both helpful to the reader and revealing of the author’s prejudices – such as his grudge against the conductor Victor de Sabata (page 53). Indeed, sometimes the notes are the most interesting part of a section, an example being the account of the sad end to Chilean tenor Ramón Vinay’s life (page 139)." RALPH MOORE

CD 1
GIUSEPPE BORGATTI • PUCCINI - TOSCA: “E lucevan le stelle”
LAURITZ MELCHIOR • VERDI - OTELLO: “Dio, mi potevi scagliar” (in tedesco)
ALESSANDRO BONCI • BELLINI - I PURITANI: “A te o cara”
JOHN MAC CORMACK • DONIZETTI - LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR:
ANTONIO PAOLI • VERDI - IL TROVATORE: “Di quella pira”
BERNARDO DE MURO • VERDI - OTELLO: “Ora e per sempre addio”
FRANCISCO VIÑAS • VERDI - UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: “Ma se m’è forza perderti”
MIGUEL FLETA • BIZET - LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES: “Mi par d’udire ancor”
LUCIEN MURATORE • GOUNOD - ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: “Ah lève-toi soleil”
AURELIANO PERTILE • VERDI - AIDA: “E patria e trono”
HIPOLITO LAZARO • BELLINI - I PURITANI: “A te o cara”
MARIO FILIPPESCHI • PUCCINI - MADAMA BUTTERFLY: “Addio fiorito asil”
FRANCESCO MERLI • ZANDONAI - GIULIANO: “La voce orrenda”
ANTONIN TRANTOUL • PUCCINI - LA BOHÈME: “Che gelida manina”
ISMAELE VOLTOLINI • VERDI - IL TROVATORE: “ Deserto sulla terra”
GALLIANO MASINI • GIORDANO - ANDREA CHÉNIER: “Sì, fui soldato”
MATTIA BATTISTINI • BELLINI - I PURITANI: “Bel sogno beato”
GIUSEPPE DE LUCA • DONIZETTI - LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX : “Ambo nati”
VICTOR MAUREL • VERDI - OTELLO: “Era la notte”
MARIANO STABILE • DONIZETTI - LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR: “Cruda funesta smania”
TITTA RUFFO • FRANCHETTI - CRISTOFORO COLOMBO: “Aman lassù le stelle”
GINO BECHI • THOMAS - HAMLET: “Spettro santo”
MARIO SAMMARCO • VERDI - IL TROVATORE: “Il balen del suo sorriso”
JOSÉ SEGURA TALLIEN • DONIZETTI - LA FAVORITA: “A tanto amor”
PASQUALE AMATO • VERDI - I DUE FOSCARI: “Questa dunque è l’iniqua mercede”
 
CD 2
BENVENUTO FRANCI • VERDI - AIDA: “Quest’assisa ch’io vesto”
CARLO GALEFFI • MASCAGNI - GUGLIELMO RATCLIFF: “È sempre il vecchio andazzo”
GIANGIACOMO GUELFI • PUCCINI - TOSCA: “Tre sbirri, una carrozza”
DOMENICO VIGLIONE BORGHESE • FRANCHETTI - GERMANIA: “Ferito prigionier”
PAOLO SILVERI • DONIZETTI - LA FAVORITA: “Vien Leonora”
MARIO BASIOLA • VERDI - IL TROVATORE: “Il balen del suo sorriso”
ALDO PROTTI • VERDI - UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: “Alla vita che t’arride”
GIUSEPPE DANISE • MASSENET - HÉRODIADE: “Vision fugitive”
CARLO TAGLIABUE • LEONCAVALLO: PAGLIACCI: “Un nido di memorie”
ROSINA STORCHIO • LEONCAVALLO: LA BOHÈME: “Mimì Pinson”
MAFALDA FAVERO • PUCCINI - MANON LESCAUT: “In quelle trine morbide”
EMMA CARELLI • PUCCINI - TOSCA: “Vissi d’arte”
GILDA DALLA RIZZA • VERDI - LA TRAVIATA: “È strano... ah fors’è lui”
ROSA PONSELLE • VERDI - ERNANI: “Ernani, Ernani involami”
MARIA CANIGLIA • CATALANI - LA WALLY: “Ebben ne andrò lontana”
ELISABETH RETHBERG • VERDI - UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: “Ma dall’arido stelo”
GIANNINA ARANGI -LOMBARDI • VERDI - IL TROVATORE: “Tacea la notte placida”
ROSETTA PAMPANINI • PUCCINI - LA BOHÈME: “Donde lieta uscì”
LINA BRUNA RASA • MASCAGNI: CAVALLERI RUSTICANA: “Voi lo sapete o mamma”
RINALDO GRASSI • PUCCINI - MANON LESCAUT: “Donna non vidi mai”
FRANCO CORELLI • PUCCINI - MANON LESCAUT: “Tra voi belle”
MANSUETO GAUDIO • BOITO - MEFISTOFELE: “Su, cammina, cammina”
TANCREDI PASERO • BELLINI - LA SONNAMBULA: “Vi ravviso o luoghi ameni”
GIACOMO LAURI VOLPI • ROSSINI - GUGLIELMO TELL: “O muto asil del pianto”