Oreste Luppi's noble elegance and solid, self-assured vocalism impress. He was the most patrician Fiesco, bar none. A belcanto bass, and a 19th century Fiesco, properly dolorous, with dignity...

Simon Boccanegra: A te l'estremo addio...Il lacerato spirito
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"Oreste Luppi (Bass) (Roma 1870 - Milano 1962). He trained at the Rome Conservatory. He made his debut in 1892 at the Theatre in Foligno. His main houses were La Scala, the Constanzi, Regio in Turin, Genoa, Florence and Naples. He was the first Prince Gremin in the 1900 La Scala premier of Eugene Onegin. Luppi created a number of roles, but his most important creation was in Mascagni's Le Maschere. Luppi also guested outside of Italy, including Covent Garden and the Teatro Colon. After finishing his career he taught singing in Milan. He later lived in Milan at the Casa di Riposo G.Verdi, where he died." [ Ссылка ]

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Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It was first performed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice on 12 March 1857. Given the difficulties with the original plot, a revised version, with text changes by Arrigo Boito, was first performed at La Scala, Milan on 24 March 1881.

Prolugue. Fiesco enters, stricken with grief over his daughter's death (Il lacerato spirito - "The tortured soul of a sad father"):

PROLOGO
SCENA V

Fiesco esce dal palazzo.

FIESCO:
[A te l'estremo addio, palagio altero,
Freddo sepolcro dell'angiolo mio!..
Nè a proteggerti io valsi!..]
Oh maledetto!.. oh vile seduttore!..
E tu, Vergin, soffristi
(volgendosi all'immagine)
Rapita a lei la verginal corona?..
Ma che dissi!.. deliro!.. ah mi perdona!

Il lacerato spirito
Del mesto genitore
Era serbato a strazio
D'infamia e di dolore.
Il serto a lei de' martiri
Pietoso il cielo diè...
Resa al fulgor degli angeli,
Prega, Maria, per me.

(S'odono lamenti dall'interno del palazzo)

DONNE:
È morta!... È morta!... a lei s'apron le sfere!...
Mai più!... mai più non la vedremo in terra!...

UOMINI:
Miserere!... miserere!...

(Varie persone escono dal palazzo, e traversando mestamente la piazza, s'allontanano)

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