Ermonela Jaho (Anna) ; Arsen Soghomonyan (Roberto) ; Brian Mulligan (Guglielmo) ; Opera Rara Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Sir Mark Elder, conductor. Recorded 2018 November at the Henry Wood Hall, London. Title from disc label. Booklet with lyrics in Italian and English and program notes in English, French, German and Italian (69 pages : illustrations, portraits) included in booklet.
Summary:
"Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera-ballet in two acts (originally one) to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Vila, also used in the ballet Giselle. The opera, in its original one-act version, was first performed at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, on 31 May 1884. Le Villi is Puccini's first stage work. It was written for an 1883 competition of one-act operas by the publisher Sonzogno in his periodical Il teatro illustrato, but did not even earn an honourable mention."--Wikipedia.org.
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