Puccini: Il tabarro, SC 85 Bertrand De Billy

• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): Il tabarro, SC 85:
• 1 Il tabarro, SC 85: O Michele? Michele? 05:16
• 2 Il tabarro, SC 85: Èccola la passata! 03:01
• 3 Il tabarro, SC 85: Perché? 03:14
• 4 Il tabarro, SC 85: O eterni innamorati, buona sera 01:01
• 5 Il tabarro, SC 85: Se tu sapessi 02:16
• 6 Il tabarro, SC 85: To'! guarda la mia vecchia! 01:20
• 7 Il tabarro, SC 85: Hai ben ragione! 02:22
• 8 Il tabarro, SC 85: Segui il mio esempio 01:11
• 9 Il tabarro, SC 85: E ben altro il mio sogno! 05:08
• 10 Il tabarro, SC 85: Ho sognato una cassetta 01:18
• 11 Il tabarro, SC 85: O Luigi! Luigi! 07:40
• 12 Il tabarro, SC 85: Come e difficile esser felici! 08:54
• 13 Il tabarro, SC 85: Nulla! Silenzio! 02:54
• 14 Il tabarro, SC 85: T'ho colto! 04:18
• Total Runtime 49:53

Info for Puccini: Il tabarro, SC 85

With "Il tabarro" Puccini wrote the first part of his projected opera triptych, with which he ultimately intended to parody and reverse Wagner’s Ring tetralogy by stringing together three completely incoherent short stories. Once more, for Il tabarro the composer virtually emigrated to France, to which he had already made declarations of love with La Bohème and Manon Lescaut. This affinity is now mirrored more clearly than in these two operas in the music of The Cloak, which emanates French, well-nigh Impressionist perfume. Bertrand de Billy knows how to make the the score alive with a fantastic cast on his side. World famous tenor Johan Botha was on the top of his carreer.

"Bertrand de Billy conducts with a full-blooded approach and supports his excellent cast. Elza van den Heever thrills as Giorgetta, and one can see why and how she has gone on to greater stardom. The late Johan Botha is more fluently Italianate than usual, and the voice is glorious, likewise Wolfgang Koch, whose Michele is sung in a burnished baritone." (Opera Now)

Johan Botha, tenor (Luigi)
Wolfgang Koch, baritone (Michele)
Elza van den Heever, soprano (Giorgetta)
Heidi Brunner, soprano (La Frugola)
Charles Reid, tenor (Il Tinca/Ballad-Seller/Young Lover)
Janusz Monarcha, bass (Il Talpa)
Elisabeta Marin, soprano (Young Lover)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wiener Singakademie
Bertrand de Billy, conductor

Bertrand de Billy
was born in Paris where he studied music. Starting as a member of an orchestra, he soon took on conducting. 1993-95 he was first Kapellmeister and Deputy Music Director at the Anhaltisches Theatre in Dessau, 1996-98 he held the same position at the Vienna Volksoper. 1999-2004 he was Music Director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and 2002-2010 he was Music Director of the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna. Bertrand de Billy is principal guest conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (2013-2016). Since 2014/2015 he is also principal guest conductor of the Dresdner Philharmonie.

Already at an early stage of his carrier engagements brought him to the state operas in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Grand Théâtre de la Monnaie, Opéra National de Paris and to the opera houses in Washington and Los Angeles amongst others. Since 1997 he has been a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and since 2002 at the Salzburg Festival. Worldwide, he performed with leading orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre de Paris, the Wiener Symphoniker as well as Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Philharmoniker Hamburg, the RSB Berlin, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Königliche Kapelle Kopenhagen, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and many more. Bertrand de Billy conducts a wide repertoire from Bach to many world premieres and premieres. With the Theater an der Wien, the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus he is as closely connected as with the Vienna and Munich State Opera as well as the Frankfurt Opera.

Numerous CD and DVD recordings are documenting his work.

In France Bertrand de Billy is Chevalier de „l’ordre national de la légion d’honneur“, du „Mérite National“ et des „Arts et Lettres“. In Austria he got the „Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich“.

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