MAGDA OLIVERO - The 1969 San Jacopino Concerto (complete)

It’s with great joy and with a profound admiration for Magda Olivero that I have the pleasure of offering this outstanding San Jacopino concert in it’s entirety. The video contains all thirteen arias in chronological order, and for the first time available in correct pitch as all other previous recordings and videos were half a tone too low. This rare “live“ concert is exceptional for the fact that Magda Olivero sang, with solo piano accompaniment, thirteen of the most celebrated and most difficult arias of the verismo repertoire in a single concert. Sopranos today would only sing 5 or 6 of those taxing arias in a recital. In Florence on March 28 1969, Magda Olivero had politely asked not to record the concert, but we can all be thankful to a daring music enthusiast that left it’s small Philips cassette recorder running during the entire concert. That evening, Magda could not have been in better voice, the intensity, the interiority and the sheer beauty of her interpretatio