Fausto Cleva
Regarded as a useful house conductor during his many years at the Metropolitan Opera, Fausto Cleva died before he saw his reputation grow to the more generous assessment that prevailed decades later. Always known as a singer's maestro, Cleva was also a conscientious interpreter of bracing urgency, a shrewd mentor, and an individual of integrity. Cleva's studies began at the conservatory in his native Trieste and continued in Milan. Shortly after he had made his debut at Milan's Teatro Carcano in 1920 conducting La traviata, Cleva traveled to America, almost immediately beginning his long association with the Metropolitan Opera. Serving as an assistant conductor from 1920 to 1925, and again from 1938 to 1940 (he served two stints as chorus master, as well, from 1935 to 1938 and in 1940 and 1941), he waited until February 14, 1942, to be assigned a performance of Rossini's Il barbière di Siviglia. Although reviews were laudatory, further opportunities seemed too doubtful to keep him in New York. Cleva departed to attend to other engagements, most notably at the Cincinnati Summer Opera, where he served as music director from 1934 to 1963. Other major American companies welcomed him as well. He conducted in Chicago (where he led performances from 1942 until the demise of the Chicago Opera in 1946, receiving especially good reviews for his leadership of the 1944 opening-night Carmen) and in San Francisco, strengthening that conducting roster beginning with a 1942 La traviata with Bidú Sayão. His position in the Italian wing of the San Francisco Opera substantially grew in the early '50s until his return to the Metropolitan as a full-fledged conductor expanded to keep him largely in New York. Cleva's November 13 direction of the Aida that opened the 1951 - 1952 Metropolitan season was regarded as the most sharply realized to have been heard in years, strongly cast with Milanov, del Monaco, and London. Concentrating on the Italian repertory with frequent excursions into the French, Cleva amassed a total of 677 Metropolitan Opera performances before his death while leading an Athens outdoor performance of Gluck's Orfeo et Euridice in 1971. Among Cleva's too-few recordings, a sumptuously cast Luisa Miller is a worthy memento of an underrated conductor.
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Verdi : Luisa Miller (Remastered) ((Remastered))
Intégrales d'opéra - Paru chez RCA Victor le 1 janv. 1965
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Excerpts from 'Otello'
Opéra - Paru chez Preiser Records le 30 août 2006
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Catalani: La Wally
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Coro Lirico di Torino, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte‐Carlo, Fausto Cleva
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1968
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Verdi : Il Trovatore (Metropolitan Opera)
Fausto Cleva; Leontyne Price, Irene Dalis, Franco Corelli, Mario Sereni
Intégrales d'opéra - Paru chez Sony Classical le 12 août 2011
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor ((Remastered))
Classique - Paru chez Sony Classical le 22 sept. 2017
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci ((Remastered))
Classique - Paru chez Sony Classical le 2 mars 2018
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Lucia di Lammermoor (Intégrale)
Intégrales d'opéra - Paru chez Myto Historical le 1 janv. 2015
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Gounod: Faust (Mono version)
Eugene Conley, Eleanor Steber, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva
Classique - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 2013
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Samson et Dalila (Intégrale)
Classique - Paru chez Myto Historical le 17 mars 2008
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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, extraits (Mono Version)
Risë Stevens, Mario del Monaco, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1959
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Verdi : Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera)
Fausto Cleva; Roberta Peters, Robert Merrill, Richard Tucker
Intégrales d'opéra - Paru chez Sony Classical le 15 juil. 2011
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Verdi: Les plus beaux airs d'Otello (Mono Version)
Eleanor Steber, Ramón Vinay, Fausto Cleva
Classique - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1954
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Aïda (Intégrale)
Intégrales d'opéra - Paru chez Myto Historical le 1 févr. 2015
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Le Trouvère
Opéra - Paru chez Myto Historical le 20 mai 2011
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Saint-Saëns : Samson et Dalida
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House,Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, Fausto Cleva, Ramón Vinay, Norman Scott
Opéra - Paru chez OperaPrima le 1 janv. 2013
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Manon Lescaut (Intégrale)
Intégrales d'opéra - Paru chez Myto Historical le 23 juin 2010
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GIORDANO: ANDREA CHÉNIER
Classique - Paru chez Nar Classical le 10 juil. 2023
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Otello (Intégrale)
Classique - Paru chez Myto Historical le 1 janv. 2015
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Andrea Chénier (Umberto Giordano)
Classique - Paru chez Myto Historical le 25 oct. 2010
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