Catalani: La Wally
) | Label: CAPRICCIO Catalog: C9005 Format: DVD Burg; Kugel; Ferreira; Chor des Tiroler Landestheater; Orchester des Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck; RumpfComposed by: Catalani, Alfredo “Once upon a time there was a young woman who was more courageous than all the men in her mountain village”. Given the era, what sounds like a fictitious story really happened. Anna Stainer-Knittel’s (b. 1841) life was novelized and serialized with filtered in motifs from Tyrolean legend in a Milan paper by Wilhelmine von Hillern, where the Italian composer Alfredo Catalani (1854-93) became aware of it. Its first staging at La Scala in Milan, 1892 met with great approval.  Price: $25.98 |