This is one of the most exquisite things I have ever heard! The finale of the cantilena at 7:00-7:12 takes your breath away! RIP Mme Leyla!! No one will ever repeat your grandeur!
By the way, the final variations were written by Gavazzeni and, I think,together with Gencer. In a radio broadcast she called these variations "turco-bergamasche"! Great, incomparable Leyla!
E' spettacolare quello che la Gencer ha saputo fare con una voce sostanzialmente piccola ma con una timbrica aristocratica ed un'alta scuola.... (Giannina Arangi Lombardi docet)
If this is the Palermo performance, they HAD an opening night. I have recorded it by radio and there are interviews with Bacchelli and Gencer, . bY THE WAY, i THINK AFER THIS elisabetta the Mssimo theater closed fo quite a number of years due to restyling.
Yes, I must apologize. It is clearly indicated 1970. The production was actually postponed to December 1971 with Margherita Guglielmi replacing Sylvia Gestzy. Thank you.
