Alfredo Catalani
Italian operatic composer
Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva. Catalani's other operas were much less successful.
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Works
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Box sets & recent recordings
- Great Opera Arias — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alfredo Catalani, Antonín Dvořák, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Gounod, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claude Debussy, Claudio Monteverdi, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frideric Handel (2025) box set · 50 tracks Spotify
- Catalani: La Wally — Alfredo Catalani, Renata Tebaldi, Arturo Basile, Orchestra di Roma della RAI (1960) box set · 39 tracks Spotify
- Alfredo Catalani - Complete Songs Piano Music — Alfredo Catalani, Lisa Houben, Filippo Arlia (2023) Spotify
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