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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 27 December 2016, 16:46

Title: Zelenski Goplana
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 27 December 2016, 16:46
I note that Zelenski's opera is now available from Premiereopera Italy:
http://premiereopera.net/product/goplana-by-zelenski-warsaw-2016/ (http://premiereopera.net/product/goplana-by-zelenski-warsaw-2016/)

...and that (presumably the same performance) can be heard on YouTube, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJZ5jmwylA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJZ5jmwylA)
Title: Re: Zelenski Goplana
Post by: Mark Thomas on Tuesday 27 December 2016, 22:26
Thanks Alan. We had a recoding of an earlier Polish radio broadcast in our Downloads Board years ago, but that seems to have vanished. The YouTube video of the performance is passable, and even has English subtitles.
Title: Re: Zelenski Goplana
Post by: jdperdrix on Friday 30 December 2016, 09:41
Same performance than the youtube one, but better quality on the opera platform: http://www.theoperaplatform.eu/fr/opera/zelenski-goplana (http://www.theoperaplatform.eu/fr/opera/zelenski-goplana)
Title: Re: Zelenski Goplana
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 23 February 2017, 10:26
Just received my copy from Premiereopera Italy - and really lovely music it is too. I think we've known for some time now that there were several top-flight composers preceding the generation of Szymanowski, e.g. in particular Noskowski and Zelenski. This opera is further proof of the latter's mastery.
Title: Re: Zelenski Goplana
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 23 February 2017, 10:45
Oh, and the idiom? Somewhere west of Tchaikovsky (there's an especially fine tenor aria approx. half an hour into track 2 of CD1 that will remind you of Lenski's aria in Eugene Onegin). Gounod and Massenet may be in the mix too. In short: magical, memorable, melodic - and incidentally, beautifully sung. This performance really ought to be made available commercially. It'd be a hit...
Title: Re: Zelenski Goplana
Post by: M. Yaskovsky on Friday 24 February 2017, 08:14
Another way of obtaining this score, now on DVD-video. And very cheap....
http://www.premiereopera.com/dvd14208goplanazelenski.aspx
Title: Re: Zelenski Goplana
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 04 July 2021, 22:39
And now there's a forthcoming release on DVD:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8934446--wladyslaw-zelenski-goplana
Title: Re: Zelenski Goplana
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 28 August 2021, 05:13
For anyone curious about this superb opera, go to YouTube for a performance recorded back in 2000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWovqOQMrEs

Report on the new DVD forthcoming...