(Rosa Raisa in the finale) 
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We are happy to offer the finale of Lodovico ROCCA's IL DIBUK, here performed live by OLIVIA STAPP as Leah and Nicola MARTINUCCI as Hanan. The recording goes back to 1982. The then 86 year old composer was present at this performance in Turin. Sender takes his daughter to the rabbi and asks him to free his daughter from the dybbuk but the attempt fails. Sender then repents and Hanan's spirit leaves the body of his beloved. When she's left alone to rest, his ghost appears to the unconscious girl, holding out his arms and calling imploringly to her. Leah dies while the chorus announces that the lovers are united for ever.
All photos courtesy Charles Mintzer collection.
(Rosa Raisa in the finale) (Rocca)
(Frederik Jagel as Hanan and Rosa Raisa as Leah)
For the twentieth anniversary of the State of Israel Mordechai SETER (=Marc Starominsky 1916-1994) composed his SABBATH CANTATE. You can listen to the mezzo solo as sung by RACHEL NACHMIAS in the May 1968 b'cast conducted by Gary BERTINI. Listen to the original intro to the b'cast.
Seter's Sabbath cantate, mezzo solo by RACHEL NACHMIAS
In 1952 a Milan Friday Evening and Saturday service was recorded featuring tenor Vasco Campagnano and veteran soprano JOLE JACCHIA under the Scala opera chorus conductor Vittorio VENEZIANI. All three of them survivors.
Hebrew 'Haendel-like" duo from the 1732 cantate "Dove in the clefts of the Rock", composer unknown, libretto by S.H. Jarach. This music stems from the Jewish community of Casale Monferrato in Piedmont, northern Italy. The counter tenor duet is sung by Yaakov Zamir and Aris Christofellis.