Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).

Rossini, Armida, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, July 1985, Gabriele Ferro. A SECOND NIGHT of the run already represented by findopera 12161, created because the two tapes are demonstrably different performances. WHY THIS IS NOT 12161. A folder arrived named "Armida - 1985.07.23 (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro c Ferro, la Fenice)", and 12161 already had a rip, named for 21 July. The two were compared as whole envelopes, decoded to raw mono at 4 kHz and correlated with 8-second waveform probes searched against +/-90 s and then +/-400 s of the other rip at the same position: self-test, one rip against itself lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 9/9 probes positive control, one file at 160 kbps stereo vs 96 kbps mono lag 0.000 s, r 1.000, 16/16 probes filed rip (128k, 3 files by act) vs this one (160k, 2 CD images) lag wandered from -372 s to +390 s, std 42 s at +/-90 s span, median |r| 0.073, only 1 of 45 probes within 50 ms of the median Durations are close (139:01 against 138:38) and the coarse amplitude envelope aligns to +5 s, which is exactly what two nights of one run look like; the waveform does not lock anywhere. That is the SKILL's documented signature of two different performances, not one tape in two transfers, and not one performance heard by two microphones (which locks in time even when the sign wanders). THE RUN. La Stampa's STASERA column of Sunday 21 July 1985, p.22: "VENEZIA -- Alla Fenice va in scena Armida, opera seria di Gioacchino Rossini, con Katia Ricciarelli e Curtis Rayam. Dirige Gabriele Ferro, regia di Egisto Marcucci, scene e costumi di Lele Luzzati e Santuzza Cali." So 21 July was the opening night. Paolo Gallarati reviewed it two days later, "A Venezia un'Armida che innamora", La Stampa, 23 July 1985, http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1005_01_1985_0157_0023_22866042/ . operadis (CLROARMI.HTM) has one entry for this production and dates it only to "July 1985", citing the house chronology "Il Teatro La Fenice - Cronologia degli Spettacoli 1938-1991", p.415. WHY NO DAY IS RECORDED. The arriving folder says 23 July, but 23 July is also the day Gallarati's review was printed, and the SKILL warns specifically that a review's publication date gets mistaken for a performance date. La Fenice has no online performance archive, La Stampa carried no further Armida notice that season, and operadis gives no day, so nothing outside the folder name puts a performance on the 23rd. The audio proves this is not the 21st; it does not prove which other night it is. `day` is therefore left unset rather than committed to a reading. The folder's claim is preserved in a NOTE.md beside the files. CAST. Not separately documented for this night -- the folder carries no cast sheet of its own. Entered as the run's cast, which operadis takes from the Fenice chronology and which the 12161 rip's in-house sheet gives role by role; the arriving folder's own billing (Ricciarelli, Rayam, Gimenez, Zennaro) agrees with it. Idraote is Alfredo Giacomotti and Astarotte Giovanni Antonini, following Gallarati's review ("...Giovanni Antonini (Astarotte). Al basso Alfredo Giacomotti (Idraote)...") and the house chronology, not the in-house sheet, which wrongly has one bass doubling both. Billing: Armida (Ricciarelli, the title role), Rinaldo (Rayam), Goffredo (Gimenez).