Verdi - Il Trovatore | Naxos - Historical 811128081

Verdi - Il Trovatore

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 811128081

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 4th January 2008

Contents

Artists

Giuseppe Di Stefano
Maria Callas
Rolando Panerai
Fedora Barbieri
Nicola Zaccaria
Renato Ercolani
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan

Conductor

Herbert von Karajan

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

Il trovatore

Artists

Giuseppe Di Stefano
Maria Callas
Rolando Panerai
Fedora Barbieri
Nicola Zaccaria
Renato Ercolani
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan

Conductor

Herbert von Karajan

About

Before Maria Callas made this August 1956 recording of Il trovatore, at La Scala, Milan, in August 1956, she had been singing it often since 1950 and with notable success.

Her 1953 Covent Garden performances earned golden opinions. The Times critic wrote: “[she] sang and acted everyone off the stage… The beauty of her line, its plasticity, and its strength, and the easy richness with which she unfolds long phrases, was memorably shown in Tacea la notte”.

Throughout this recording, Callas’ singing of Leonora’s music is superlative. In, for example, 'D’amor sull’ali rosee', her delivery is so musically authoritative she shapes the long phrases with subtle use of rubato and perfectly drawn portamenti, each differently weighted according to the dynamics, the interval accomplished and the speed of the music.

Cast:
Manrico - Giuseppe Di Stefano
Leonora - Maria Callas
Count di Luna - Rolando Panerai
Azucena - Fedora Barbieri
Ferrando - Nicola Zaccaria
Ruiz - Renato Ercolani

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