Verdi Box Set
Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton)
Peter Hoare, Gwynne Howell, Barbara Frittoli & Desirée Rancatore, José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il...
[On Rigoletto] With Christine Schäfer as a matchless Gilda and Edward Downes, the finest Verdian of the age, conducting, it’s a production that rages at the cruelty of the world. —
Contents
Verdi: Falstaff
- Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton) Peter Hoare, Gwynne Howell, Barbara Frittoli & Desirée Rancatore
- The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House
- Bernard Haitink (conductor) & Graham Vick (stage director)
Verdi: Il Trovatore
- Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 3rd May 2002
- José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il Conte di Luna), Yvonne Naef (Azucena), Verónica Villarroel (Leonora), Tomas Tomasson (Ferrando), Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (Ines), Edgaras Montvidas (Ruiz), Thomas Barnard (Old Gypsy)
- The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House
- Carlo Rizzi (conductor) & Elijah Moshinsky (stage director)
Verdi: Rigoletto
- Paolo Gavanelli (Rigoletto), Marcelo Alvarez (Il Duca), Christine Schäfer (Gilda), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Graciela Araya (Maddalena), Elizabeth Sikora (Giovanna), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Monterone), Quentin Hayes (Marullo), Peter Auty (Borsa) Graeme Broadbent, Dervla Ramsay, Paolo Gavanelli & Quentin Hayes
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Edward Downes (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
