Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino

Saioa Hernández (Leonora), Roberto Aronica (Don Alvaro), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Don Carlo), Annalisa Stroppa (Preziosilla), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Padre Guardiano), Nicola Alaimo (Fra Melitone)

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Carlus Padrissa (La Fura del Baus), Zubin Mehta

There are some excellent musical performances in this new production of La forza del destino, recorded last year at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, not least from the house orchestra,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Picture and Sound) More…

Release Date: 18th Feb 2022
Catalogue No: 37930
Label: Dynamic

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Verdi: La forza del destino

Saioa Hernández (Leonora), Roberto Aronica (Don Alvaro), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Don Carlo), Annalisa Stroppa (Preziosilla), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Padre Guardiano), Nicola Alaimo (Fra Melitone), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company), Carlus Padrissa
Zubin Mehta

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Giuseppe Verdi travelled to St Petersburg in 1862 to premiere La forza del destino, which had been commissioned by the city’s Imperial Theatre. The source material appealed to the composer’s sense of tragic intensity and the ruthlessness of destiny. The local audience was accustomed to 18th-century Italian opera as well as French grand opéra, and the resulting work is a synthesis of aristocratic drama and popular comedy. In 1869 he revised the work so that it ends in death and transfiguration. This critically admired production of the revised version is conducted by Zubin Mehta, in a new staging that was ‘enriched by some brilliant artists’ (Lyric Opera Journal).

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April 2022

There are some excellent musical performances in this new production of La forza del destino, recorded last year at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, not least from the house orchestra, on dazzling form under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Saioa Hernández gives a powerful, stately performance as Leonora; Amartuvshin Enkhbat – a voice to listen out for – is commanding as Don Carlo di Vargas.

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