Verdi - La forza del destino
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Joseph Calleja - Verdi
RecommendedJoseph Calleja (tenor), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ramón Tebar
For the love duet from Otello…he sounds marvellously virile and tireless…Calleja has not yet learnt the required inwardness for Otello’s two great monologues, but he has the voice for all these... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Placido Domingo (Don Alvaro), Sesto Bruscantini (Fra Melitone), Francesca Garbi (Curra), Ernesto Gavazzi (Mastro Trabuco), Giorgio Zancanaro (Don Carlo di Vargas), Dolora Zajick (Preziosilla), Giorgio Surian (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Paul Plishka (Padre Guardiano), Mirella Freni (Donna Leonora),...
Sergei Larin’s Grigory and Marjana Lipovšek’s Marina are exciting. — More…
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Maria Callas (Leonora), Richard Tucker (Don Alvaro), Carlo Tagliabue (Don Carlo), Plinio Clabassi (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Elena Nicolai (Preziosilla), Renato Capecchi (Fra Melitone), Rina Cavallari (Curra), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Padre Guardiano), Gino Del Signore (Mastro Trabuco), Dario Caselli...
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Maria Caniglia, Tancredi Pasero, Carlo Tagliabue
RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Turin, Gino Marinuzzi
This is a fascinating, unmissable set both in historic and musical terms. Marinuzzi, a Toscanini coeval at La Scala, was chosen as conductor, and it's his only complete recording of an opera.... — More…
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Placido Domingo: Verdi
RecommendedPlacido Domingo (baritone), Angel Joy Blue (Amelia), Gianluca Buratto (Fiesco), Fernando Piqueras (Paolo), Bonifaci Carrillo (Pietro), Aquiles Machado (Gabriele), Gianluca Buratto (Ferrando), Aquiles Machado (Carlo), Gianluca Buratto (Chirurgo)
Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Pablo Heras-Casado
Verdi himself would surely have applauded the expressivity of such singing where character is all...no one should pretend this voice is what it was: it is showing its age...Yet I can't imagine... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th August 2013
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Leontyne Price, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Fiorenza Cossotto, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Gabriel Bacquier, Michel Sénéchal, Kurt Moll, Malcolm King, William Elvin
London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine
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Verdi: La forza del destino
RecommendedGiovanni Foiani (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Leontyne Price (Leonora di Vargas), Robert Merrill (Don Carlo), Richard Tucker (Don Alvaro), Shirley Verrett (Preziosilla), Ezio Flagello (Fra Melitone), Corinna Vozza (Curra), Giorgio Tozzi (Padre Guardiano), Piero De Palma (Mastro Trabuco), Mario Rinaudo...
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Building A Library, February 2019, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: La forza del destino
RecommendedRenata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato, Cesare Siepi, Silvio Maionica, Gabriella Carturan & Piero di Palma
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
This sprawling epic has a very fine cast, with Renata Tebaldi as an almost ideal Leonora, and the loud impressive del Monaco as the hero. The early stereo sound is good, but the conducting... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Recommended(complete opera)
Rosalind Plowright, Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Renato Bruson, Paata Burchuladze, Juan Pons, John Tomlinson
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Opera
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Mario Verazzi (Calatrava), Gré Brouwenstijn (Leonora), Aldo Protti (Vargas), Richard Tucker (Alvaro), Mignon Dunn (Preziosilla) & Norman Scott (Padre Guardiano)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Colon, Fernando Previtali
2 CDs
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