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Verdi - Don Carlo
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Verdi: Don Carlos
Julian Gavin (Don Carlos), Janice Watson (Elisabeth), Alastair Miles (Philip II), William Dazeley (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa), Jane Dutton (Eboli), Sir John Tomlinson (Grand Inquisitor), Julia Sporsén (Thibault), Clive Bayley (Old Monk)
Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North, Richard Farnes
Best of the principals are Alastair Miles's distinctive King Philip; John Tomlinson's terrifying Grand Inquisitor and Clive Bayley's Monk. Opera North's choral and orchestral forces are both... — More…
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Special offer. 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: Don Carlo
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Carlo), Montserrat Caballé (Elisabetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo II), Shirley Verrett (Eboli), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Giovanni Foiani (Il Grande Inquisitore), Simon Estes (Un Frate), Delia Wallis (Tebaldo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Carlo Maria Giulini
From the day that Giulini conducted the now legendary production of Don Carlo at Covent Garden in 1958, a recording of the opera by him looked a must. In fact, it was to be 12 years before EMI... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
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Special offer. Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFive-act version
Plácido Domingo (Carlo), Montserrat Caballé (Elisabetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo II), Shirley Verrett (Eboli), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Giovanni Foiani (Il Grande Inquisitore), Simon Estes (Un Frate), Delia Wallis (Tebaldo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Carlo Maria Giulini
The CD transfer of the analogue recording brings astonishing vividness and realism, a tribute to the original engineering of Chirstopher Parker. Even in the big ensembles the focus is very precise,... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act version
Fernandi, Jurinac, Simionato, Bastianini, Siepi & Stefanoni
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version
Jon Vickers (Don Carlo), Gre Brouwenstijn (Elisabetta di Valois), Tito Gobbi (Rodrigo), Fedora Barbieri (La Principessa Eboli), Boris Christoff (Filippo II), Michael Langdon (Il Grande Inquisitore)
The Covent Garden Orchestra and Opera Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Giacomo Prestia (Filippo II), Mario Malagnini (Don Carlo), Simone Piazzola (Rodrigo), Luciano Montanaro (Il Grande Inquisitore), Cellia Costea (Elisabetta), Alla Pozniak (Eboli), Irene Candelier (Tebaldo/Una Voce dal Cielo)
Orchestra Regionale dell'Emilia-Romagna, Fabrizio Ventura
Malagnini's Carlo has a top and the ability to use it that Franco Corelli wouldn't have disowned, and his relationship with Cellia Costea's Elisabetta brings tears to the eyes, as does Alla... — More…
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Richard Tucker (Don Carlo), Delia Rigal (Elisabetta), Paolo Silveri (Rodrigo), Fedora Barbieri (Eboli), Jerome Hines (Filippo II), Hans Hotter (Il Grand Inquisitore) & Lucine Amara (voice from above)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Fritz Stiedry
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Special offer. Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act version
Leonie Rysanek (Elisabetta), Irene Dalis (Eboli), Franco Corelli (Don Carlo), Nicolae Herlea (Rodrigo), Giorgio Tozzi (Filippo II), Hermann Uhde (Il Grande Inquisitore), Marcia Baldwin (Tebaldo), Junetta Jones (Una voce dal cielo), Justino Díaz (Un Frate)
Metropolitan Opera, Kurt Adler
Corelli, one of the period's most viscerally exciting tenors, adds high notes and generally shows off, but in a way that is regularly thrilling. Leonie Rysanek's Elisabetta possesses discretion... — More…
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Special offer. Verdi: Don Carlo (highlights)
Michael Sylvester (Don Carlo), Ferrucio Furlanetto (Filippo II), Vladimir Chernov (Rodrigo), Samuel Ramey (Il Grande Inquisitore), Aprile Millo (Elisabetta), Dolora Zajick (Eboli), Jane Bunnell (Tebaldo), Paul Plishka (Un Frate)
Metropolitan Opera, James Levine
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