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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedAnja Harteros (Aida), Jonas Kaufmann (Radamès), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris), Ludovic Tezier (Amonasro), Erwin Schrott (Ramfis), Marco Spotti (Il Re d'Egitto), Paolo Fanale (Un Messaggero), Eleonora Buratto (Sacerdotessa), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Anja Harteros can boast both the high-octane tone and the necessary level of dramatic expression to make Aida credibly three dimensional…[Ekaterina Semenchuk makes] many subtle observations... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd October 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2015, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Winner (Opera) and Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, October 2015, Record of the Week
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Opéra
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Aida), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Plinio Clabassi (Il Re di Egitto), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighiele (Una Sacerdotessa)
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir Georg Solti
Solti motivates his account of Verdi's score with thrilling dynamism, fully displaying the music's grandeur and depth as well as deriving considerable refinement from his Roman forces. His cast... —
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Elena Stikhina (Aida), Francesco Meli (Radamès), Agnieszka Rehlis (Amneris), Ludovic Tézier (Amonasro), Soloman Howard (Ramfis), Insung Sim (King), Francesca Chiejina (High Priestess), Andrés Presno (Messenger)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano,...
It all adds up to a brave attempt to rethink a work which, for all its popularity, can be notoriously elusive in performance, though ultimately its theatrical and vocal drawbacks don’t make... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedMontserrat Caballé (Aida), Plácido Domingo (Radamès), Fiorenza Cossotto (Amneris), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis), Piero Cappuccilli (Amonasro), Luigi Roni (The King of Egypt), Nicola Marinucci (Messenger) & Esther Casas (Priestess)
Royal Opera Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo...
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Building a Library, April 2017, First Choice
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
RecommendedMaria Chiara (Aida), Luciano Pavarotti (Radames), Ghena Dimitrova (Amneris), Leo Nucci (Amonasro), Paata Burchuladze (Ramfis), Luigi Roni (Il Re di Egitto), Madelyn Renée (Una Sacerdotessa), Ernesto Gavazzi (Un Messaggero)
Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel
Pavarotti was well into the autumn of his career when this recording under Lorin Maazel was made in 1985, but the golden lustre of the voice remains undimmed; starrier sopranos have recorded... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedErich Leinsdorf, London Symphony Orchestra, Plácido Domingo (tenor), Ruggero Raimondi (bass vocal), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Leontyne Price (soprano), Hans Sotin (bass vocal), John Alldis Choir, Bruce Brewer (tenor), Joyce Mathis (soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Opera Recording
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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedMaria Callas (Aida), Richard Tucker (Radamès), Fedora Barbieri (Amneris), Tito Gobbi (Amonasro), Giuseppe Modesti (Ramfis)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Verdi: Aida
Renata Tebaldi (Aida), Giulietta Simionato (Amneris), Carlo Bergonzi (Radamès), Cornell MacNeil (Amonasro), Arnold van Mill (Ramfis), Fernando Corena (Il Re di Egitto), Piero de Palma (Un Messaggero), Eugenia Ratti (Ina Sacerdotessa)
Vienna Singverien & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert...
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
recorded live in October 2004, at the Royal Opera House La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels
Norma Fantini (Aida), Marco Berti (Radamès), Ildiko Komlosi (Amneris), Mark Doss (Amonasro), Orlin Anastassov (Ramphis), Guido Jentjens (Il Re di Egitto), Michela Remor (Una Sacerdotessa), André Grégoire (Un Messaggero)
Symphony Orchestra and Choir of La Monnaie – De Munt, Kazushi Ono
As ever with Wilson's work, we are in a world and style influenced by Noh theatre and silent films with a kind of distanced, glacial, intermittently effective lighting plot. The effect is hieratical... —
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Verdi: Aida
Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Jon Vickers (tenor), Rita Gorr (mezzo-soprano), Leontyne Price (soprano), Plinio Clabassi (bass), Franco Ricciardi, Mietta Sighele, Robert Merrill (baritone), Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir Georg Solti Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma,...
One of the great recordings of Verdi’s opera, given distinction by Leontyne Price’s Aida, Jon Vickers’s Radamès, Rita Gorr’s Amneris, Robert Merrill’s Amonasro, and not least by Georg Solti’s... —
