Verdi - Il Trovatore
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Now and then there are hints of another great Italian-style tenor, the stylish Alfredo Kraus. It's there in the hushed tone Grigolo adopts for the 'Favorita del re!...Spirto gentil' from La... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Nouveau Talent
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Leonora), Placido Domingo (Manrico), Sherrill Milnes (Il Conte di Luna), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Ferrando), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ines), Ryland Davies (Ruiz)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
The Leonora of Leontyne Price is the high point of the Mehta recording: her velvety, sensuous articulation of what's certainly an 'immenso, eterno amor' is entirely distinctive and dramatically... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Carlo Bergonzi (Manrico), Antonietta Stella (Leonora), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Ettore Bastianini (Conte di Luna), Ivo Vinco (Ferrando), Franco Ricciardi (Ruiz), Armanda Bonato (Ines)
Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Jussi Bjorling (Manrico), Zinka Milanov (Leonora), Leonard Warren (Il Conte di Luna), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Nicola Moscona (Ferrando), Margaret Roggero (Ines), Paul Franke (Ruiz), George Cehanovsky (Un vecchio zingaro), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Un messo)
RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale,...
among the very finest recorded versions. The transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn bring out the full beauty and character of all four principals very vividly...Bjorling is, as ever, superb in his heroic... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Le Trouvère
Giuseppe Gipali (Manrique), Franco Vassallo (Comte de Luna), Roberta Mantegna (Léonore), Nino Surguladze (Azucena)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Roberto Abbado, Robert Wilson
immensely moving... moments of comparative greatness and the involvement of the soloists is tangible. —
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Roberto Alagna (Manrico), Angela Gheorghiu (Leonora), Thomas Hampson (Il Conte di Luna), Larissa Diadkova (Azucena), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Ferrando)
London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Plácido Domingo (Manrico), Rosalind Plowright (Leonora), Brigitte Fassbaender (Azucena), Giorgio Zancanaro (Luna), Evgeny Nesterenko (Ferrando)
Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Carlo M. Giulini
As a whole, the interpretation encompasses everything from the dark, conspiratorial air of the start (Nesterenko quite excellent) through the ardent statements of love from three of the principals... —
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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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th August 2013
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
RecommendedMaria Callas (Leonora), Giuseppe di Stefano (Manrico), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Rolando Panerai (Il Conte di Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Luisa Villa (Ines), Renato Ercolani (Ruiz), Giulio Mauri (Un vecchio zingaro), Renato Ercolani (Un messo)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan,...
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Building A Library, November 2024, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Katia Ricciarelli (Leonora), José Carreras (Manrico), Stefania Toczyska (Azucena), Robert Lloyd (Ferrando), Phyllis Cannan (Ines), Robin Leggate (Ruiz), Roderick Earle (Un vecchio zingaro), John Treleaven (Un messo)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis
