Ileana Cotrubas
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedIleana Cotrubas (Violetta), Plácido Domingo (Alfredo), Sherrill Milnes (Giorgio Germont), Stefania Malagù (Flora), Helena Jungwirth (Annina), Walter Gullino (Gastone), Giovanni Foiani (Dottore Grenvil)
Bayerischer Staatsoper, Carlos Kleiber
Cotrubas makes an ideal heroine in this opera, for her characterization combines strength with vulnerability...Kleiber's direction is controversial, with more than a hint of Toscanini-like rigidity... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building a Library, October 2019, Recommended Recording
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk
The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedIleana Cotrubas (Violetta Valery), Stefania Malagu (Flora Bervoix), Helena Jungwirth (Annina), Placido Domingo (Alfredo Germont), Sherrill Milnes (Giorgio Germont), Walter Gullino (Gastone), Bruno Grella (Barone Douphol) Alfredo Giacomotti (Marchese d’Obigny), Giovanni Foiani (Dottore Grenvil), Walter...
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Building a Library, January 2007, First Choice
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
RecommendedIleana Cotrubas (Adina), Plácido Domingo (Nemorino), Geraint Evans (Dulcamara), Ingvar Wixell (Belcore), Lillian Watson (Giannetta)
Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royle Opera House‚ Covent Garden, Sir John Pritchard
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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Special offer. Cavalli: La Calisto
James Bowman (countertenor), Janet Hughes (soprano), Peter Gottlieb (baritone), Teresa Cahill (soprano), Teresa Kubiak (soprano), Owen Brannigan (bass), Ugo Trama (bass), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Hugues Cuénod (tenor), Marjorie Biggar (mezzo-soprano), Federico...
Leppard conducts a superb cast with Janet Baker in one of her greatest roles as the Goddess Diana, Ileana Cotrubas a touching Calisto and James Bowman in his prime as Endimione. —
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Réédition
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Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
RecommendedMontserrat Caballé (Fiordiligi), Dame Janet Baker (Dorabella), Nicolai Gedda (Ferrando), Wladimiro Ganzarolli (Guglielmo), Ileana Cotrubas (Despina), Richard van Allan (Don Alfonso)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Sir Colin Davis
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Grammy Awards, 18th Awards (1975), Best Opera Recording
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Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedIl tabarro
Ingvar Wixell (Michele), Plácido Domingo (Luigi), Renata Scotto (Giorgetta), Gillian Knight (La Frugola), Michel Sénéchal (Il Tinca), Dennis Wicks (Il Talpa), John Treleaven (Venditore di canzonette), Yvonne Kenny, Peter Jeffes (Due Amanti)
Suor Angelica...
The highlight of this set...is an outstanding Suor Angelica, with Renata Scotto in the title role, supported by Marilyn Horne as her aunt, and Ileana Cotrubas (who also sings Lauretta in Schicchi)... —
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Piero Cappuccilli (Rigoletto), Ileana Cotrubas (Gilda), Plácido Domingo (Il Duca), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Sparafucile), Elena Obraztsova (Maddalena), Hanna Schwarz (Giovanna), Kurt Moll (Monterone), Luigi de Corato (Marullo), Walter Gullino (Borsa), Dirk Sagemuller (Conte di Ceprano), Olive Fredricks...
By and large this set of Rigoletto must now become the recommended version. [This recording was met with] excited anticipation at finding Giulini once again in the studio recording his beloved... —
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Blu-ray)
Peter Schreier (Tamino), Christian Boesch (Papageno), Edita Gruberova (Queen of the Night), Ileana Cotrubas (Pamina), Martti Talvela (Sarastro), Walter Berry (Sprecher), Horst Hiestermann (Monostatos), Gudrun Sieber (Papagena)
Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Christa Ludwig (contralto)
Vienna Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta
Mehta at his most dramatic...The chorus is appropriately hushed in its first entry and rousing at the end of the piece. My real reason for choosing this recording, though, is quite simple: Christa... —
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