Fiorenza Cossotto
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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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Bellini: Norma
Montserrat Caballé (Norma), Fiorenza Cossotto (Adalgisa), Plácido Domingo (Pollione), Ruggero Raimondi (Oroveso), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Clotilde), Kenneth Collins (Flavio)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Carlo Felice Cillario
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Special offer. Verdi: Un giorno di regno
José Carreras, Jessye Norman & Fiorenza Cossoto
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
RecommendedMaria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giulio Fioraventi, Dino Formachini
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Tullio Serafin
This performance is unique, with Act 4 for once a culmination in Callas's supreme account of the death scene. She may present a rather formidable portrait of a young girl in Act 1, but here... —
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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Special offer. Cherubini: Medea
Maria Callas (Medea), Jon Vickers (Giasone), Fiorenza Cossotto (Neris), Nicola Zaccaria (Creonte), Joan Carlyle (Glauce), Mary Wells (First Maidservant), Elizabeth Rust (Second Maidservant) & David Allen (Captain of the Guard)
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
[This version] would have small claims to be authentic...What is authentic is the passion and intensity that Callas brings to would become one of her greatest roles...The supporting cast is... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Lifetime Achievement Award
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Puccini: Passion & Drama
32 Famous Melodies
Jussi Björling (tenor), Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Maria Callas (soprano), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor), Mirella Freni (soprano), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo-soprano), Mario del Monaco (tenor), Gianna D'Angelo, Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Robert Merrill (baritone), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Birgit Nilsson (soprano),...
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Renata Tebaldi (Madama Butterfly), Carlo Bergonzi (B. F. Pinkerton), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Paolo Washington (The Bonze), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton), Michele Cazzato (Prince Yamadori), Virgilio Carbonari (The Imperial Commissioner), Oscar...
This is Tebaldi's second complete Butterfly and her voice is still incomparable in the title role. —
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Anna Moffo (soprano), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Dora Gatta (soprano), Ivo Vinco (bass), Fiorenza Cossotto (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Renato Ercolani (tenor), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabetta Fusco (soprano), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Diana Cunningham (soprano), Gillian...
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