Verdi: La Traviata
Ileana 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
Awards:
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building a Library, October 2019, Recommended Recording
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...
Verdi: La Traviata
Ileana 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
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Awards:
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building a Library, October 2019, Recommended Recording
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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Contents and tracklist
- Helena Jungwirth (mezzo-soprano), Paul Friess (baritone), Giovanni Foiani (bass), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Paul Winter (tenor), Alfredo Giacomotti (bass), Bruno Grella (baritone), Walter Gullino (tenor), Stefania Malagù (soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Wolfgang Baumgart (chorus master)
- Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper München
- Carlos Kleiber
- Recorded: 1976-05-14
- Recording Venue: Bürgerbraü-Keller, Munich
Awards and reviews
2010 edition
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 in the party music...[but] the overall effect is highly involving, indeed thrilling, and this reissue must be counted an outstanding success.
Records and Recording December 1977
I am bound to say that, in terms of singing, playing, conducting and sound quality, this set comes closer to my notions of an ideal experience than any Verdi I have ever heard on disc.