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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore

Maria Callas (Leonora), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Giuseppe di Stefano (Manrico), Rolando Panerai (Il Conte di Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Renato Ercolani (Un messo/Ruiz), Luisa Villa (Ines)

Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Herbert von Karajan

Verdi: Il Trovatore
Despite later uncut performances, Callas, di Stefano and Karajan at his most dramatic, are a thrilling team, with an excellent cast and vivid recording from EMI's LPs rather than master tapes.

BBC Music Magazine, July 20085 out of 5 stars

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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore

Maria Callas (Leonora), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Giuseppe di Stefano (Manrico), Rolando Panerai (Il Conte di Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Renato Ercolani (Un messo/Ruiz), Luisa Villa (Ines)

Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Herbert von Karajan

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This release includes a digital booklet

Despite later uncut performances, Callas, di Stefano and Karajan at his most dramatic, are a thrilling team, with an excellent cast and vivid recording from EMI's LPs rather than master tapes.

BBC Music Magazine, July 20085 out of 5 stars

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About

Studio recording, 1956

Before Maria Callas made this August 1956 recording of Il trovatore, at La Scala, Milan, in August 1956, she had been singing it often since 1950 and with notable success.

Contents and tracklist

Verdi: Il trovatore, Act I Scene 1
Work length10:39
All'erta, all'erta! (Ferrando, Retainers, Soldiers)
Track length3:01
Di due figli vivea (Ferrando, Retainers, Soldiers)
Track length6:18
Sull'orlo dei tetti alcun l'ha veduta! (Ferrando, Retainers, Soldiers)
Track length1:20
Verdi: Il trovatore, Act I Scene 2
Work length8:18
Che più t'arresti? (Inez, Leonora)
Track length2:16
Tacea la notte placida (Leonora, Inez)
Track length4:23
Di tale amo che dirsi (Leonora, Inez)
Track length1:39
Verdi: Il trovatore, Act I Scene 3
Work length8:10
Tace la notte! (Count)
Track length2:03
Deserto sulla terra (Manrico, Count, Leonora)
Track length3:29
Di geloso amor sprezzato (Count, Manrico, Leonora)
Track length2:38
Verdi: Il trovatore, Act II Scene 1
Work length23:08
Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie, "Anvil Chorus" (Gypsies)
Track length2:57
Stride la vampa (Azucena, Gypsies, Manrico, an old Gypsy)
Track length4:44
Soli or siamo (Manrico, Azucena)
Track length1:01
Condotto ell'era in ceppi (Azucena, Manrico)
Track length4:53
Non son tuo figlio? (Manrico, Azucena)
Track length2:29
Mal reggendo (Manrico, Azucena, Messenger)
Track length4:36
Perigliarti ancor languente (Azucena, Manrico)
Track length2:28
Verdi: Il trovatore, Act II Scene 2
Work length17:34
Tutto e deserto (Count, Ferrando)
Track length1:34
Il balen del suo sorriso (Count)
Track length3:15
Quel suono! Oh, ciel! … Per me ora fatale (Count, Ferrando, Retainers)
Track length3:41
Ah! Se l'error t'ingombra (Nuns, Count, Ferrando, Retainers)
Track length2:00
Perche piangete? (Leonora, Inez, Count, Nuns)
Track length2:17
E deggio e posso crederlo? (Leonora, Manrico, Count, Inez, Nuns, Ferrando, Retainers, Ruiz, Soldiers)
Track length4:47
Verdi: Il trovatore, Act III Scene 1
Work length11:49
Or co' dadi (Soldiers, Ferrando)
Track length1:57
Squilli, echeggi la tromba guerriera (Soldiers)
Track length2:28
In braccio al mio rival! (Count, Ferrando, Soldiers, Azucena)
Track length2:11
Giorni poveri vivea (Azucena, Ferrando, Count, Soldiers)
Track length5:13
Verdi: Il trovatore, Act III Scene 2
Work length9:45
Quale d'armi fragor poc'anzi intesi? (Leonora, Manrico)
Track length1:49
Ah, si, ben mio (Manrico)
Track length3:07
L'onda de' suoni mistici (Manrico, Leonora, Ruiz)
Track length1:22
Di quella pira (Manrico, Leonora, Ruiz, Soldiers)
Track length3:27
Verdi: Il trovatore, Act IV Scene 1
Work length22:22
Siam giunti (Ruiz, Leonora)
Track length3:02
D'amor sull'ali rosee (Leonora)
Track length4:08
Miserere d'un alma gia vicina (Monks, Leonora, Manrico)
Track length4:55
Di te, di te scordarmi! … Tu vedrai che amore in terra (Leonora)
Track length2:33
Udiste? (Count, Leonora)
Track length1:47
Mira, di acerbe lagrime (Leonora, Count)
Track length3:34
Vivra! Contende il giubilo (Leonora, Count)
Track length2:23
Verdi: Il trovatore, Act IV Scene 2
Work length17:51
Madre, non dormi (Manrico, Azucena)
Track length6:49
Ai nostri monti (Azucena, Manrico)
Track length2:06
Che! Non m'inganno! (Manrico, Leonora, Azucena)
Track length4:10
Ti scosta (Manrico, Leonora, Count, Azucena)
Track length4:46

Awards and reviews

July 2008

Despite later uncut performances, Callas, di Stefano and Karajan at his most dramatic, are a thrilling team, with an excellent cast and vivid recording from EMI's LPs rather than master tapes.
5 out of 5 stars

2010 edition

The combination of Karajan and Callas is formidably impressive. There is toughness and dramatic determination in Callas's singing...Barbieri is a magnificent Azucena, Panerai is a strong, incisive Count, and di Stefano is at his finest as Manrico...The Naxos transfer is well up to Mark Obert-Thorn's usual high standard, and one is struck by the wide dynamic range of the recording.
3 out of 4 stars
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