Verdi: Il Trovatore
Maria Callas (Leonora), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Manrico), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Rolando Panerai (Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Luisa Villa (Ines)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan
Leonora was one of Callas’s finest stage roles and this recording is wonderfully intense, with a dark concentrated loveliness of sound in the principal arias. Karajan conducts with that almost...
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Maria Callas (Leonora), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Manrico), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Rolando Panerai (Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Luisa Villa (Ines)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan
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Leonora was one of Callas’s finest stage roles and this recording is wonderfully intense, with a dark concentrated loveliness of sound in the principal arias. Karajan conducts with that almost...
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The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI - The Home of Opera.
Bonus Disc contains synopsis and libretto with translation.
Contents and tracklist
- Renato Ercolani (tenor), Nicola Zaccaria (bass), Fedora Barbieri (contralto), Maria Callas (soprano), Luisa Villa (mezzo-soprano), Rolando Panerai (baritone), Giulio Mauri (baritone), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor)
- Teatro alla Scala
- Herbert von Karajan
- Recorded: 1956-08-09
- Recording Venue: 3-4 & 6-9 August 1956 / Teatro alla Scala, Milano
E deggio e posso crederlo? (Leonora / Conte / Manrico / Ines / Coro / Ferrando / Ruiz)
Track length4:45
Awards and reviews
Leonora was one of Callas’s finest stage roles and this recording is wonderfully intense, with a dark concentrated loveliness of sound in the principal arias. Karajan conducts with that almost insolent mastery of score and orchestra which made him such a phenomenon at this period of his career. Whatever you do, don’t miss this set
January 2011
Callas is on commanding form as Leonora, Di Stefano is at his best and the whole performance is knit together with superb dramatic flair by Karajan. This is one of the most memorable and enduring recordings ever made of Il Trovatore.
