Verdi: Macbeth
Leo Nucci (Macbeth), Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Samuel Ramey (Banco), Veriano Luchetti (Macduff), Antonio Barasorda (Malcolm), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Dama), Sergio Fontana (Medico)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
For a time Shirley Verrett was the world's favourite Lady Macbeth. And Chailly reminds us why. Nucci is a sweet-toned villain, but it's Ramey as Banquo who carries off the prizes.
Verdi: Macbeth
Leo Nucci (Macbeth), Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Samuel Ramey (Banco), Veriano Luchetti (Macduff), Antonio Barasorda (Malcolm), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Dama), Sergio Fontana (Medico)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
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For a time Shirley Verrett was the world's favourite Lady Macbeth. And Chailly reminds us why. Nucci is a sweet-toned villain, but it's Ramey as Banquo who carries off the prizes.
About
Recorded in 1986 (for Claude d`Anna's film of the opera)
Contents and tracklist
- Samuel Ramey (bass), Leo Nucci (baritone), Gianfranco Casarini (baritone), Shirley Verrett (soprano), Antonio Barasorda (tenor), Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano), Veriano Luchetti (tenor), Gastone Sarti (tenor), Barbara Briscik (soprano), Marco Fanti (boy soprano), Natale de Carolis (baritone), Giuseppe Morresi (bass), Sergio Fontana (bass)
- Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
- Riccardo Chailly
- Recorded: 1986-05
- Recording Venue: Chiesa Di San Giorgio Poppiale, Bologna
Awards and reviews
June 2012
For a time Shirley Verrett was the world's favourite Lady Macbeth. And Chailly reminds us why. Nucci is a sweet-toned villain, but it's Ramey as Banquo who carries off the prizes.
June 1987
Nucci's Macbeth is full of the right sense of fear, foreboding and nervous energy, and it is predominantly well sung...Ramey provides quite the best singing, a sturdy, imposing Banquo...The smaller roles are very well taken...[Chailly's] direction seems direct, unfussy and keen
