Verdi: Rigoletto
Leonard Warren (Rigoletto), Erna Berger (Gilda), Jan Peerce (Il Duca di Mantova), Nan Merriman (Maddalena), Italo Tajo (Sparafucile), Mary Kreste (Giovanna), Richard Wentworth (Monterone), Arthur Newman (Marullo), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Borsa), Paul Ukena (Il Conte di Ceprano), Joyce White (La Contessa...
Verdi: Rigoletto
Leonard Warren (Rigoletto), Erna Berger (Gilda), Jan Peerce (Il Duca di Mantova), Nan Merriman (Maddalena), Italo Tajo (Sparafucile), Mary Kreste (Giovanna), Richard Wentworth (Monterone), Arthur Newman (Marullo), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Borsa), Paul Ukena (Il Conte di Ceprano), Joyce White (La Contessa...
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About
Originally released in 1950, and now making its debut appearance on CD, this was the earliest LP version of Verdi’s vendetta-driven drama and showcases the nobly sympathetic jester of the old Met’s leading baritone, Leonard Warren, just a decade before his untimely death, on stage at the Met, at the age of only 48. He is partnered here by the German soprano Erna Berger as a girlish-toned Gilda and leading Met tenor Jan Peerce as the philandering Duke.
Artists
Leonard Warren (Rigoletto), Erna Berger (Gilda), Jan Peerce (Il Duca di Mantova), Nan Merriman (Maddalena), Italo Tajo (Sparafucile), Mary Kreste (Giovanna), Richard Wentworth (Monterone), Arthur Newman (Marullo), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Borsa), Paul Ukena (Il Conte di Ceprano), Joyce White (La Contessa di Ceprano/Un paggio)
RCA Italiana Orchestra, Renato Cellini
Contents and tracklist
- RCA Victor Orchestra, Italo Tajo (bass), Mary Kreste, Nathaniel Sprinzena (tenor), Paul Ukena (baritone), Erna Berger (soprano), Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano), Leonard Warren (baritone), Jan Peerce (tenor), Arthur Newman (bass), Joyce White, Richard Wentworth, Robert Shaw Chorale
- Renato Cellini
