Domingo: The Verdi Opera Collection
Placido Domingo (tenor), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Aprile Millo (Luisa), Vladimir Chernov (Miller), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Walter), Florence Quivar (Federica), Paul Plishka (Wurm), Wendy White (Laura), John Bills (Contadino), Plácido Domingo (Manrico), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Leontyne Price...
Domingo: The Verdi Opera Collection
Placido Domingo (tenor), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Aprile Millo (Luisa), Vladimir Chernov (Miller), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Walter), Florence Quivar (Federica), Paul Plishka (Wurm), Wendy White (Laura), John Bills (Contadino), Plácido Domingo (Manrico), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Leontyne Price...
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About
To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, Sony Classical is releasing a joint tribute to the best-loved of all Italian opera composers and to one of the most remarkable and instantly recognisable tenor voices of our age: Plácido Domingo – The Verdi Opera Collection brings together the great Spanish tenor’s classic RCA and Sony Classical recordings of six complete Verdi operas on 15 CDs. The five RCA recordings included in Plácido Domingo – The Verdi Opera Collection all date from the first two decades of Domingo’s international career (1969–1978), when his gloriously burnished tone gleamed brightest; a relative rarity in the Verdi canon, the early Luisa Miller appears in a Sony Classical recording dating from 1991. Four of the six operas are conducted by James Levine, the New York Met’s long-time Music Director; the other two conductors are Zubin Mehta (Il trovatore) and Erich Leinsdorf (Aida). In three of the six operas (Il trovatore, Aida, La forza del destino) Domingo is partnered by one of the most sumptuous-voiced sopranos of our time, the Met’s then leading lady, Leontyne Price, while in those and two other titles (Otello, I vespri siciliani) Domingo’s baritone rival/nemesis is the always thrillingly virile Sherrill Milnes. Other notable singers, all stars of their day, include the sopranos Renata Scotto and Martina Arroyo, mezzos Fiorenza Cossotto and Grace Bumbry, and bass Ruggero Raimondi. The six operas included in Plácido Domingo – The Verdi Opera Collection are: Il trovatore (recorded 1969); Aida (1970); I vespri siciliani (1973); La forza del destino (1976); Otello (1978); and Luisa Miller. Specialist promo & marketing activity.
Artists
Placido Domingo (tenor), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Aprile Millo (Luisa), Vladimir Chernov (Miller), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Walter), Florence Quivar (Federica), Paul Plishka (Wurm), Wendy White (Laura), John Bills (Contadino), Plácido Domingo (Manrico), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Sherrill Milnes (Conte di Luna), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Ferrando), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ines), Ryland Davies (Ruiz), Stanley Riley (Un vecchio zingaro), Neilson Taylor (Un messo), Sherrill Milnes (Guido di Montforte), Plácido Domingo (Arrigo), Martina Arroyo (Elena), Terence Sharpe (Il Sire di Bethume), Ruggero Raimondi (Giovanni da Procida), Richard Van Allan (Il Conte Vaudemont), Maria Ewing (Ninetta), Leo Goeke (Danieli), Kenneth Collins (Tebaldo), James Morris (Roberto), Alan Byers (Manfredo), Placido Domingo (Don Alvaro), Sherrill Milnes (Don Carlo), Fiorenza Cossotto (Preziosilla), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Padre Guardiano), Gabriel Bacquier (Fra Melitone), Gillian Knight (Curra), Michel Sénéchal (Mastro Trabuco), William Elvin (Un Chirurgo), Malcolm King (Un Alcalde), Leontyne Price (Aida), Plácido Domingo (Radamès), Grace Bumbry (Amneris), Sherrill Milnes (Amonasro), Ruggero Raimondi (Ramphis), Hans Sotin (Il Re di Egitto), Joyce Mathis (Una Sacerdotessa), Bruce Brewer (Un Messaggero), Plácido Domingo (Otello), Renata Scotto (Desdemona), Sherrill Milnes (Iago), Frank Little (Cassio), Paul Crook (Rodrigo), Paul Plishka (Lodovico), Malcolm King (Montano/Un Araldo), Jean Kraft (Emilia)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonia Orchestra, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf
Contents and tracklist
- Wendy White (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Chernov (baritone), Aprile Millo (soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Paul Plishka (bass), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass), Florence Quivar (contralto), Jan-Hendrick Rootering, John Bills (tenor)
- Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
- James Levine
- Bonaldo Giaiotti (bass), John McCarthy (chorus master), Leontyne Price (soprano), Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo-soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo-soprano), Neilson Taylor (tenor), Ryland Davies (bass)
- Ambrosian Singers, New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
- Kenneth Collins (tenor), James Morris (bass), John Alldis (chorus master), Terence Sharpe (bass), Richard van Allan (bass), Leo Goeke (tenor), Martina Arroyo (soprano), Maria Ewing (soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Ruggero Raimondi (bass), Alan Byers (tenor)
- New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir
- James Levine
- Kurt Moll (bass), Leontyne Price (soprano), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor), John Alldis (chorus master), Malcolm King (baritone), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo-soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Bonaldo Giaiotti (bass), William Elvin (baritone), Peter Hall (tenor), Edgar Fleet (tenor), Brian Etheridge (bass), William Mason (bass), Valerie Hill (soprano)
- London Symphony Orchestra, John Alldis Choir
- James Levine
- Ruggero Raimondi (bass), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Leontyne Price (soprano), Hans Sotin (bass), Bruce Brewer (tenor), John Alldis (chorus master), Joyce Mathis (soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
- London Symphony Orchestra, John Alldis Choir
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Malcolm King (bass), Frank Little (tenor), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Paul Crook (tenor), Plácido Domingo (tenor), National Philharmonic Orchestra, Renata Scotto (soprano), Jean Kraft (mezzo-soprano), Paul Plishka (bass)
- The Ambrosian Opera and Boys Chorus, The Ambrosian Opera Boys Chorus, Ambrosian Singers
- James Levine