Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete Opera recorded 1956)
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete Opera recorded 1956)
Maria Callas, Rolando Panerai, Giuseppe di Stefano, Fedora Barbieri / Teatro alla Scala di Milano, von Karajan
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 10 October 2014
Like Norma, the role of Leonora in Il trovatore demands both bel canto finesse and considerable vocal and dramatic weight, but Callas sang it only some 20 times. This recording - in which she, Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe di Stefano and Roland Panerai constitute a suitably impressive quartet of principals - marked her farewell to the complete role and also her final collaboration with Herbert von Karajan.
"The combination of Karajan and Callas is formidably impressive. There is toughness and dramatic determination in Callas's singing, whether in coloratura or in dramatic passages."
- Penguin Stereo Guide
"Callas and Karajan took the world by the ears in the 1950s with this recording of Il Trovatore. Leonora was one of Callas's finest stage roles and this recording is wonderfully intense. Karajan, the perfect choice as conductor, brings that almost insolent mastery of score and orchestra which made him such a phenomenon at this period in his career."
- Gramophone
