VERDI: Il Trovatore - 2CD

Verdi (Cammarano)

Il Trovatore: 4 Acts

CD One: 66:35 minutes
Act I
Act II

CD Two: 60:53 minutes
Act III
Act IV

Maria Callas, Leonora
Fedora Barbieri, Azucena
Luisa Villa, Ines
Giuseppe di Stefano, Manrico
Renato Ercolani, Ruiz/Messenger
Rolando Panerai, Il Conte di Luna
Nicola Zaccaria, Ferrando
Giulio Mauri, Old Gypsy
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Noberto Mola, choral director
Herbert von Karajan, conductor

*** "The combination of [Maria] Callas and [Herbert von] Karajan is formidably impressive. There is toughness and determination in Callas' singing, whether in the coloratura or the dramatic passages, and this gives the heroine an unexpected depth of character which culminates in Callas' fine singing of (part of) an aria which used often to be cut entirely Tu vedrai che amore in terra.... [Fedora] Barbieri is a magnificent Ascuzena, [Rolando] Paneria a strong incisive Count, and [Giuseppe] di Stefano at his finest in Manrico."
Penguin Guide