Verdi-Don Carlo - Solti; La Forza del destino - Muti; Un Ballo in maschera - Karajan Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo ( 3 cds de su obra)

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Verdi-Don Carlo - Solti; La Forza del destino - Muti; Un Ballo in maschera - Karajan
Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo ( 3 cds de su obra)

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Georg Solti, Carlo Bergonzi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Grace Bumbry, Jeannette Sinclair, Kenneth MacDonald, Martti Talvela, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Renata Tebaldi, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, Covent Garden
Recording date: 1965

Giuseppe Verdi: La Forza del destino
Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Recording date: 1986

Giuseppe Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker, Placido Domingo, Josephine Barstow Recording date: 1989

Here is the second part of my tribute to Verdi for Classics community.

Firstly, Don Carlo, conducted by Solti in 1966 with a pleiad of great singers (Bergonzi, Tebaldi, Ghiaurov, Fischer-Dieskau, Talvela, Bumbry): in my opinion, one of the ever best registred operas (with Don Giovanni - Giulini and Tristan - Kleiber...). A masterpiece! (3 CD, Decca, 1966).

Secondly, La Forza del destino, a strange opera, in which Verdi mixes tragic, sacred and grotesque (Fra Melitone or Preziosilla) elements, like Victor Hugo in France. I chose the best (?) version, with Domingo, Freni and Zancanaro in the leading roles. Muti conducts brilliantly the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. (3 CD, EMI, 1986)

Thirdly, Un Ballo in Maschera, a less known work, and yet worthy of the great Verdi. I hesitated for the version, and chose Karajan 1989. I know that Josephine Barstow is not the best Amelia and can't efface the memory of La Callas (Votto, 1956) or Leontyne Price (Leindsdorf 1970) but Placido Domingo is very good in Gustavo III and it's one of the last recordings of the Master Karajan, who was ill and haunted by the death when he conducted the work (he died in 1989). I find there's a special vibration in the orchestral tissue and I find it fits with this desperate and bitter opera... (2 CD, DG, 1989)

A last word. Perhaps because I'm not young, I prefer CD to DVD. I like to imagine the characters (above all when the singer doesn't look like the character...) without pictures in front of my eyes and without stupid stages (I go to the opera sometimes).

Enjoy the invisible show...

Coming soon : Simon Boccanegra, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto (but not Les Vêpres siciliennes because it's already on Classics, see Composer)

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