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Verdi - La Forza Del Destino | Naxos - Historical 811132224

Verdi - La Forza Del Destino

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 811132224

Barcode: 0747313332229

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 4th January 2008

Contents

Artists

Maria Callas
Richard Tucker
Carlo Tagliabue
Elena Nicolai
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Reato Capecchi
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala Milan

Conductor

Tullio Serafin

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

La forza del destino

Artists

Maria Callas
Richard Tucker
Carlo Tagliabue
Elena Nicolai
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Reato Capecchi
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala Milan

Conductor

Tullio Serafin

About

Although this 1954 recording of La forza del destino is not without flaws, Maria Callas casts her Donna Leonora in the grand manner and her breath spans are of a truly notable length. She makes us conscious of every section of Leonora's music, setting off the first scene in Act 1 with fitting simplicity.

In the Act III duet with Padre Guardiano, 'Piu tranquilla', Callas shows her just rendition of note values: each of them is sung as Verdi specifies, contained within a perfect legato and yet she injects the subtlest rubato so giving it life.

Under Serafin's inspired direction, she sings the two famous arias 'Madre, peetosa vergine' and 'Pace, pace mio Dio', with appropriate grandeur, on a tragic scale, underlining Verdi's indications 'come un lamento' and 'con dolore'.

CD1
Overture
Acts I & II

CD2
Act III

CD3
Act IV
Verdi: La forza del destino - highlights with Milanov, Peerce and Warren

Cast:
Donna Leonora - Maria Callas
Don Alvaro - Richard Tucker
Don Carlo di Vargas - Carlo Tagliabue
Preziosilla - Elena Nicolai
Padre Guardiano - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Fra Melitone - Reato Capecchi

Recorded 17-21, 23-25 and 27 August 1954 in the Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

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