Music / Performing Arts, Comedy - Director: Trevor Nunn, Geoffrey Posner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, Parental Guidance - Starring: Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood, Jim Broadbent
Production Year: 1992 - Music / Performing Arts - Director: Derek Bailey - Original Language: Italian - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Edita Gruberova, Giorgio Zancanaro, Neil Shicoff, Carlo Rizzi
Production Year: 1985 - Music / Performing Arts - Director: Peter Hall - Classification: Exempt - Starring: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Barry McCauley, Marie McLaughlin, Maria Ewing
Advantages: Callas at her best, stylish Alredo Kraus, Mario Sereni brilliant Disadvantages: Rough sound, better version on Pearl label
VERDI - LATRAVIATA - GHIONE EMI (LIVE RECORDING)
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LaTraviata is an opera about a socialite called Violetta who discovers love in the form of the tenor Alfredo who she originally rejects. They fall in love and live together. Alfredo's father visits her. Violetta is eventually persuaded to leave Alfredo so that his family name is not tarnished (threatening the future marriage of Alfredo's sister). Alfredo hates Violetta for this (he doesn't know of her promise with his father) and shames her in front of her friends. Violetta has TB and is dying. Alfredo comes to her and their love is rekindled just in time for her to die, the promise of future happiness coming to nothing.
This recording is very good. Callas is brilliant as Violetta, perhaps even better ...
Advantages: The drinking song, the melancholy oboes Disadvantages: Long - approx 2 hrs
LaTraviata
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave
Conductor: Sir Georg Solti
Orchestra: Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra
Performer: Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano): Violetta
Frank Lopardo (Tenor): Alfredo
Leo Nucci (Baritone): Gioggio Germont
Covent Garden Royal Opera House Chorus
Label: Decca
Released: July 1, 1995
Price: £25.99
Availability: At must good music shops
Giuseppe Verdi was born on October 1813 near Busseto in North Italy. Although Verdi composed in other mediums including sacred choral works, he is best known for his Operas. LaTraviata was composed in 1853. Translated as The woman gone astray, it was based on a play by Dumas (of The Three Muskateers fame). Set in Paris, it is an opera of true love.
Musical Synopsis
Act 1. The Parisian courtesan, Violetta, hosts a party in her ...
Advantages: The Performance Disadvantages: The Sound
EMI Callas Lisbon 1958 LaTraviata? AWFUL!!!
The performance is excellent, of course, but the transfer is one of the poorest that gramophone history has ever saw! This EMI release was made based on the tapes recorded via radio when the performance was broadcasted in 1958 by RDP (Radio Difusao Portuguesa - Portuguese Radio). The EXCELLENT news is that there is a brand new transfer of the EXACTLY same performance based not on those EMI tapes but by the master tapes owned by RDP (the original source, then). The difference is ABSOLUTELY HUGE! This new release made by the label "Pearl" using those tapes, sometimes makes you wonder if the performance was recorded in mono or stereo! I have both releases, the "EMI" and the "Pearl". Despite the excellent booklet included in EMI edition the Pearl Edition is far superior (specially in matters ...
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