La traviata ; Bonus: Maria Callas sings "La traviata" in 5 famous performances / Giuseppe Verdi.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Contributor:

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876, librettist.

Freni, Mirella, 1935-2020, performer.

Righetti, Romana, performer.

Cioni, Renato, performer.

Sereni, Mario, performer.

Callas, Maria, 1923-1977, performer.

Di Stefano, Giuseppe, 1921-2008, performer.

Karajan, Herbert von, conductor.

Mugnaï, Umberto, conductor.

Santini, Gabriele, 1886-1964, conductor.

Giulini, Carlo Maria, conductor.

Ghione, Franco, conductor.

Rescigno, Nicola, conductor.

Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895.

Teatro alla Scala, performer.

Teatro de Bellas Artes (Mexico City, Mexico), performer.

Radiotelevisione italiana. Orchestra sinfonica di Torino, performer.

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, performer.

Royal Opera House (London, England), performer.

Series:

Opera.

Opera

Standardized Title:

Traviata

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Operas--Excerpts.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Operas.

Excerpts.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[England?] : Legend, [1994]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Participant:

In the opera: Mirella Freni ; Romana Righetti ; Renato Cioni ; Mario Sereni ; other soloists ; Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor. In the excerpt performances: Maria Callas, soprano ; Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor, [Orchestra del] Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Umberto Mugnai, conductor (1st) ; Francesco Albanese, tenor, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino dela Rai Torino, Gabriele Santini, conductor (2nd) ; Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor (3rd) ; Alfredo Kraus, tenor, S. Carols Opera House, Lisbon [Teatro Nacional de São Carlos di Lisbona], Franco Ghione, conductor (4th) ; Cesare Valletti, tenor, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Nicola Rescigno, conductor (5th).

Notes:

Legend: LGD 125--LGD 126.

Opera, and 5 performances of the same excerpt (Follie! follie! delirio vano è questo...Sempre libera) from the same opera.

Sung in Italian.

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

Based on the play La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas.

The opera recorded in Milan in 1964. The excerpts recorded in Mexico City, 1952 (1st), Turin, 1953 (2nd), Milan, 1955 (3rd), Lisbon, 1958 (4th), and London, 1958 (5th).

Compact discs.

Analog recordings.

Related Work:

Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895. Dame aux camélias (Play).

Contains:

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Traviata. Sempre libera

OCLC:

55118577

Publisher Number:

LGD 125 Legend

LGD 126 Legend