TEATRO ALLA SCALA, MILANO 09 AUG 1956
STUDIO REMASTERED 2014
2CD 0825646340941 – DIGITAL
Verdi: Il trovatore
ORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO ALLA SCALA DI MILANO
HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Like Norma, the role of Leonora in Il trovatore demands both bel canto finesse and considerable vocal and dramatic weight, but Callas sang it only some 20 times. This recording – in which she, Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe di Stefano and Roland Panerai constitute a suitably impressive quartet of principals – marked her farewell to the complete role and also her final collaboration with Herbert von Karajan.
LEONORA: MARIA CALLAS
IL CONTE DI LUNA: ROLANDO PANERAI
AZUCENA: FEDORA BARBIERI
MANRICO: GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO
FERRANDO: NICOLA ZACCARIA
INES: LUISA VILLA
RUIZ/UN MESSO: RENATO ERCOLANI
UNO ZINGARO: GIULIO MAURI