Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete Opera recorded in 2001)
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete Opera recorded in 2001)
Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Thomas Hampson, Larissa Diadkova, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo / London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
[ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 20 May 2018
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"More and more I'm finding the real Italian in me," said British-born, American-trained Antonio Pappano shortly after making this recording of Il trovatore. With its complex plot, volcanic emotions and outpourings of melody, Verdi's fiery drama is often judged the quintessential Italian opera. Pappano conducts a cast that can rise to its thrilling challenges, with Roberto Alagna in the title role of Manrico, the troubadour, Thomas Hampson as his antagonist, Angela Gheorghiu as the object of both their affections and Larissa Diadkova as the opera's pivotal figure, Azucena, a woman haunted by the past.
"The overall feeling of a disturbed society and disturbed principals is admirably depicted in the alert conducting‚ with the LSO in its current form top of the class‚ Pappano's tempi instinctively the right ones - and‚ important this - the score given in its entirety‚ but with unwritten high notes admitted. Gheorghiu does virtually nothing wrong. Her delivery of the phrase in the Convent scene when she realises Manrico is both alive and has come to save her‚ is heartrendingly beautiful‚ the last act has real distinction‚ with the alternative high D flat near the end easily taken‚ and 'Tu vedrai' (with both verses) as supple and urgent as it should be. As she goes to her selfinflicted death‚ that ineffably lovely phrase of Leonora's is sung to perfection." Gramophone
