LoginVerdi: Il Trovatore
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With an all-star lineup of experienced Verdians in this 1970 recording, one can't go wrong. But there are other recordings in which one can go more right. Compared to her Trovatore on RCA only 11 years before, Leontyne Price seems self-consciously grand, her plush voice sailing through the opera like visiting royalty and actually growing labored under the strain of sustaining such an imperial manner. Fiorenza Cossotto's slightly shrill, somewhat scary mezzo is at home in playing the witch Azucena even if more vocal weight would be ideal. Plácido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes are customary adept Verdians, though conductor Zubin Me
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Manufacturer: RCA
Release date: 28 July 1998
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0743213950426 UPC: 743213950426
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Release date: 28 July 1998
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0743213950426 UPC: 743213950426
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