Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera / Luciano Pavarotti, Piero Cappuccilli, Gabriele Lechner, Ludmila Schemtschuk, Magda Nador, Georg Tichy, Franco de Grandis (live, Vienna State Opera, 1986) Luciano Pavarotti's repertoire comprised only a few roles, but his performances and recordings of them wrote and rewrote history. This was the case in 1970 as Nemorino (in L'elisir d'amore) alongside Joan Sutherland and in 1972 as Rodolfo (in La BohÃ¨me) under Karajan, with Mirella Freni als MimÃ. But while Pavarotti's Riccardo (Gustavo III) in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in his studio recording of 1983 is given pride of place because of it's surface brilliance (not least thanks to Georg Solti on the podium), in his live TV broadcast of the same role three years later under Claudio Abbado he offers a striking sense of musical and dramatic immediacy. In this recording of that broadcast from the Vienna State Opera, we can hear a performance both highly nuanced and possessed of an immense radiance, from his very first "Amici mei" to his touching death scene.

Tracklist:

Preludio
Posa in Pace
Amici Miei
Il Cenno Mio
Alla Vita Che T'arride
Il Primo Giudice
Zitti... L'incanto Non DÃ¨ssi Turbare - Re Dell'abisso
Arrivo Il Primo!
Su Fatemi Largo 1
Che V'agita CosÃ¬? 1
Su, Profetessa - Di' Tu Se Fidele 1
Chi Voi Siate 1
Finisci Il Vaticino 1
Preludio 1
Ecco L'orrido Campo 1
Teco Io Sto 1
AhimÃ¨! S'appressa Aclun! 1
Seguitemi! (Mio Dio!) 1
A Tal Colpa E Nulla Il Pianto 2
MorrÃ², Ma Prima in Grazia 2
Alzati; la Tuo Figlio... Eri Tu Che Macchiavi Quell'anima 2
Siam Soli. Udite 2
Il Messaggio Entri 2
Forse la Soglia Attinse - Ma Se M'E Forza Perderti 2
Ah! Dessa E LA... SI, Rivederti, Amelia 2
Ella E Pura

UPC: 4011790907222
Label: Orfeo
Release Date: 4.8.16
Format: CD

G Verdi / Pavarotti,Luciano / Tichy,Georg - Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (CD)