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Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
from: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028947582786
Label: Decca
Manufacturer: Decca
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Decca
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Studio: Decca
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - What a cast !!!
The recent released of this Ballo from 1961 is very welcome indeed and
offers many vocal and musical rewards. What can one say about Carlo Ber-
gonzi except that he is perfect - singing beautifully and with rare ele-
gance and intelligence. Cornell MacNeil - perhaps not the most imagina-
tive of singer - has a glorious voice at his disposal and cannot help but
impress. The great Wagnerian soprano Birgit Nilsson has made a few succes-
ful recordings of italian ... Read More
Rating: - Wow! It's like dying and going to Heaven!
What to say....."AT LAST!"
Yes, at last! Finally, after all these years (I guess it took the passing of Ms Nilsson and many inquiries from me to Decca/Philips/Universal Classics, pleading for it), finally it is available for our hot little hands again.
I love this recording. Another of my "growing-up" opera recordings, so it's like seeing an old friend from my childhood again! Is this the best "un Ballo"...probably not, but it certainly ranks up there. I loved these old singers, ... Read More
Rating:  - How Italian should 'Un Ballo' be? This one isn't very
In terms of recording and vocal polish, this 1962 Un Ballo from Rome is exemplary. Bergonzi and Nilsson were world-class voices, and the role of Amerlia suited Nilsson almost as well as Aida. For power, accuracy, ad vocal gleam she has no peers. Yet I always hear her in the shadow of Callas and Tebaldi, who gave us tragic, poingnant Amelias in the true Italian style. If that doesn't matter so much to you, then Nilsson is ealy beyond praise. She displays real heart and is never steely.
In ... Read More
Rating: - ARGUABLY THE BEST "BALLO" EVER RECORDED
Deccca is to be congratulated and commended for finally reissuing this superb recording long absent from the catalogue. Georg Solti's way with the weightier Verdi operas is dramatic, compelling, and totally absorbing. He infuses the power of Wagner and Strauss into his orchestration, and it gives this opera an orchestral grandeur that is far less evident on other recordings. He's directing a cast who are themselves legendary. Carlo Bergonzi, the epitome of Italian lyricism, is heard here in his ... Read More
Rating: - Grazia Decca! Bravo Bergonzi!
Thanks and praise to Decca for finally making this Ballo available on CD. Riccardo was one of Carlo Bergonzi's greatest roles -- right up there with Radames, Alfredo, Alvaro, Edgardo, and Nemorino. In addition to this Decca/Solti offering, which is Bergonzi's first commercial recording of Ballo, there is his second commercial recording a few years later for RCA with L. Price, Grist, Verrett, and Merrill under Leinsdorf. There are also pirate CDs of a live performance with Leyla Gencer, as well as ... Read More
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