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Rigoletto - Ettore Bastianini
Gilda - Renata Scotto
Duca di Mantova - Alfredo Kraus
Sparafucile - Ivo Vinco
Maddalena - Fiorenza Cossotto
Giovanna - Clara Foti
Monterone - Silvio Maionica
Marullo - Virgilio Carbonari
Borsa - Enzo Guagni
Conte di Ceprano - Giuseppe Morresi
Contessa di Ceprano - Clara Foti
Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence)
Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
Recorded in the Teatro della Pergola, Florence, during July 1960 by Dischi Ricordi, engineering by Mercury Records
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Rigoletto - Ettore Bastianini
Gilda - Renata Scotto
Duca di Mantova - Alfredo Kraus
Sparafucile - Ivo Vinco
Maddalena - Fiorenza Cossotto
Giovanna - Clara Foti
Monterone - Silvio Maionica
Marullo - Virgilio Carbonari
Borsa - Enzo Guagni
Conte di Ceprano - Giuseppe Morresi
Contessa di Ceprano - Clara Foti
Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence)
Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
Recorded in the Teatro della Pergola, Florence, during July 1960 by Dischi Ricordi, engineering by Mercury Records
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Rigoletto - Ettore Bastianini
Gilda - Renata Scotto
Duca di Mantova - Alfredo Kraus
Sparafucile - Ivo Vinco
Maddalena - Fiorenza Cossotto
Giovanna - Clara Foti
Monterone - Silvio Maionica
Marullo - Virgilio Carbonari
Borsa - Enzo Guagni
Conte di Ceprano - Giuseppe Morresi
Contessa di Ceprano - Clara Foti
Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence)
Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
Recorded in the Teatro della Pergola, Florence, during July 1960 by Dischi Ricordi, engineering by Mercury Records
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CRQ 580 HOMAGE TO RENATA SCOTTO: VERDI: RIGOLETTO / GAVAZZENI, FLORENCE 1960, THE LEGENDARY RICORDI EDITION, VOL. 1
Track 1: Verdi: Rigoletto: Act 1 part 1: Prelude, introduction and ballad Questa o quella (Duke) - Duet Quel vecchio maledivami (Rigoletto and Sparafucile)
Track 2: Verdi: Rigoletto: Act 1 part 2: Scene and duet 'Figlia !...Mio padre!...(Gilda and Rigoletto) - Scene and duet: Signor ne principe io lo vorre (Gilda and Duke)
Track 3: Verdi: Rigoletto: Act 1 part 3: Scene and aria: Caro nome (Gilda) - Scene and final chorus 1: Zitti, zitti moviamo a vendetta
Rigoletto - Ettore Bastianini
Gilda - Renata Scotto
Duca di Mantova - Alfredo Kraus
Sparafucile - Ivo Vinco
Maddalena - Fiorenza Cossotto
Giovanna - Clara Foti
Monterone - Silvio Maionica
Marullo - Virgilio Carbonari
Borsa - Enzo Guagni
Conte di Ceprano - Giuseppe Morresi
Contessa di Ceprano - Clara Foti
Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence)
Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
Recorded in the Teatro della Pergola, Florence, during July 1960 by Dischi Ricordi, engineering by Mercury Records
released September 4, 2023
The initiator of this superb recording of Rigoletto was Nanni Ricordi, of the music publishers, Ricordi, who had heard the same cast during the previous year in a production given at the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, conducted by Franco Mannino. The location of the recording, the Teatro della Pergola, Florence, like Ricordi had very close associations with the composer Verdi dating back to the middle of the nineteenth century. The cast had similar close associations with each other. The baritone Bastianini had a villa close to Florence where in the stifling heat of July rehearsals took place. Alfredo Kraus had counselled Renata Scotto when a few years previously she had suffered a vocal crisis, and Fiorenza Cossotto and Ivo Vinco were married to each other. All held the conductor Gianandrea Gavazzeni in the highest respect as an outstanding example of the Italian opera maestro. Ricordi's master-stroke was to engage as the recording team team the duo Wilma Cozart and Robert Fine, the backbone of Mercury Records, who delivered a superb example of location engineering.
The resulting recording stands as a fitting tribute to the artistry of the soprano Renata Scotto, who died aged 89 on 16 August 2023.
A biography of the late Renata Scotto may be found at:
www.naxos.com/Bio/Person/Renata_Scotto/14426
A biography of Gianandrea Gavazzeni may be found at:
www.naxos.com/Bio/Person/Gianandrea_Gavazzeni/32092
An extensive programme note for Rigoletto may be found at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoletto
CRQ 580 and CRQ 581 - Verdi: Rigoletto, the Ricordi Edition of 1960 - are each priced at £4 to allow the complete set to be purchased for the same price as a single album: £8.
