Fiori: Giuseppe Verdi ~ I Vespri Siciliani

 

Duchess Elena
Arrigo
Guido di Monforte
Giovanni da Procida
Danieli
Ninetta
Roberto
Tebaldo
Lord of Bethune
Count Vaudemont
Manfredo

Montserrat Cabbalé
Nicolai Gedda
Sherrill Milnes
Justino Diaz
Douglas Ahlstedt
Cynthia Munzer
Andrij Dobriansky
Nico Castei
Robert Goodloe
Edmond Karlsrud
Paul Franke


Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York

Conductor James Levine

New York, Metropolitan Opera, March 9, 1974


A recording many of you will know, but hardly with the timbre that’s being offered now. It may feel as if you’re hearing it for the first time. A further recommendation is unnecessary.