1914–2005 Italian conductor Giulini first conducted at La Scala, Milan in 1952, and was principal conductor 1953–56. He conducted Verdi’s Falstaff at the Edinburgh Festival in 1955 and Don Carlos at Covent Garden in 1958. He returned to Covent Garden for Il barbiere di Siviglia (1960), Il trovatore (1964) and La traviata (1967), but shortly after abandoned opera until ...
happened they announce their plans for the future, and recite the moral – that evildoers come to a sticky end. Recommended Recording: Don Giovanni, Philharmonia Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; EMI Classics CDS 7 47260 8; Soloists: Joan Sutherland (Donna Anna), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio), Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Giuseppe Taddei ...
He opens the sack to reveal his dying daughter, who begs forgiveness. Rigoletto cries that Monterone’s curse has been fulfilled. Recommended Recording: Rigoletto, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestr; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon 415 288-2GH2; Soloists: Ileana Cotrubas (Gilda), Elena Obraztsova (Maddalena), Plácido Domingo (Duke), Piero Cappuccilli (Rigoletto), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Sparafucile), Kurt Moll (Monterone) Personalities | Giuseppe Verdi | ...
1914–93 Bulgarian bass Christoff made his debut in Italy in La bohème (1946). He was most famous as Boris Godunov in the Rimsky-Korsakov version of the Mussorgsky opera. He made his US debut in San Francisco in 1956 in the same role. His Verdi roles included Philip II in the Giulini-Visconti Don Carlos at Covent Garden in 1958, and as ...
1924–2014 Italian tenor Bergonzi studied as a baritone, singing Rossini’s Figaro in Lecce in 1948 before retraining as a tenor. His second debut was as Giordano’s Andrea Chénier in 1951. He sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera 1956–88. At Covent Garden, where he made his debut in 1962, he sang many roles including Verdi’s Alvaro and Manrico (conducted ...
Russian pianist A child prodigy, he gave his first solo recital at the age of 10 and as a teenager worked with Karajan, later collaborating with Solti, Giulini, Abbado, Maazel and Ashkenazy among conductors, and with Martha Argerich, Isaac Stern and Joshua Bell in chamber music. But it is for solo performances of the ...
b. 1926 Canadian tenor Vickers joined the Covent Garden company in 1957, singing Verdi’s Gustavus and Berlioz’s Aeneas. In 1958 he sang the title-role in the Giulini-Visconti production of Don Carlos, and Siegmund at Bayreuth, followed by Jason in Cherubini’s Medea in Dallas. He sang Siegmund and three other roles in Vienna in 1959. He made his Metropolitan ...
operas (by Borodin, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky), as well as symphonies by Mahler, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Carlo Maria Giulini | Contemporary | Classical ...
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