GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901)

 

I Masnadieri

opera in 4 acts

 

Artists

Ruggero Raimondi Massimiliano

Carlo Bergonzi Carlo

Piero Cappuccilli Francesco

Montserrat Caballé Amalia

John Sandor Arminio

Maurizio Mazzieri Moser

William Elvin Rolla

Ambrosian Singers

New Philharmonia Orchestra / Lamberto Gardelli

 

I masnadieri (The Brigands) was composed between 1846-47 to a commission for an opera for London and it was first given at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London, in Juky 1847; it was first seen in Italy in February 1848 nat the Teatro Apollo in Rome.

 

"As this excellent Philips recording makes plain, the long neglect of I Masnadieri is totally undeserved ... With Gardelli as ever an urgently sympathetic Verdian, and a team of four excellent principals, splendidly recorded, the set can be warmly welcomed."

The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs

 

 

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