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(More customer reviews)It is a large-scale production.
The camera focuses at the beginning on the audiance to illustrate how many people are there.
It is open-air and still a very good sound quality.
Perhaps due to the singers.
The cast is very strong, in the virtuosic aspects:
Bonisolli does not posses the prettiest of voices, but his technique is electrifying, and I enjoyed his Manrico very much.
Zancanaro has a great voice; I have him also singing in Butterfly and Don Carlo and he is terrific.
Plowright sings and acts well, although she missed the high C at the end of act one (Bonisolli backed her up).
What is special about this dvd is having Fiorenza Cossotto.
Yes, there are many available recordings of her in that role, but this is her last (as far as I'm aware of).
She is still in full control of the range and dynamics - she hits the high B flat with no difficulty.
Plus, her experinece as Azucena is vast and it is shown.
Her quality of voice is less refined than it used to be - most apparent is the heavy vibrato, but that fits the part.
She has always sounded too high, and she still does, but at least she sounds old ;)
The conducting is no more than conventional, but it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Buy this for Cossotto's most mature Azucena!
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