La forza del destino discography

This is a partial discography of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La forza del destino.

1862 original version

Year Cast
(Leonora, Alvaro,
Carlo, Preziosilla,
Fra Melitone,
Padre Guardiano)
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label[1]
1981 Martina Arroyo
Kenneth Collins
Peter Glossop
Janet Coster
Derek Hammond-Stroud
Don Garrard
John Matheson
BBC Concert Orchestra
BBC chorus
(recorded at Promenade Concert on 8 August)
CD: Opera Rara
Cat: ORCV 304
1995 Galina Gorchakova
Gegam Grigorian
Nikolai Putilin
Olga Borodina
Georgy Zastavny
Mikail Kit
Valery Gergiev
Mariinsky Theatre orchestra & chorus
CD: Phillips
Cat: 446 951-2
1998 Galina Gorchakova
Gegam Grigorian
Nikolai Putilin
Marianna Tarasova
Georgy Zastavny
Sergei Alexaschkin
Valery Gergiev
Mariinsky Theatre orchestra & chorus
Video DVD: Arthaus Musik
Cat: 100.078

1869 revised version

Year Cast
(Leonora, Alvaro,
Carlo, Preziosilla,
Fra Melitone,
Padre Guardiano)
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label[1]
1941 Maria Caniglia
Galliano Masini
Carlo Tagliabue
Ebe Stignani
Saturno Meletti
Tancredi Pasero
Gino Marinuzzi
Orchestra e Coro dell'EIAR di Torino
CD: Warner-Fonit
Cat: 8573 82652-5
1953 Renata Tebaldi
Mario Del Monaco
Aldo Protti
Fedora Barbieri
Renato Capecchi
Cesare Siepi
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Teatro Comunale di Firenze Orchestra and Chorus
CD: Cetra Records
1954 Maria Callas
Richard Tucker
Carlo Tagliabue
Elena Nicolai
Renato Capecchi
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Tulio Serafin
Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus
CD: EMI
Cat: 5 56323-2
1955 Renata Tebaldi
Mario Del Monaco
Ettore Bastianini
Giulietta Simionato
Fernando Corena
Cesare Siepi
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
CD: Decca Records
Cat: 475 8681
1956 Renata Tebaldi
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Giangiacomo Guelfi
Fedora Barbieri
Melchiorre Luise
Giulio Neri
Gabriele Santini
Teatro Comunale di Firenze Orchestra and Chorus
CD: Myto Historical
1958 Renata Tebaldi
Franco Corelli
Ettore Bastianini
Oralia Domínguez
Renato Capecchi
Boris Christoff
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Teatro di San Carlo orchestra & chorus
(recorded on 15 March)
DVD: Hardy Classic
Cat: HCA 6014
1962 Gré Brouwenstijn
Jan Peerce
John Shaw
Rena Garazioti
Renato Capecchi
Georg Littasy
Alberto Erede
Dutch National Opera orchestra & chorus
(recorded on 5 July)
CD: Osteria
Cat: OS-1002
1964 Leontyne Price
Richard Tucker
Robert Merrill
Shirley Verrett
Ezio Flagello
Giorgio Tozzi
Thomas Schippers
RCA Italiana Orchestra & chorus
CD: RCA Victor
Cat: GD 87971
1966 Elena Souliotis
Carlo Menippo
Mario Sereni
Franca Mattiucci
Alfredo Mariotti
Ivo Vinco
Alessandro Maddalena
Angela Rocco
Pasquale de Angelis
Teatro di San Carlo orchestra & chorus
CD: Hardy Classic
Cat: 6005-2
1969 Martina Arroyo
Carlo Bergonzi
Piero Cappuccilli
Bianca Maria Casoni
Geraint Evans
Ruggero Raimondi
Lamberto Gardelli
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers
CD: EMI
Cat: CMS 5 67124-2
1976 Leontyne Price
Plácido Domingo
Sherrill Milnes
Fiorenza Cossotto
Gabriel Bacquier
Bonaldo Giaiotti
James Levine
London Symphony Orchestra
John Alldis Choir
CD: RCA Red Seal
Cat: 74321 39502 2
1978 Liljana Molnar-Talajic
Veriano Luchetti
Renato Bruson
Franca Mattiucci
Walter Monachesi
Bonaldo Giaiotti
Maurizio Arena
Verona Arena orchestra & chorus
CD: Reel tape
Cat: 3929
1979 Leontyne Price
Veriano Luchetti
Guillermo Sarabia
Judith Forst
Giuseppe Taddei
Martti Talvela
David Cumberland
Gwendolyn Jones
Kurt Herbert Adler
San Francisco Opera orchestra & chorus
CD: Reel Tape
Cat: 5398
1980 Montserrat Caballé
Luciano Pavarotti
Matteo Manuguerra
Elena Obraztsova
José van Dam
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Antal Doráti
National Philharmonic Orchestra
London Opera Chorus
CD: Decca
Cat: 478 8391
1984 Leontyne Price
Giuseppe Giacomini
Leo Nucci
Isola Jones
Enrico Fissore
Bonaldo Giaiotti
James Levine
Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus
(recorded live March 24; staged by John Dexter)
SD video:
Met Opera on Demand[2][3]
1985 Rosalind Plowright
José Carreras
Renato Bruson
Agnes Baltsa
Juan Pons
Paata Burchuladze
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 477 5621
1986 Mirella Freni
Plácido Domingo
Giorgio Zancanaro
Dolora Zajick
Sesto Bruscantini
Paul Plishka
Riccardo Muti
Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: CDS 7 47485-8
1992 Andrea Gruber
Giuseppe Giacomini
Eduard Tumagian
Ildikó Komlósi
Renato Capecchi
László Polgár
Franco Federici
Piera Puglisi
Spiros Argiris
Teatro Massimo Bellini orchestra & chorus
CD: House of Opera
Cat: 690
2006 Susanna Branchini
Renzo Zulian
Marco Di Felice
Paolo Battaglia
Paolo Rumetz
Lukas Karytinos
Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta
Teatro Sociale di Rovigo chorus
DVD: Dynamic
Cat: 33512
2013 Anja Harteros
Jonas Kaufmann
Ludovic Tézier
Nadia Krasteva
Vitalij Kowaljow
Asher Fisch
Bayerische Staatsoper orchestra & chorus
DVD: Sony Classical
Cat: 88875160649

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