Highlights from Solti’s thrilling reading of Aida, recorded in July 1961. With four of the leading Verdi singers of the 1960s and plenty of Soltian fire in the belly, this disc of highlights includes more than 71 minutes of music, featuring all the great arias and scenes – ‘Celeste Aida’, the ‘Triumphal March’ and the final love duet when Aida and Radames are entombed alive.
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Aida (highlights)
Se quel guerrier io fossi! … Celeste Aida
Or di Vulcano
Ritorna vincitor!
Gloria all’Egitto
Grand March & Ballet
Vieni, o guerriero vindice
Qui Radames vr4a … O patria mia
Ciel! mio padre
Gia i Sacerdoti adunansi
Ohime! … morir mi sento
Radames! Radames! Radames! Tu rivelasti
Presago il core della tua condonna
O terra, addio
Plinio Clabassi
Rita Gorr
Leontyne Price
Jon Vickers
Giorgio Tozzi
Robert Merrill
Coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Georg Solti
Recording producer: Richard Mohr
Recording engineer: Lewis Layton, Rene Boux
Recording location: Opera House, Rome, Italy, July 1961