La traviata – the ultimate opera of love and loss – is a great favourite of opera-goers and here Eloquence releases Joan Sutherland’s first recording of La Traviata, complete on 2CDs. It is for many, her greatest recorded portrayal of the doomed heroine Violetta. Her Alfredo is the ‘simply supreme’ (Gramophone) Carlo Bergonzi and Sir John Pritchard conducts a ‘most persuasive, well-balanced and well-timed account’ (Gramophone) of this magnificent opera.
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La traviata
Violetta Valéry: Joan Sutherland
Flora Bervoix: Miti Truccato Pace
Annina: Dora Carral
Alfredo Germont: Carlo Bergonzi
Giorgio Germont: Robert Merrill
Gastone: Piero de Palma
Barone Douphol: Paolo Pedani,
Marchese d’Obigny: Silvio Maionica
Dottore Grenvil: Giovanni Foiani,
Giuseppe: Angelo Mercuriali
Domestico di Flora: Tenero Meridionale
Commissionario: Mario Frosini
Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Sir John Pritchard
Recording Producer: Christopher Raeburn
Balance Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson
Recording Location: Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy, November 1962