Verdi Ernani

Synopsis

It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones; Renato Bruson sounds, like the sublime Verdian Baritone that he was at that time; Nicolai Ghiaurov proves again that he was one of the greatest "Verdi Basses"; Mirella Freni shows that there was more to her than just being Mimi and Susannah-in fact I can remember reading that at the time of the premiere of this production that there were fist fights (not unusual in La Scala's gallery) between Mirella's many fans--between those fans that just wanting her to continue singing the light lyric repertoire that they were use to her singing and those that felt she should and could sing the lyric-spinto repertoire which, of course, she proved that,indeed, she could (She's still singing more than twenty years later). This performance captures some of the best Verdi singers of the time doing dear ole wonderful Giuseppi proud.

Main Cast

Plácido Domingo

Ernani

Age : 83 | Popularity : 7%

Mirella Freni

Elvira

Age : 89 | Popularity : 5%

Renato Bruson

Don Carlo

Age : 88 | Popularity : 5%

Nicolai Ghiaurov

Don Ruy Gomez de Silva

Age : 74 | Popularity : 3%

Riccardo Muti

Conductor

Age : 82 | Popularity : 3%

Orchestra della Scala

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Original Music Composer	Giuseppe Verdi
Writing	Original Story	Victor Hugo
	Writer	Francesco Maria Piave
Directing	Director	Luca Ronconi Preben Montel
Department	Role	Name

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