Customer Reviews

Verdi: Falstaff

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Stabile was Falstaff for many years. This performance catches him rather late and beauty of voice was never his. But the value of the words and the characterization give evidence of his long experience in the part.

Tebaldi is wonderful as Alice and the rest of the cast is first-rate. DeSabata is an inspiring conductor. The sound is only OK, but this is very much worth it, especially at this price.

This is a recording of very fine live performance at La Scala in either 1951 or 1952. It has an "all star" cast, with the finest Falstaff of our times, the inimitable Mariano Stabile. Unfortunately the sound is not good - probably a four or five on a scale of ten.

For a full review of the performance (in what I believe is the best remastered sound) see Verdi: Falstaff.

This sounds like it was taped with one microphone at a long distance from the stage. Granted, it's a historic performance, but you can barely distinguish individual voices or instruments. They all blur together into a vague, distant murmur.