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Giuseppe Verdi (Artist), Carlos Kleiber (Artist), Ileana Cotrubas (Artist), Placido Domingo (Artist), Bayerisches Staatsorchester (Artist), Sherrill Milnes (Artist), Bruno Grella (Artist), Walter Gullino (Artist), Giovanni Foiani (Artist), Alfredo Giacomotti (Artist)
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listen  1. La traviata / Act 1 - PreludeBavarian State Orchestra 3:33$0.99 Buy Track
listen  2. La traviata / Act 1 - "Dell'invito trascorsa è già l'ora"Ileana Cotrubas 4:34$0.99 Buy Track
listen  3. La traviata / Act 1 - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici (Brindisi)Plácido Domingo 2:55$0.99 Buy Track
listen  4. La traviata / Act 1 - "Che è ciò?"Stefania Malagu 2:18$0.99 Buy Track
listen  5. La traviata / Act 1 - "Un dì felice, eterea"Plácido Domingo 3:06$0.99 Buy Track
listen  6. La traviata / Act 1 - "Ebben? che diavol fate?"Walter Gullino 1:12$0.45 Buy Track
listen  7. La traviata / Act 1 - "Si ridesta in ciel l'aurora"Stefania Malagu 1:38$0.45 Buy Track
listen  8. La traviata / Act 1 - "E strano!" - "Ah, fors'è lui"Ileana Cotrubas 3:37$0.99 Buy Track
listen  9. La traviata / Act 1 - "Follie! Delirio vano è questo!" - "Sempre libera"Ileana Cotrubas 4:23$0.99 Buy Track
listen10. La traviata / Act 2 - "Lunge da lei" - "De' miei bollenti spiriti"Plácido Domingo 3:33$0.99 Buy Track
listen11. La traviata / Act 2 - "Annina, donde vieni?" - "Oh mio rimorso!"Plácido Domingo 2:18$0.99 Buy Track
listen12. La traviata / Act 2 - "Alfredo?" "Per Parigi or or partiva"Ileana Cotrubas 3:18$0.99 Buy Track
listen13. La traviata / Act 2 - "Pura siccome un angelo"Sherrill Milnes 1:41$0.45 Buy Track
listen14. La traviata / Act 2 - "Non sapete quale affetto"Ileana Cotrubas 1:59$0.45 Buy Track
listen15. La traviata / Act 2 - "Un dì, quando le veneri"Sherrill Milnes 2:34$0.99 Buy Track
listen16. La traviata / Act 2 - "Ah! Dite alla giovine"Ileana Cotrubas 4:06$0.99 Buy Track
listen17. La traviata / Act 2 - "Imponete" "Non amarlo ditegli"Ileana Cotrubas 4:18$0.99 Buy Track
listen18. La traviata / Act 2 - "Dammi tu forza, o cielo!"Ileana Cotrubas 1:43$0.45 Buy Track
listen19. La traviata / Act 2 - "Che fai?" "Nulla"Plácido Domingo 2:05$0.99 Buy Track
listen20. La traviata / Act 2 - "Ah, vive sol quel core"Plácido Domingo 2:12$0.99 Buy Track
listen21. La traviata / Act 2 - "Di Provenza il mar, il suol"Sherrill Milnes 4:00$0.99 Buy Track
listen22. La traviata / Act 2 - "Né rispondi d'un padre all'affetto?" - "No, non udrai rimproveri"Sherrill Milnes 2:41$0.99 Buy Track


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listen  1. La traviata / Act 2 - "Avrem lieta di maschere la notte"Stefania Malagu 1:01$0.45 Buy Track
listen  2. La traviata / Act 2 - "Noi siamo zingarelle"Stefania Malagu 2:45$0.99 Buy Track
listen  3. La traviata / Act 2 - "Di Madride noi siam mattadori"Walter Gullino 2:32$0.99 Buy Track
listen  4. La traviata / Act 2 - "Alfredo! Voi!"Plácido Domingo 3:55$0.99 Buy Track
listen  5. La traviata / Act 2 - "Invitato a qui seguirmi"Stefania Malagu 2:28$0.99 Buy Track
listen  6. La traviata / Act 2 - "Ogni suo aver tal femmina"Plácido Domingo 1:30$0.45 Buy Track
listen  7. La traviata / Act 2 - "Di sprezzo degno se stesso rende"Sherrill Milnes 1:48$0.45 Buy Track
listen  8. La traviata / Act 2 - "Alfredo, Alfredo, di questo core"Ileana Cotrubas 4:04$0.99 Buy Track
listen  9. La traviata / Act 3 - PreludeBavarian State Orchestra 3:36$0.99 Buy Track
listen10. La traviata / Act 3 - "Annina?" "Comandate?"Ileana Cotrubas 3:54$0.99 Buy Track
listen11. La traviata / Act 3 - "Tenesta la promessa" - "Attendo, né a me giungon mai" - "Addio del passato"Ileana Cotrubas 3:58$0.99 Buy Track
listen12. La traviata / Act 3 - "Largo a quadrupede"Bavarian State Orchestra0:44$0.45 Buy Track
listen13. La traviata / Act 3 - Signora...Che t'accadde...Parigi, o caraHelena Jungwirth 4:46$0.99 Buy Track
listen14. La traviata / Act 3 - "Ah, non più!" - "Ah! Gran Dio! Morir sì giovine"Ileana Cotrubas 3:00$0.99 Buy Track
listen15. La traviata / Act 3 - "Ah, Violetta!" "Voi? Signor?"Sherrill Milnes 1:43$0.45 Buy Track
listen16. La traviata / Act 3 - "Prendi, quest'è l'immagine"Ileana Cotrubas 3:52$0.99 Buy Track


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Product Details

  • Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
  • SPARS Code: ADD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • ASIN: B000001G5W
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,637 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)


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The best Traviata on disc? If not, it's within hailing distance. No true Verdian would want to be without Callas's 1955 live recording, and it's hard not to love those starring Moffo, Caballe, Scotto, Sutherland, and de los Angeles among others. But this set offers the best all-round combination of excellent sound, fine singing, and dynamic conducting. Ileana Cotrubas is a wonderfully spontaneous Violetta, conveying the passion and vulnerability of the character. Only Callas among her starry rivals on disc can match Cotrubas's emotional and vocal mastery here. Domingo sings with ardor, and Milnes uses his beautiful voice to good effect as Germont. But it's Carlos Kleiber's show, and that enigmatic conductor leads the most energetic Traviata since Toscanini. Tempos are fast, but his sense of theatricality is unerring--this is one of those studio recordings that captures the sense of being at the opera house listening to one of those rare performances when everything clicks. --Dan Davis

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best "Traviata", November 23, 1999
By Laura Fleming (East Providence, RI United States) - See all my reviews
Ileana Cotrubas will break your heart. Her sweet, silvery voice makes a delicate and touching Violetta. She sings a very sparkling and lovely "Sempre libera." Her voice is beautiful--far lovelier than Maria Callas's. And her interpretation of the role will leave you in tears, especially in her duets with Sherill Milnes' incomparable Germont. And in her "Addio del passato." Listen to the emotion in her voice when she reads Alfredo's letter....

Placido Domingo is the perfect Alfredo with his warm, romantic tenor voice.

Don't miss this one. 1000 stars!

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39 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest recording of Verdi's La traviata, March 11, 2000
By Daniel Reed Hanson (Atwater, California) - See all my reviews
I am here to say that if you're looking to buy the best recording, this is the one. I have heard several Violettas but this is the best one, and the professional opera critics will agree with me on this one. I've listen to Maria Callas in her Portugal performance with Kraus (in which her voiced seemed strained), which is pretty good, but you can heard the audience thoughout the entire recording, plus, the recording isn't in stereo and isn't conducted as good as this one. Sutherland does a great job and jumps though the part with great easy, however, there is no "pathos" or great acting in the voice. Victoria de los Angeles can't reach some on the high notes (especially at the end of "Sempre libera") and has a really strained voice in some parts. Ileana Cotrubas sings though the hard parts very nicely with great emotion, unlike a lot of sopranos. Domingo gives a great Alfredo along with Milnes as Germont. The orchestra and the conducting are superb. There is a good balance with the choir as well. Therefore, this IS the greatest recording for any opera beginner's collection.
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A puccinian La Traviata, September 3, 2000
It seems everyone has an opinion on Cotrubas as Violetta, so I will give mine. I heard her sing the role back in 1986 at the Vienna State Opera, and she was a small scale, vulnerable Violetta. I have always felt that Puccini' s women are pathetic, while Verdi's are "heroic". Her Violetta seem doomed from the very beginning, it was obvious this Violetta was a loser. She carried the 3 difficult voices of the role with aplomb, but somehow she didn't seem to live the role inside-out. Her conductor in Vienna was Michel Plasson, with whom she seemed to have a much better rapport than with Carlos Kleiber. Kleiber fils conducts a white-hot very dramatic La Traviata, but Cotrubas is not with him. She is too fragile for his view, I think Julia Varady would have fit much better in this recording. Domingo is fine as Alfredo, though he makes a weird sound at the end of the cabaletta. Milnes is not a natural Germont, Giorgio Zancanaro is much, much better either with Gruberova (TELDEC) or Devia (Bongiovanni). But La Traviata stands or falls on its heroine. No finer stereo or even studio recording exists than DG previous recording with Renata Scotto, who lives Violetta like no other soprano since Maria Callas. And since La Divina didn't have luck recording this opera, the Scotto version is a mandatory purchase.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best overall
I have to agree with the reviews here--this is the best all-around recording of La Traviata that I've found. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jared B.

4.0 out of 5 stars Warmth and power.....
La Traviata is among my favorites, but initially I thought I'd made a mistake getting this one. The 2nd act reassured me. Cotrubas and Milnes are outstanding together! Read more
Published 17 months ago by geobabe54

5.0 out of 5 stars El despertar de los sentidos
Efectivamente para quienes gustan y confían en el talento del maestro Keliber, no se equivocarán con esta producción, ya que la intensidad, el tiempo y la forma han sido cuidados... Read more
Published on October 17, 2007 by Cristian Quilodran

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime!
Easily one of the best "La Traviata" recordings EVER if not THE best. A perfect cast, and everything about this recording is simply beautiful in every way. Read more
Published on September 24, 2006 by H. Buehler

3.0 out of 5 stars The Best Studio Traviata?
I have to confess that the only reason why I bought this recording was because of Kleiber. I never cared for Cotrubas's voice because I always found it nasal and not very... Read more
Published on November 6, 2005 by Marc Musnick

5.0 out of 5 stars Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas · Domingo · Milnes · Bayerisches Staatsorchester · Carlos Kleiber
There are just no words that explain how the music over whelms the soul and has the body swaying whilst the voice attempts to reach the various notes of these accomplised artists... Read more
Published on October 25, 2005 by Sandy Hegg

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspired performance
The conductor and lead singers bring out the best in their performance of this great Verdi opera. A great and inspired rendition.
Published on October 25, 2005 by Carl I. Mehl

5.0 out of 5 stars An opera from a play from a then celebrated real life story
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Published on September 23, 2005 by Craig Matteson

5.0 out of 5 stars Triumphant Traviata
This is a consummate performance by all the singers and Kleiber's conducting is elegant and lyrical. Read more
Published on September 2, 2005 by The Jaf

5.0 out of 5 stars The most sumptuous studio recording of Traviata
I have several Traviatas in my collection, it being one of my favorite operas, and being a Callas fan, I would often resort to the famous live recordings of 1955 and 1958 in order... Read more
Published on May 6, 2005 by The Cultural Observer

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