Verdi: Otello
Alberto Erede
Label
Decca
Catalogue No.
4807188
Barcode
00028948071883
Format
2-CD
About

Although overshadowed by the more celebrated second recording of Otello that Mario del Monaco and Renata Tebaldi made with Karajan (1960), many feel this earlier (1954) recording features both protagonists in fresher voice, and Alberto Erede and his Santa Cecilia forces really pack a punch.

TRACK LISTING / ARTISTS

GIUSEPPE VERDI
Otello

Otello: Mario del Monaco, tenor
Desdemona: Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Cassio: Piero de Palma, tenor
Jago: Aldo Protti, baritone
Emilia: Luisa Ribacchi, mezzo-soprano
Roderigo: Angelo Mercuriali, tenor
Montano: Pier Luigi Latinucci, bass
Lodovico, Venetian envoy: Fernando Corena, bass
A herald: Dario Caselli, bass
Coro e orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma
Alberto Erede

Recording information

Recording Producers: Victor Olof, James Walker
Balance Engineers: Gil Went, Roy Wallace
Recording Location: Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy, July 1954

Reviews

‘Tebaldi has the most haunting pianissimo of any soprano in my time; and how she can manage it!’ … The recording has warmth, depth, fullness … Del Monaco’s enunciation is ringingly true … I find this lovely soprano [Tebaldi] an unfailingly wonderful Desdemona: such tenderness, such feeling, such glow and strength in sustaining the big lines of the great duets and the ensemble at the end of Act 3.’ Gramophone