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Verdi: Rigoletto [Enhanced] [Original recording remastered]

~ Robert Kerns (Baritone), Robert Merrill (Baritone), David Ward (Bass), Enzo Titta (Bass), Ezio Flagello (Bass), et al.
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  • Orchestra: RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra
  • Conductor: Georg Solti
  • Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
  • Audio CD (5 Dec 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
  • Label: RCA Red Seal
  • ASIN: B000BBOU2W
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 218,732 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A strong contender in a crowded field, 2 Mar 2009
By Ralph Moore (Bishop's Stortford, UK) - See all my reviews
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"Rigoletto" has been well served on disc; you can go right back to the 1950 RCA Victor set with Leonard Warren, or the 1954 Cetra set with Taddei (see my review) and be very satisfied both with the sound and the superlative performances. I do not find that more recent recordings reach that standard and do not particularly rate the DG version conducted by Giulini; as much as I admire the artists in other things, that set seems to me to lack the edge and theatricality of earlier recordings such as this one - and the voices are simply not as exciting. You certainly get plenty of excitement here, with Merrill turning a performance just as stirring vocally and perhaps even better acted than his earlier Perlea set with Bjorling. He is in tremendous form, that great, bronze voice caressing Verdi's beautiful melodies and his engagement with the role is matched by the technically flawless, girlish, touching Gilda of Moffo, her voice in its liquid, open-hearted prime. She makes judicious use of portamenti and floats top notes without any strain. This is a performance to match her Violetta (see my review). I have read elsewhere that Solti drives hard - too hard - but I hear no inappropriate rush in the more introspective moments such as Gilda's "Tutte le feste" and he can certainly be relied upon to maximise the horror and pathos of that terrible thunderstorm scene. As ever, I have minor reservations about Kraus' Duke. I admit that I do not much like the essentially reedy quality of his voice and having watched him sing and conduct master classes, I think I can see how his insistence upon the "letter-box" shaped mouth makes his vocal production flawed and white - hence the squeezed nature of his ill-advised top D at the climax of "Possente amor" - but (as I have said in other reviews) you either like him or you don't and he certainly delivers an impassioned, caddish Duke, even if he cannot match the virile beauty of Bjorling or Pavarotti. (I must also concede that his top B at the end of "La donna e mobile" is a cracker.) The supporting cast is fine, even if others elsewhere are marginally preferable.

For me, the twin glories of this set are Solti's direction and Merrill's peerless vocalisation. As much as I love the way Gobbi matchlessly inflects the text, Merrill is altogether more secure and thrilling, vocally. This set is available cheaply in the new Sony "Masterworks Opera" series with a downloadable libretto and the sound is marvellous - you'd never guess it was recorded in 1963.
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