Verdi: La forza del destino

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Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

Tullio Serafin

Relentlessly pursued by Fate, Leonora in La forza del destino is a haunted heroine whose passions and fears are expressed on a grand scale. Callas’s stage experience of Forza was limited to her early career in Italy – in fact, Leonora was her first Verdi role – but, as Lord Harewood, founder of Opera magazine, observed, her recorded assumption exhibited ‘an unparalleled musical sensibility and imagination and a grasp of the musico-dramatic picture which is unique’. She took her place in a powerful cast conducted by her mentor Tullio Serafin.

Donna Leonora: Maria Callas

Don Alvaro: Richard Tucker

Don Carlo di Vargas: Carlo Tagliabue

Padre Guardiano: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni

Preiozilla: Elena Nicolai

Fra Melitone: Renato Capecchi

Il marchese di Calatrava: Plinio Clabassi

Curra: Rina Cavallari

Mastro Trabuco: Gino Del Signore

Un alcade/Un chirurgo: Dario Caselli

Soldati/Giocatori: Giulio Scarinci, Ottorino Bagalli