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Title: Good Manrico but disappointing on the whole
Review: This one has the best sound of the three live Trovatore performances with Callas, 1950 Mexico, 1952 Naples and 1953 La Scala (this one). Callas is good but nothing more. She is dramatically uninteresting and almost boring sometimes. Ebe Stignani and Carlo Tagliabue are past their prime and wobbly. The only somewhat interesting main cast member is the Manrico of Gino Penno. He is not the league of Franco Corelli, Jussi Bjorling or Placido Domingo, whom I consider the best in the role, but he does a good job with the role.Antonio Votto is somewhat uninteresting also. We get none of the exciting dramatic reading like we get from Karajan or Serafin. It is much more sedated.So to conclude, this performance is not recommended to anyone except those of has to have every live recording of Callas' Leonora.
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