Bellini: I Puritani, Muti/MMFO (2-CD)

Discs: 2
Record Label: Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Release Year: 2018

“Muti, then not even thirty years old, has a natural sense of the right time, of Bellini’s time — of that enchanted slowness from which the music springs and on which it rests, as on a cloud of sound that slightly moves.” — Maurizio Modugno, Musica

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Riccardo Muti’s debut at the Teatro del Maggio, hear again Muti’s acclaimed 1970 performances of Bellini’s I Puritani. Each installment of this commemorative series has been personally selected by the Maestro from Teatro del Maggio’s archives.

Contents:

Bellini I Puritani (The Puritans)
Nicolai Gedda Lord Arturo Talbo
Cristina Deutekom Elvira
Sesto Bruscantini Sir Riccardo Forth
Agostino Ferrin Sir Giorgio Valton
Graziano Del Vivo Lord Gualtiero Valton
Valiano Natali Sir Bruno Robertson
Flora Rafanelli Enrichetta di Francia
Orchestra & Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
December 1970, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Florence