Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, Muti/MMFO (CD)

Discs: 1
Record Label: Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Release Year: 2018

“Muti’s Pagliacci [exhibits] a magnificent and powerful sound, phonic images from time to time extraordinary or unexpected.” — Musica

Three years after his debut at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Florence, Riccardo Muti returned to the podium in a double bill of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Petro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana. Here, experience this historic performance of Leoncavallo’s sole masterwork.

Contents:

Leoncavallo Pagliacci
Mietta Sighele Nedda
Richard Tucker Canio
Kari Nurmela Tonio
Ermanno Lorenzi Peppe
Walter Alberti Silvio
Orchestra & Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
January 1971, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Florence