Verdi: La Battaglia di Legnano (Live 2-CD) – Franco Corelli

Composer: Giuseppi Verdi
Artist: Franco Corelli, Antonietta Stella, Ettore Bastianini, Marco Stefanoni, Silvio Maionica, Agostino Ferrin, Antonio Zerbini, Virgilio Carbonari, Aurora Catellani, Rinaldo Pelizzoni, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Urania
Release Date: March 26, 2025

La Battaglia di Legnano is among the least recorded operas of the Verdi repertoire. Currently, the only studio edition available is the Philips recording conducted by Lamberto Gardelli in the 1970s. However, prior to that edition, this recording, made at La Scala in 1961, enjoyed great fame and diffusion. 

For this reason, and for the excellent quality of the sound recording, this long-unavailable document has undergone a new equalization of the sound source, making the original recording as natural as possible. The vocal cast remains one of the greatest in the entire history of recording.

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