Verdi - La Forza del Destino [2 DVDs] - Naxos Deutschland

"Aufnahme"
Live at the Wiener Staatsoper, 1 March 2008

"Libretto" by Francesco Maria Piave

"Musik"
Bühnenorchester, Zusatzchor und Kinder der Balletschule der Wiener Staatsoper
Wiener Staatsballett
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper

"Interpreten"
II Marchese di Calatrava - Alastair Miles
Donna Leonora - Nina Stemme
Don Carlo di Vargas - Carlos Alvarez
Don Alvaro - Salvatore Licitra
Padre Guardiano - Alastair Miles
Preziosilla - Nadia Krasteva
Fra Melitone - Tiziano Bracci
Curra - Elisabeta Marin
Un alcalde - Dan Paul Dumitrescu
Mastro Trabuco - Michael Roider
Un Chirurgo - Clemens Unterreiner

La forza del destino

“The cast is a dream team,” wrote the Financial Times after the premiere of this production of Verdi’s La forza del destino at the Wiener Staatsoper. Powerful performances by Nina Stemme, who gives a fullblooded portrayal of Leonora, Alastair Miles as her father, Salvatore Licitra as Alvaro, Carlos Álvarez as Don Carlo and Nadia Krasteva as Preziosilla resulted in one of the Viennese ensemble’s most celebrated achievements of recent years. Zubin Mehta leads the Staatsoper Orchestra with agility, subtleness and relaxed mastery, and right from the start David Pountney establishes an atmosphere of entrapment by fate. “A perfect utopia.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)