CD Bellini: I Puritani, Muti/MMFO

“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:

Vincenzo Bellini, I Puritani

Graziano Del Vivo (Lord Gualtiero Valton)
Agostino Ferrin (Sir Giorgio)
Nicolai Gedda (Lord Arturo Talbo)
Sesto Bruscantini (Sir Riccardo Forth)
Valiano Natali (Sir Bruno Robertson)
Flora Rafanelli (Enrichetta di Francia)
Cristina Deutekom (Elvira)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Muti (condutor)