La Traviata. G. Verdi. June Anderson, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Dmitri Hvorostovsky..
The complete opera, audio version, recording from 1993, Chicago Lyric Opera.
Conductor: Bruno Bartoletti (whose Lyric “Traviata“ connection goes back 37 years).
From the review:
The much-touted 30-year-old Siberian bass-baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, in his U.S. opera debut, scored an immediate sensation as the elder Germont. The voice is the genuine Verdi article, a warm, mellow, splendidly resonant instrument that commands long phrases with amazing breath control and tonal security, never forcing for effect, always musical and true. His acting is as yet a mite stolid, although this Germont shed some of his sternly moral dignity as his compassion for Violetta grew (there was more than a hint of sexual attraction between them). Hvorostovsky clearly is an important new singer; one can only
hope he resists the urge to go too far, too fast.
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