Verdi: La forza del destino / Mehta, Wiener Staatsoper [Blu-ray]

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“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. Verdi’s 1862 opera is regularly performed and the overture is part of the standard repertoire for orchestras, but this production stands apart from the rest. 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).

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REVIEW:

Tenor Salvatore Licitra as Don Alvaro in La forza del destino, captured in Vienna 10 years ago - his singing is admirably clean, his tone noble. Alongside him, Nina Stemme is a gutsy Leonora, assiduously following the score’s markings, Carlos Álvarez an outstanding Don Carlo, Alistair Miles a firm and cleanly- sung Padre Guardiano.

– Opera Now


Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: 751104


  • UPC: 814337015114


  • Label: C Major


  • Composer: Giuseppe Verdi


  • Conductor: Zubin Mehta


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna State Opera Orchestra


  • Performer: Alastair Miles, Carlos Alvarez, Nadia Krasteva, Nina Stemme, Salvatore Licitra