COMPOSERS: Donizetti,Rossini,Verdi
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Verdi: Falstaff - Scenes; Rossini, Donizetti: Opera Arias
WORKS: Arias from Falstaff, The Barber of Seville, The Thieving Magpie, L’elisir d’amore and Don Pasquale
PERFORMER: Fernando Corena (bass); various orchestras/Erede, Downes
CATALOGUE NO: 482 0268 (1952-63)
The combination of Fernnado Corena, the buffo bass of choice 50 years ago, with Edward Downes for Falstaff makes this a must. Otherwise Corena is an almost sympathetic Dr Bartolo and a rollicking Dulcamara. Christopher Cook