GIUSEPPE VERDI

- La forza del destino

ASKAR ABDRAZAKOV: Il marchese di Calatrava
GALINA GORCHAKOVA: Donna Leonora
NIKOLAI PUTILIN: Don Carlo di Vargas
GEGAM GRIGORIAN: Don Alvaro
OLGA BORODINA: Preziosilla
MIKHAIL KIT: Padre Guardiano
GEORGY ZASTAVNY: Fra Melitone
LIA SHEVTZOVA: Curra
GENNADY BEZZUBENKOV: Un alcade
NIKOLAI GASSIEV: Maestro Trabuco
YURI LAPTEV: Un chirurgo

ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF THE KIROV OPERA, ST PETERSBURG
conducted by VALERY GERGIEV

3 CD 446 951-2 DDD
PHILIPS

- Verdi's La forza del destino is one of the most powerful dramas performed by opera houses all over the world today. But many people are not aware that what we hear nowadays is actually the revised version of the opera that Verdi wrote following its première, which took place in St Petersburg in 1862.

- So it is appropriate that for their recording of La forza Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Opera have returned to the original St Petersburg version from 1862.