Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Bonaldo Giaiotti, Franco Corelli, Grace Bumbry, Birgit Nilsson, Mario Sereni, Mirella Fiorentini, Ferruccio Mazzoli, Coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Rome Opera House
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Urania
Catalogue: WS121393
Release: 2021
Size: 557 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Aida
CD 01
Act I
01. Preludio
Scene 1
02. Sì, corre voce che l’etiope ardisca
03. Se quel guerrier io fossi
04. Quale insolita gioia nel tuo sguardo!
05. Alta cagion v’aduna
06. Ritorna vincitor!
Scene 2
07. Possente Fthà
08. Nume custode e vindice
Act II
Scene 1
09. Chi mai fra gl’inni e i plausi
10. Fu la sorte dell’armi a’ tuoi funesta
Scene 2
11. Gloria all’egitto, ad Iside
12. Marcia trionfale e balletto
13. Vieni, o guerriero vindice
14. Salvator della patria
15. O Re, pei sacri Numi
CD 02
Act III
01. O tu che sei d’osiride
02. Qui Radames verrà
03. O patria mia, mai più ti rivedrò
04. Cielo! Mio padre!
05. Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida
06. Ma, dimmi. Per qual via eviteremo
Act IV
Scene 1
07. L’abborrita rivale a me sfuggia
08. Già i sacerdoti adunansi
09. Ohimè! Morir mi sento
10. Spirto del Nume sovra noi discendi!
Scene 2
11. La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse
12. O terra, addio
This set contains one of the most famous complete recording of Aida as well as one of the few testimony of Franco Corelli performing a complete Verdian opera, in the modern interpretation by Zubin Mehta. Zubin Mehta received his first musical education under his father’s guidance, who was a noted concert violinist and the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. After a short period of pre-medical studies in Bombay, he left for Vienna in 1954 where he eventually entered the conducting program under Hans Swarowsky at the Akademie für Musik. Zubin Mehta won the Liverpool International Conducting Competition in 1958 and was also a prize-winner of the summer academy at Tanglewood. By 1961 he had already conducted the Vienna, Berlin and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras and has recently celebrated 50 years of musical collaboration with all three ensembles. The present recording was made in 1966.