Verdi: Il trovatore

A legendary meeting of vocal giants under Karajan’s masterful baton. This 1977 Il Trovatore is defined by the incomparable Leonora of Leontyne Price - whom Karajan considered the greatest in the world - and the noble authority of Piero Cappuccilli. Shifting away from crude melodrama, Karajan transforms Verdi’s score into a shimmering, late-romantic masterpiece, where the Berlin Philharmonic provides a wall of sound as plush as velvet and as sharp as steel