Verdi: La Traviata

Riccardo Muti and Renata Scotto collaborated frequently, both in the recording studio and the opera house. Muti, a supreme Verdian, brings dramatic urgency and delicate lyricism to the score of La traviata while Scotto interprets Violetta with a wealth of perception and artistry.

Violetta Valéry - Renata Scotto
Alfredo Germont - Alfredo Kraus
Giorgio Germont - Renato Bruson
Flora Bervoix - Sarah Walker
Annina - Cynthia Buchan
Barone Douphol - Henry Newman
Marchese d’Obigny - Richard Van Allan
Gastone - Suso Mariátegui
Dottore Grenvil - Roderick Kennedy
Giuseppe - Max-René Cosotti
Commissionario - Christopher Keyte

Ambrosian Opera Chorus - John McCarthy chorus master
Band of the Royal Marines (Royal Marines School of Music)
Principal Director of Music Lieutenant-Colonel J.R Mason
Philharmonia Orchestra · Riccardo Muti
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave after La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Recorded: 5–15.VII.1980, Kingsway Hall, London