Verdi - La Forza del Destino (From the Met, 1977)

Verdi - La Forza del Destino (From the Met, 1977)

This was a continuous broadcast on BBC Radio 3. I have split the recording into its acts (re-encoded from .m4a to 320kbps .mp3) and the commentary (encoded into 96kbps .mp3)

Two of the great operatic singers of our times star in this historic 1977 performance from the Met's archive of Verdi's La Forza del Destino. Both Leontyne Pryce and Placido Domingo are at the peak of their careers as they take the roles of the ill-fated lovers Leonora and Don Alvaro in Verdi's tragic tale of love, divided loyalties, revenge and death.

Leonora.....Leontyne Price (soprano)
Preziosilla.....Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano)
Don Alvaro.....Placido Domingo (tenor)
Don Carlo.....Cornell MacNeil (baritone)
Fra Melitone.....Renato Capecchi (baritone)
Padre Guardiano.....Martti Talvela (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of The Metropolitan Opera, New York
James Levine, conductor.



Media info:

General
Format : MPEG Audio
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 320 Kbps
Writing library : LAME3.98r

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Writing library : LAME3.98r
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 20.5