Verdi's Luisa Miller performed by Millo, Domingo, Chernov, Quivar, Plishka, Rootering and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus

This is the first of Verdi’s ‘domestic’ operas. A work of incongruities, it has the best case made for it by Levine and his starry cast, with Domingo in his glory days and Aprile Millo a winning heroine.

Michael Tanner

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5

Michael Tanner

Published: March 14, 2017 at 11:16 am

COMPOSERS: Verdi
LABELS: Sony
ALBUM TITLE: Verdi
WORKS: Luisa Miller
PERFORMER: Millo, Domingo, Chernov, Quivar, Plishka, Rootering, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus/James Levine
CATALOGUE NO: Sony 88875194772 (1992)

This is the first of Verdi’s ‘domestic’ operas. A work of incongruities, it has the best case made for it by Levine and his starry cast, with Domingo in his glory days and Aprile Millo a winning heroine.

Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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