COMPOSERS: Donizetti
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Donizetti
WORKS: L’elisir d’amore – highlights
PERFORMER: Battle, Pavarotti, Dara; Metropolitan Opera/James Levine
CATALOGUE NO: 482 5625 (1989)
Nemorino in Donizetti’s comedy was one of Pavarotti’s signature roles, though he sounds on the fulsome side in this highlights edition, with Kathleen Battle a distanced Adina.
George Hall