Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Una vela! Una vela! - Alan Opie, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Keyes, Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
2. Esultate! - Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
3. Roderigo, ebben che pensi? - Leo Nucci, John Keyes, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
4. Fuoco di gioia! - Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
5. Roderigo, beviam! - Leo Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Keyes, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
6. Inaffia l'ugola! Trinca, tracanna (Brindisi) - Leo Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Keyes, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
7. Capitano, v'attende la fazione ai baluardi - Alan Opie, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Leo Nucci, John Keyes, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
8. Abbasso le spade! - Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Alan Opie, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
9. Già nella notte densa...Venga la morte - Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
10. Non ti crucciar - Leo Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
11. Vanne! la tua meta già vedo - Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
12. Credo in un Dio crudel - Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
13. Ciò m'accora - Leo Nucci, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
14. Dove guardi splendono - Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Leo Nucci, The Metropolitan Childrens Chorus, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
15. D'un uom che geme sotto il tuo disdegno - Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
16. Se inconscia, contro te, sposo, ho peccato - Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Elzbieta Ardam, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
17. Desdemona rea! - Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
18. Tu?! Indietro! fuggi! - Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
19. Ora e per sempre addio - Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
20. Pace, signor - Leo Nucci, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
21. Era la notte, Cassio dormia - Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
22. Oh! mostruosa colpa!...Ah! mille vite - Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
23. Si, pel ciel marmoreo giuro! - Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti

Disc 2:

1. La vedetta del porto - Richard Cohn, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
2. Continua - Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
3. Dio ti giocondi, o sposo - Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
4. Esterrefatta fisso - Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
5. Dio! mi potevi scagliar - Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
6. Cassio è là! - Leo Nucci, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
7. Vieni; l'aula è deserta - Leo Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
8. ...e intanto, giacchè non si stanca mai - Leo Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
9. Quest'è il segnale - Leo Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
10. Il Doge ed il Senato salutano - Dimitri Kavrakos, Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Elzbieta Ardam, Leo Nucci, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
11. Messeri! Il Doge - Luciano Pavarotti, John Keyes, Leo Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Dimitri Kavrakos, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
12. A terra!...si...nel livido fango - Kiri Te Kanawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
13. Quell' innocente un fremito - Elzbieta Ardam, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Keyes, Dimitri Kavrakos, Kiri Te Kanawa, Leo Nucci, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
14. Fuggite! - Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Dimitri Kavrakos, Kiri Te Kanawa, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
15. Era più calmo? - Elzbieta Ardam, Kiri Te Kanawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
16. Mia madre aveva una povera ancella - Kiri Te Kanawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
17. "Piangea cantando nell'erma landa..." - Kiri Te Kanawa, Elzbieta Ardam, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
18. Ave Maria, piena di grazia - Kiri Te Kanawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
19. (Otello compare) - Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
20. Diceste questa sera le vostre preci? - Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
21. Aprite! Aprite! - Elzbieta Ardam, Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Leo Nucci, Dimitri Kavrakos, Alan Opie, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
22. Niun mi tema - Luciano Pavarotti, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Dimitri Kavrakos, Alan Opie, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91211 in Music
• Released on: 1991-10-08
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .60 pounds
• Running time: 131 minutes

Customer Reviews

Most beautiful version of Otello
Comparing this version with Cat No. 74321395012 with Scotto and Domingo, this version brings out the beauty of Verdi's music. Te Kanawa is a wonderfully sweet Desdemona with none of Scotto's gutterality and her voice harmonizes well with Pavarotti. Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Cassio is a treat when he appears. Only Nucci as Iago lets the cast down. He seems to be making so much effort to pump out the notes that he often seems to forget to bring across the evil of this villain. Sherrill Milnes in this role is a hard act to follow and Nucci doesn't come close. Get this version of Otello if you want some enjoyable and very lovely listening. Get the Domingo/Milnes/Scotto version if you want the full drama of the opera but with a harsher sound for Desdemona.

A Noble Moor
This was Solti's farewell as music director of the Chicago Symphony. The audience was wildly enthusiastic and so am I. As recorded, Pavarotti's voice is by no means too light for the role: it rings out with full, golden tone and is innately moving. Domingo may be more subtle at times. If you want a grossly unsubtle Otello then there is Vickers.Kiri Te Kanawa is at her loveliest, as she always was for Solti. The orchestral sound is gorgeous. Highlights include the cellos introducing the love scene,which I have heard so seamlessly played, and the garden scene, where the mandoline solo is magical in the way it blends with the orchestra. I have read a few condescending remarks by critics about this set: ignore them. This was a truly unique and historic occasion.