LA TRAVIATA La Scala 1914 ( Complete Opera Verdi)

Toscanini s assistant Carlo SABAJNO conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala. This is the first complete recording of La Traviata, produced in Milano 1914 for the Gramophone Company (HMV): Margherita BEVIGNANI (1887 1921) Violetta Valery Franco TUMMINELLO (1880 ) Alfredo Germont Ernesto BADINI (1876 1937) Giorgio Germont Act 1 (03:41) A lavish Paris apartment. Violetta the consumptive heroine with a dodgy past gives a night party (Libiamo ne lieti calici, 08:22) at which Alfredo declares his love for her (Un dì, felice, eterea, 13:48). As everyone leaves, Violetta wonders if this really can be true love (Ah, fors è lui, 20:10) but then in Sempre libera (25:13) she will just enjoy Act 2 (28:39) Violetta s country house outside Paris. Three months later, Alfredo and Violetta are living together (Alfredo: De, 39