La forza del destino discography
# La forza del destino discography

This is a partial discography of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La forza del destino.

## 1862 original version

| Year | Cast (Leonora, Alvaro, Carlo, Preziosilla, Fra Melitone, Padre Guardiano) | Conductor, Opera house and orchestra | Label |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1981 | Martina Arroyo Kenneth Collins Peter Glossop Janet Coster Derek Hammond-Stroud Don Garrard | John Matheson BBC Concert Orchestra BBC chorus (recorded at Promenade Concert on 8 August) | CD: Opera Rara Cat: ORCV 304 |
| 1995 | Galina Gorchakova Gegam Grigorian Nikolai Putilin Olga Borodina Georgy Zastavny Mikail Kit | Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Theatre orchestra & chorus | CD: Phillips Cat: 446 951-2 |
| 1998 | Galina Gorchakova Gegam Grigorian Nikolai Putilin Marianna Tarasova Georgy Zastavny Sergei Alexaschkin | Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Theatre orchestra & chorus | Video DVD: Arthaus Musik Cat: 100.078 |

## 1869 revised version

| Year | Cast (Leonora, Alvaro, Carlo, Preziosilla, Fra Melitone, Padre Guardiano) | Conductor, Opera house and orchestra | Label |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1941 | Maria Caniglia Galliano Masini Carlo Tagliabue Ebe Stignani Saturno Meletti Tancredi Pasero | Gino Marinuzzi Orchestra e Coro dell'EIAR di Torino | CD: Warner-Fonit Cat: 8573 82652-5 |
| 1953 | Renata Tebaldi Mario Del Monaco Aldo Protti Fedora Barbieri Renato Capecchi Cesare Siepi | Dimitri Mitropoulos Teatro Comunale di Firenze Orchestra and Chorus | CD: Cetra Records |
| 1954 | Maria Callas Richard Tucker Carlo Tagliabue Elena Nicolai Renato Capecchi Nicola Rossi-Lemeni | Tulio Serafin Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus | CD: EMI Cat: 5 56323-2 |
| 1955 | Renata Tebaldi Mario Del Monaco Ettore Bastianini Giulietta Simionato Fernando Corena Cesare Siepi | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | CD: Decca Records Cat: 475 8681 |
| 1956 | Renata Tebaldi Giuseppe Di Stefano Giangiacomo Guelfi Fedora Barbieri Melchiorre Luise Giulio Neri | Gabriele Santini Teatro Comunale di Firenze Orchestra and Chorus | CD: Myto Historical |
| 1958 | Renata Tebaldi Franco Corelli Ettore Bastianini Oralia Domínguez Renato Capecchi Boris Christoff | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Teatro di San Carlo orchestra & chorus (recorded on 15 March) | DVD: Hardy Classic Cat: HCA 6014 |
| 1962 | Gré Brouwenstijn Jan Peerce John Shaw Rena Garazioti Renato Capecchi Georg Littasy | Alberto Erede Dutch National Opera orchestra & chorus (recorded on 5 July) | CD: Osteria Cat: OS-1002 |
| 1964 | Leontyne Price Richard Tucker Robert Merrill Shirley Verrett Ezio Flagello Giorgio Tozzi | Thomas Schippers RCA Italiana Orchestra & chorus | CD: RCA Victor Cat: GD 87971 |
| 1966 | Elena Souliotis Carlo Menippo Mario Sereni Franca Mattiucci Alfredo Mariotti Ivo Vinco Alessandro Maddalena Angela Rocco | Pasquale de Angelis Teatro di San Carlo orchestra & chorus | CD: Hardy Classic Cat: 6005-2 |
| 1969 | Martina Arroyo Carlo Bergonzi Piero Cappuccilli Bianca Maria Casoni Geraint Evans Ruggero Raimondi | Lamberto Gardelli Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Ambrosian Singers | CD: EMI Cat: CMS 5 67124-2 |
| 1976 | Leontyne Price Plácido Domingo Sherrill Milnes Fiorenza Cossotto Gabriel Bacquier Bonaldo Giaiotti | James Levine London Symphony Orchestra John Alldis Choir | CD: RCA Red Seal Cat: 74321 39502 2 |
| 1978 | Liljana Molnar-Talajic Veriano Luchetti Renato Bruson Franca Mattiucci Walter Monachesi Bonaldo Giaiotti | Maurizio Arena Verona Arena orchestra & chorus | CD: Reel tape Cat: 3929 |
| 1979 | Leontyne Price Veriano Luchetti Guillermo Sarabia Judith Forst Giuseppe Taddei Martti Talvela David Cumberland Gwendolyn Jones | Kurt Herbert Adler San Francisco Opera orchestra & chorus | CD: Reel Tape Cat: 5398 |
| 1985 | Rosalind Plowright José Carreras Renato Bruson Agnes Baltsa Juan Pons Paata Burchuladze | Giuseppe Sinopoli Philharmonia Orchestra Ambrosian Singers | CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 477 5621 |
| 1986 | Mirella Freni Plácido Domingo Giorgio Zancanaro Dolora Zajick Sesto Bruscantini Paul Plishka | Riccardo Muti Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus | CD: EMI Classics Cat: CDS 7 47485-8 |
| 1992 | Andrea Gruber Giuseppe Giacomini Eduard Tumagian Ildikó Komlósi Renato Capecchi László Polgár Franco Federici Piera Puglisi | Spiros Argiris Teatro Massimo Bellini orchestra & chorus | CD: House of Opera Cat: 690 |
| 2006 | Susanna Branchini Renzo Zulian Marco Di Felice Paolo Battaglia Paolo Rumetz | Lukas Karytinos Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta Teatro Sociale di Rovigo chorus | DVD: Dynamic Cat: 33512 |
| 2013 | Anja Harteros Jonas Kaufmann Ludovic Tézier Nadia Krasteva Vitalij Kowaljow | Asher Fisch Bayerische Staatsoper orchestra & chorus | DVD: Sony Classical Cat: 88875160649 |
