La Traviata

Ileana Cotrubas (Violetta), Plácido Domingo (Alfredo), Sherrill Milnes (Giorgio Germont), Stefania Malagù (Flora), Helena Jungwirth (Annina), Walter Gullino (Gastone), Giovanni Foiani (Dottore Grenvil), Bruno Grella (Barone Douphol), Alfredo Giacomotti (Marchese d'Obigny) & Bayerischer Staatsopernchor & Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber

"Cotrubas makes an ideal heroine in this opera, for her characterization combines strength with vulnerability...Kleiber's direction is controversial, with more than a hint of Toscanini-like rigidity in the party music...[but] the overall effect is highly involving, indeed thrilling, and this reissue must be counted an outstanding success."
Penguin Guide - 2010 edition

"I am bound to say that, in terms of singing, playing, conducting and sound quality, this set comes closer to my notions of an ideal experience than any Verdi I have ever heard on disc."
Records and Recording - December 1977