Il Trovatore
Giuseppe Verdi, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Giulietta Simionato, Ugo Savarese, Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, L'Orchestre Du Grand Théâtre De Genève, Alberto Erede
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Artists
Album Info
Release Date: 1959-06Label: Decca
This is the first release with this cat # and this is corroborated by the UK Tax Code ET (Apr 8th 1959 - July 31st 1960)Recorded 20-26 July 1956 in Victoria Hall, Geneva
First released in mono LXT 5260-62 (October 56) and in stereo SXL 2129-31 (June 59)
Record 1 with cat. # SXL.2129 is a so-called pancake pressing (labelography code ED8)
Record 2 & 3 with cat. SXL.2130-31 have ED1 labels
This is the first release in a red box with a libretto in Italian
(I think that the libretto which was made for SXL 2129-30-1 and LXT 5260-1-2 was bought separately for 4/-)
Cat #
SXL 2129-30-1 on front
SXL 2129/31 on spine