Soloist: Colombara, Carlo

Choir: Sofia National Opera Chorus

Orchestra: Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Orchestra: Prague Tchaikovsky Orchestra

Conductor: Ghiaurov, Vladimir

Conductor: Gyorivanyi-Rath, Gyorgy

Conductor: Milani, Fabrizio

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Composer: Bizet, Georges

Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe

Composer: Rossini, Gioachino

Composer: Gounod, Charles-Francois

Composer: Boito, Arrigo

Composer: Rachmaninov, Sergei

Composer: Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich

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Playing Time: 01:08:38

Television Director: Martos, Oscar

Catalogue Number: 2.110612

UPC: 747313561254

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Described as 'the great Verdian bass'(Le Figaro) and a 'Mefistofele who stood out over all the others' (Der Neue Merker), Carlo Colombra brings some of the most famous bass roles to life in this wide-ranging programme. Emotions range from the pride of Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, through the terrors of Verdi's Attila, to the tender recollections of Rachmaninov's Aleko. Mephistopheles strides powerfully through both Gounod and Boito's operas, and Rossini's comic with contrasts with the darkness of Mussorgsky's Boris Godonov