Isobel Buchanan - "Caro nome" RIGOLETTO (Verdi) 1977

The Scottish soprano, Isobel Buchanan, made her professional operatic debut at the Sydney Opera House - as Pamina in Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE - in 1976. Two years later, she made her British debut in the same role.
Her career saw her singing at the Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera and in Munich, Paris, Cologne, Hamburg and Monte Carlo. She was an audience favourite with Opera Australia where her roles included Zerlina in both DON GIOVANNI and FRA DIAVOLO, the Contessa, Donna Elvira, Valencienne, Micaela, Amelia in SIMON BOCCANEGRA, Gilda, Norina, Ellen in LAKMÉ and Helena in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM. This recording, from an Opera Australia production on tour in New Zealand in 1977, captures her Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's RIGOLETTO. The conductor is Richard Bonynge.

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What a great talent! That such a singer could fall between the wings of history… it says a lot about our (music)world since the eighties…

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Lovely if rather slow.