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🇬🇧 With English subtitles and the 🇮🇹 sung Italian text on screen.
ℹ️ Recorded at the Teatro alla Scala on June 7*, 1962. (*some editions give May 28 as the recording date)
The 170 photos illustrating the performance are the work of Scala’s in-house photographer, Erio Piccagliani. (Some were taken during rehearsals, so the costumes/hair are different here and there.)
Giacomo Meyerbeer: Gli Ugonotti (Les Huguenots) - sung in Italian
Teatro alla Scala, 1962
Raoul de Nangis, a
...Protestant gentleman - Franco Corelli (tenor)
Valentine, daughter of Count de Saint-Bris - Giulietta Simionato (mezzo-soprano)
Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre - Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Marcel, a Huguenot soldier, Raoul’s servant - Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
the Count of Saint-Bris,Show more