GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.

GoteborgsOperan (The Goteborg Opera), Gothenburg, premiere of the production, 3 April 2004; Verdi's La forza del destino, given there as "Odets makt". Sources. (1) The cast sheet distributed with the recording, in the folder as "Cast.doc" (an RTF). It gives the full cast by role -- Il Marchese di Calatrava: Sten Wahlund; Donna Leonora: Alessandra Rezza; Don Carlo di Vargas: Mats Persson; Don Alvaro: Mario Carrara; Preziosilla: Ulrika Tenstam; Padre Guardiano: Mats Almgren; Fra Melitone: Palle Hansen; Curra: Pia Svorono; Mastro Trabucco: Iwar Bergkvist; Un alcalde: Markus Schwartz; Un chirurgo: Anders Lorentzon -- with "Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus", "Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor", the production team (Knut Hendriksen, Camilla Bjornvad, Jesper Kongshaug, Juan Carlos Requena), and the line "Goteborg Opera - April 3, 2004 (Premiere)". Orchestra and chorus are recorded here in the sheet's own wording. (2) The house's own 2003/04 season page, independently of the sheet: "Odets makt / Opera av Giuseppe Verdi / Premiar 3 april 2004" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20030720024313/http://www.opera.se/program.asp?id=3 (Wayback capture of opera.se, 20 July 2003). It carries no cast, so it corroborates the work, the house and the date but not the singers. The folder name carries only a bare year, "La Forza del Destino - 2004 (Wahlund, Rezza, Persson - Morandi)"; the month and day come from the two sources above agreeing on the premiere. Completeness: the three mp3s decode to 174 minutes total (4719 + 3382 + 2395 s, measured by decoding rather than from the container headers), consistent with a complete performance. Not in findopera before this. `search recording "forza del destino" --conductor morandi` returned only 8694, which is Morandi's Marseille performance of 17/19 May 1998 with Cura (operadis CLVEFORZ.HTM entry 96 dates and places it); `--year 2004` returned nothing at Goteborg. operadis lists no Goteborg Forza at all. Six singers had to be created for this cast (Mats Persson, Mario Carrara, Ulrika Tenstam, Palle Hansen, Pia Svorono, Iwar Bergkvist); each was searched for by full name and by surname first. One judgement call: the sheet spells the Surgeon "Anders Lorentzon", and this portrayal is attached to the existing findopera singer 14206, Anders Lorentzson, the Swedish bass long resident at GoteborgsOperan. Creating a second, one-letter-different record looked more likely to produce a duplicate than to be right, but the sheet's spelling is noted here so the choice is visible and reversible. Billing: La forza del destino has no title character, so the usual "bill the title role" check cannot apply here. The three noted roles are the work's conventional leads -- Leonora, Don Alvaro and Don Carlo.