Verdi's "Rigoletto"; "La Traviata"

I would go for the only great Rigoletto on cd or lp if you can find it and that would be the EMI recording with Callas,Destafano, and the great Tito gobi in the tital role of Rigoletto. If your interested in a good performance with excellent sound than go for the Pavarotti, Sutherland, Milnes on London. I would go for a Mono recording with good sound on RCA, the La Traviata with Toscanini conducting Jan Peerce, Albanese,
Merrill in a wonderful and moving recording, and if you listen closely you will hear Toscanini humming. Hope that helps enjoy.

For La Traviata, Georgiou/Solti on Decca and Cotrubas/Kleiber on DG (now an SACD) come pretty close to the best of both worlds.

David

To Drobin07, I did not know the Cotrubas/Kleiber is out on
SACD - can I have the number, please!

My player is red-book only. Is the SACD hybrid? thanks