La Traviata 1964 Margherita Rinaldi, Pavarotti, Taddei, Guarnieri, Dublin

VIOLETTA MARGHERITA RINALDI ALFREDO GERMONT LUCIANO PAVAROTTI GIORGIO GERMONT GIUSEPPE TADDEI FLORA BERVOIX MARY SHERIDAN ANNINA MONICA CONDRON GASTONE BRENDAN CAVANAGH BARONE DOUPHOL ALBERTO ORO MARCHESE D’OBIGNY ERNESTO VEZZOSI DOTTORE GRENVIL LORIS GAMBELLI CONDUCTOR FERDINANDO GUARNIERI DUBLIN GRAND OPERA SOCIETY RADIO EIREANN SIMPHONY ORCHESTRA . CHORUS 1964 It has now been established that two separate and distinct recordings have survived of this 1964 production of “La Traviata”; but for many years, only a single recorded version was known to exist – predictably enough a radio broadcast of what turned out to be the final performance of the series featuring Cesare Bardelli as Giorgio Germont. The story of how this came about – and how the second recording emerged – is worth