Luigi Alva
Luigi Alva (1927-2025) was a Peruvian tenor, one of the great Mozart and Rossini singers of the twentieth century. He was admired for elegance, agility and perfectly placed lyric style.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Mozart, Rossini and Verdi, including Giulini’s Don Giovanni, Callas’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Giulini’s Falstaff.
Alva’s singing combined grace, rhythmic ease and clean dictio...
MOZART Don Giovanni
Stereo recording, 1959
Total duration: 2hr 42min
Eberhard Wächter - Don Giovanni
Joan Sutherland - Donna Anna
Luigi Alva - Don Ottavio
Gottlob Frick - Commendatore
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Donna Elvira
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus
Conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia
Stereo studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 2hr 9:58
Rosina - Maria Callas
Il conte d'Almaviva - Luigi Alva
Figaro - Tito Gobbi
Bartolo - Fritz Ollendorff
Basilio - Nicola Zaccaria
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
conducted by Alceo Galliera
VERDI Falstaff
Live performance, 1961
Total duration: 2hr 8:13
Geraint Evans Sir John Falstaff
Robert Bowman Bardolph
Michael Langdon Pistol
Regina Resnik Mistress Quickly
Mirella Freni Anne Ford
Luigi Alva Fenton
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Covent Garden Orchestra
conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia
Stereo studio recording, 1962
Total duration: 2hr 21:14
Figaro – Sesto Bruscantini
Rosina – Victoria de los Angeles
Il conte d’Almaviva – Luigi Alva
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Vittorio Gui