For the most part, the series of early Verdi studio recordings Lamberto Gardelli made for Philips in the 1970’s leads the field, because he had exceptionally strong casts featuring singers such as the young José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Montserrat Caballé, Carlo Bergonzi, Jessye Norman et al, but also because they are sometimes still the only studio recordings made to date. They might be lesser works but they contain many beauties. That leaves the considerable number of fourteen operas unconsidered. I have previously posted fairly extensive surveys of twelve of Verdi’s major operas and his Requiem but none of the sixteen works prior to Rigoletto apart from Luisa Miller and Macbeth – and the latter was, in any case, revised in 1864, seventeen years after its premiere and may thus be counted, in part at least, as a mature work. United Survey of Recordings of Verdi's Early and Less Well-known Operas
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