Opera Depot now has three recordings of Verdi 's Macbeth with Amy Shuard. They're all excellent, all in good sound, and all have great baritones in the title role. Anselmo Colzani was the Met's go-to Italian baritone after Leonard Warren died. He had performed Macbeth with Leonie Rysanek at the Met earlier that year. He brings his usual crisp diction to the role. Other baritones may have a more caressing tone in the Act Four aria, but Colzani knows what he's doing.Shuard is an audience favorite (she receives an ovation after her first aria) and builds from there. There is nothing in the role she can't handle either vocally or dramatically. All right, she ducks the written D-flat at the end of the Sleepwalking Scene; she probably didn't want to risk it (she sings it in her 1960 Covent Garden performance with Gobbi). Wilderman is a superb Banco. Zampieri is not quite at his best as Macduff, but his Act Four is most persuasive. A young Carlo Cossutta makes a strong impression as Malcolm. Previtali makes very few cuts (no ballet in Act Three). The chorus is superb. Great sound too!