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Opera Obsession! Act IV - Opera d'Oro's Greatest Hits

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2007-09-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Ernani; Macbeth; Rigoletto; Antonin Dvorák: Rusalka; Wo...
Performers: Brilioth, Helge; Caballé, Montserrat; Corelli, Franco; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Domingo, Placido; Dominguez, Oralia; Fassbaender, Brigitte [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Freni, Mirella; Fusco, Cecilia; ...

The fourth volume in Opera d'Oro's best-selling super-budget series celebrating the very best tracks from the vast Opera d'Oro catalog! Features the greatest singers of...continue...

Meyerbeer: L'Africana / Muti, Norman, Luchetti, Guelfi

3 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2007-02-13

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin
Performers: Casarini, Gianfranco; Ferrin, Agostino; Formichini, Dino; Guelfi, Giangiacomo; Luchetti, Veriano; Matteini, Giuliana; Norman, Jessye; Rinaudo, Mario; Sighele, Mietta; Vivo, Graziano del
Conductors: Muti, Riccardo

Live performance of this rarely-performed opera, Florence, 1971. Only budget recording on CD! Meyerbeer died before L'africana, his last opera, was quite finished. He was...continue...

Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots / Maerzendorfer, Gedda, Equiluz

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-08-08

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten
Performers: Aichberger, Ewald; Equiluz, Kurt [Tenor Vocal]; Farres, Pedro; Gedda, Nicolai; Illavsky, Ladislav; Neukirch, Harald; Petkov, Dimiter; Rugtvedt, Unni; Schenk, Manfred; Scovotti, Jeanette; Shane, Rita;...
Conductors: Marzendorfer, Ernst

This live broadcast from Vienna in 1971 brings together one of the most outstanding casts ever assembled for this rarely heard opera, a situation due...continue...

Legendary Performances of Franco Corelli - 7 Operas

14 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-03-14

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Turandot; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Gaetano Donizetti: Poliuto; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovat...
Performers: Bastianini, Ettore; Callas, Maria; Capecchi, Renato; Carbonari, Virgilio; Carlin, Mario; Cassinelli, Antonio; Corelli, Franco; Cossotto, Fiorenza; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Dutoit, Laurence; Equ...
Conductors: Simonetto, Alfredo; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Matacic, Lovro von; Votto, Antonino; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Karajan, Herbert von

Franco Corelli (1921-2003), by virtue of his thrilling tenor voice and handsome stage presence, was one of the most popular opera singers on the international...continue...

Great Voices of the Past - Favorite French Excerpts

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-07-02

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; The Pearl Fishers, opera; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Edouard Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Jules Massenet: Il re di...
Performers: Aumonier, Paul; Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Civil, Pablo; Clement, Edmond; Destinn, Emmy; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Homer, Louise; Journet,...
Conductors: Rapée, Erno; Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Erede, Alberto; Molajoli, Lorenzo

The first-ever budget priced album of great singers in French opera features selections from all the most famous titles, as well as a few rarities...continue...

Opera Obsession! Act II - Opera d'Oro's Greatest Hits

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-02-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo; Così fan tutte, K 588; Giuseppe Verdi: I ma...
Performers: Blachut, Beno; Bruscantini, Sesto; Caballé, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Cappuccilli, Piero; Channes, Muriel de; Ciannella, Giuliano; Domingo, Placido; Freni, Mirella; Gedda, Nicolai; Harper, He...

This second volume of "Opera Obsession!" brings more great hits from the vast Opear d'Oro catalog of live opera, most of them issued for the...continue...

Meyerbeer: Roberto il Diavolo / Sanzogno, Christoff, et al

3 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-09-03

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable
Performers: Antonini, Giovanni [Bass Vocal]; Christoff, Boris; Ferrarini, Gianluca; Formichini, Dino; Frati, Augusto; Frosini, Mario; Giorgetti, Giorgio; Guagni, Enzo; Malagu, Stefania; Manganotti, Gianfranco; M...
Conductors: Sanzogno, Nino
Ensemble: Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra

"Robert le diable" was one of the greatest hits in opera history, and made the fortune of the Paris Opera in 1831. After World War...continue...

Great Voices of the Past - The 30 Tenors

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-08-06

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; La bohème; Tosca; La Fanciulla del West; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Requiem Mass; Eduardo...
Performers: Anselmi, Giuseppe; Björling, Jussi; Bonci, Alessandro; Caruso, Enrico; Clement, Edmond; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Fleta, Miguel; Gigli, Beniamino; Jadlowker, Hermann; Kozlovsky, I...
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils; Rother, Artur; Bourdon, Rosario; Sabajno, Carlo; Elmendorff, Karl; Orlov, Alexander; Gurlitt, Manfred; Rapée, Erno; Erede, Alberto; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Quadri, Argeo; Barbiro...
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Orchester der Staatsoper Dresden; Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano; Radio City Music Hall Orchestra

Opera d'Oro has gathered together 30 of the greatest male voices of the last century to each belt out an aria on "The 30 Tenors"....continue...

Recitals - Giulietta Simionato - Arias & Scenes

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-06-01

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Tancredi; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Bolena; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Aida, opera
Performers: Bastianini, Ettore; Clabassi, Plinio [Bass Vocal]; Corelli, Franco; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Simionato, Giulietta; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Sanzogno, Nino; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Matacic, Lovro von

Great Voices of the Past - Opera's Greatest Heroes

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-04-02

Works: Jean-Baptiste Lully: Amadis, LWV 63; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Carl Maria von W...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Bampton, Rose; Björling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Clement, Edmond; de Luca, Giuseppe; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Fleta, Miguel; Gigli, Beniamino; Lehmann, Lotte; Lore...

Great Voices of the Past - Opera's Super Villains

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-04-02

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Il Trovatore; Ernani; Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; I vespri siciliani; Un ballo in maschera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Don Giovanni;...
Performers: Alpar, Gitta; Bechi, Gino; Björling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Destinn, Emmy; Granforte, Apollo; Hasslo, Hugo; Herrmann, Josef; Pasero, Tancredi; Pertile, Aureliano; Pinza, Ezio;...

Recitals - Marilyn Horne - Arias & Scenes

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2001-10-30

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Guidò Marte i nostri passi, for tenor, chorus & orchestra (insertion aria for Niccolin...
Performers: de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Gedda, Nicolai; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Fisher, John; Lewis, Henry; Franci, Carlo; Schippers, Thomas
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra

These recordings of America's leading mezzo-soprano from the late 1960s and early 1970s show her in the prime of her early career performing some of...continue...

Recitals - Giulietta Simionato Vol 1

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-08-15

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Tancredi; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten
Performers: Corelli, Franco; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Simionato, Giulietta
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Sanzogno, Nino; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Recitals - Marilyn Horne Vol 1

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-08-15

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola
Performers: Gedda, Nicolai; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Fisher, John; Lewis, Henry; Franci, Carlo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra

Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots / Sutherland, Corelli, et al

3 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-05-16

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten
Performers: Cassinelli, Antonio; Corelli, Franco; Cossotto, Fiorenza; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Ganzarolli, Wladimiro; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Gullino, Walter; Maionica, Silvio [Bass vocals]...
Conductors: Gavazzeni, Gianandrea

The excuse always given as to why Meyerbeer's brilliant masterpiece is not more often mounted is that seven great singers are needed for the principal...continue...

Meyerbeer: Le Prophète / Horne, Gedda, Lewis, et al

3 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-05-16

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète
Performers: Carmeli, Boris; Gedda, Nicolai; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Hage, Robert Amis el; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Peter, Fritz; Rinaldi, Margherita
Conductors: Lewis, Henry
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

This performance was one of the seminal influences in the Meyerbeer revival, with peerless performances in the two leading roles. Ms. Horne was married to...continue...