Verdi, Giuseppe > Erede, Alberto

Magic Verdi - highlights of Aida, Otello, Don Carlo, La Forza & Un ballo / Caballé, Freni, Domingo, Carreras, Gobbi, Muti,Giulini, Karajan

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-04-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Un ballo in maschera; Falstaff; La forza del destino; Don Carlo; Otello
Performers: Arroyo, Martina; Baltsa, Agnes; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bumbry, Grace; Caballe, Montserrat; Cappuccilli, Piero; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Christoff, Boris; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Domingo, Placido; Freni, M...
Conductors: Kurtz, Efrem; Muti, Riccardo; Erede, Alberto; Guadagno, Anton; Gardelli, Lamberto; Ceccato, Aldo; Karajan, Herbert von; Semkov, Jerzy; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Ferraris, Franco

The name Verdi is synonymous with Italian opera. No other composer embodies all the fascination and passion of Italian music drama like Verdi. The special...continue...

50 Best Verdi: CD One: Tenors & Baritones; CD Two: Soparnos & Mezzos; CD Three: Choruses

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Macbeth; Il trovatore; I lombardi alla prima crociata; Don Carlos; Requiem; La forza del destino; Otello; Fals...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Arroyo, Martina; Bella, Benito di; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bonisolli, Franco; Bruson, Renato; Caballé, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Corelli, Franco...
Conductors: Muti, Riccardo; Viotti, Marcello; Patanè, Giuseppe; Rudel, Julius; Erede, Alberto; Karajan, Herbert von; Pappano, Antonio; Gardelli, Lamberto; Barker, John; Pidò, Evelino; Serafin, Tullio; ...

This 3-CD set contains 100 tracks from the most familiar and best-loved works by the iconic Italian operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi, performed by many of...continue...

Portrait of a Legend - 17 arias from Mignon, La Cenerentola, Barber of Seville et al. / Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano (mono)

1 CD / Preiser / 2012-12-11

Works: Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Il Barbiere di Siviglia; L' Italiana in Algeri; Tancredi; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila; Jules M...
Performers: Bastianini, Ettore; Bettarini, Luciano; Pellegrino, Lilliana; Simionato, Giulietta
Conductors: Quadri, Argeo; Rossi, Mario [Management]; Previtali, Fernando; Basile, Arturo; Ghione, Franco; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Erede, Alberto; Sanzogno, Nino; Solti, Sir Georg; Karajan, Herbert von

Born in 1910, Giulietta Simionato had a slow start with her career, but had her big breakthrough at La Scala in 1955. Her workload was...continue...
Recording information: 1949-1960....continue...

Very Best of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-07-26

Works: Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795; Das Lied im Grünen, D 917/Op. 115 no 1; Der Tod und das Mädchen, D 531/Op. 7 no 3; Du bist die Ruh, D 776/Op. 59 no 3; Der Jüngli...
Performers: Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; McCracken, James [Tenor Vocal]; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Sawallisch, Wolfgang [Conductor/Piano]; Veyron-Lacroix, Robert
Conductors: Szell, George; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Erede, Alberto; Barbirolli, John
Ensemble: Academy Of St Martin In The Fields; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berliner Symphoniker; London Symphony Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra

Renata Tebaldi Sings Puccini & Verdi Favourites

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-03-08

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La Forza del Destino; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La Boheme; Turandot; Madama Butterfly; Tosca
Performers: Bergonzi, Carlo; Del Monaco, Mario; Sordello, Enzo; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Molinari-Pradelli, France; Karajan, Herbert von; Erede, Alberto; Serafin, Tullio

Legendary Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi presents a number of her greatest and most popular roles, the recording as exceptional as her voice....continue...

Gianni Poggi II

1 CD / Preiser / 2010-10-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; Il trovatore; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chenier; Fedora; Rodolfo Falvo: Dicitencello vuie; C.O. Lardini: Voce'e no...
Performers: Argine, Simona dall'; Neri, Giulio; Poggi, Gianni; Signore, Gino del; Ticozzi, Ebe
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Nicello, Ernesto; Capuana, Franco

This is the second volume on Preiser devoted to this popular singer's recordings. Given his undisputed vocal abilities, he would no doubt be considered an...continue...

100 Best Verdi

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-06-08

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; La Traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Macbeth; Il trovatore; Il Trovatore; I Lombardi alla prima crociata; Don Carlos; Requiem; La forza del destino...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Andreolli, Florindo; Arroyo, Martina; Baltsa, Agnes; Barbieri, Fedora; Bella, Benito di; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bernardi, Giuliano; Bonisolli, Franco; Borgato, ...
Conductors: Muti, Riccardo; Viotti, Marcello; Patanè, Giuseppe; Rudel, Julius; Erede, Alberto; Ferraris, Franco; Karajan, Herbert von; Pappano, Antonio; Gardelli, Lamberto; Barker, John; Pidò, Evelino;...

This 6-CD set contains 100 tracks from the most familiar and best-loved works by the Italian operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), performed by many of...continue...

Godfathers Of Opera

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-04-20

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La Traviata; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Requiem; Salvatore Cardillo: Core' ngrato; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Tosca; Turandot; Madame Butterfly; Edua...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Blanc, Ernest; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Caruso, Enrico; Corelli, Franco; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Domingo, Placido; Gedda, Nicolai; Gigli, Beniamino; Gobbi, Tito; Kraus, Alfredo [T...
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Mingardo, Raffaele; Bartoletti, Bruno; Kohn, Eugene; Levine, James; Goehr, Walter; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Guarino, G.M.; Schippers, Thomas; Ferraris, Franc...

Everyone needs a Godfather to look up to and today's crop of young singers need only review the pantheon of greats that came before them....continue...

Icon: Tito Gobbi / The Complete Solo Recordings

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-03-23

Works: Francesco Cilèa: L'Arlesiana; Adriana Lecouvreur; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà, opera; Pagliacci; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo; Otello...
Performers: Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Arie, Raffaele; Callas, Maria; Canali, Anna Maria; Caselli, Dario; Clabassi, Plinio [Bass Vocal]; Cornoldi, Claudio; de los Angeles, Victoria; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Dickie...
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Erede, Alberto; Robertson, James; Green, Philip; Susskind, Walter; Braithwaite, Warwick; Olivieri, Dino; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Bizzelli, Annibale; Serafin, Tullio; Santini, Ga...

This 5-CD set, devoted to the outstanding Italian baritone Tito Gobbi, is a further release in the EMI Classics ICON series. The bulk of this...continue...

Rivals - Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi

1 CD / Fono / 2010-02-12

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La Bohème; Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore; Aida, opera; La traviata; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; I Puritani, opera
Performers: Callas, Maria; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Sanzogno, Nino; Votto, Antonino; Basile, Arturo; Mugnai, Umberto; Picco, Guido
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Mexico City Palacio de Bellas Artes Orchestra; Suisse Romande Orchestra; Teatro alla Scala Orchestra Professori

Verdi: Luisa Miller / Alberto Erede

2 CD / Orfeo / 2010-02-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller
Conductors: Erede, Alberto

Recording information: Wiener Staatsoper (01/23/1974)....continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit: Afro Poli

1 CD / Preiser / 2009-10-13

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; August...
Performers: Badini, Ernesto; Corena, Fernando; Donaggio, Luciano; Nessi, Giuseppe; Noni, Alda; Petrella, Clara; Poli, Afro; Rizzoli, Bruna; Saraceni, Adelaide; Signore, Gino del; Stabile, Mariano; Valletti, Cesa...
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Nastrucci, Gino; Ghione, Franco; Erede, Alberto; Basile, Arturo; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Parodi, Armando La Rosa; Olivieri, Dino

The baritone Afro Polis was born in Pisa in 1902. His voice had neither an unusually big sound nor a particularly beautiful timbre. Nevertheless, he...continue...

Gioacchino Rossini

4 CD / Gala / 2009-08-31

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Petite Messe solennelle; Armida; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Don Carlo; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Performers: Berdini, Giuseppe [Tenor Vocal]; Callas, Maria; Dominguez, Oralia; Filipeschi, Mairo [Tenor Vocal]; Frosini, Mario; Gorini, Gino; Grandi, Margherita; Mancini, Caterina; Panerai, Rolando; Petri, Mario...
Conductors: Lohoff, Willem; Fasano, Renato; Serafin, Tullio; Baroni, Giuseppe; Santini, Gabriele; Erede, Alberto; Boult, Adrian

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Joseph Gostic, Dusan Georgevic

1 CD / Preiser / 2009-07-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Aida, opera; La traviata; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Bedrich Smetana: Bartered Bride, B 143/T 93; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin; ...
Performers: Georgevic, Dusan; Gostic, Josef
Conductors: Sachs, Milan; Krauss, Clemens; Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: Croatian Opera Orchestra; Orchestra De La Suisse Romande; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The leading tenor at the Zagreb Opera from 1937 throughout his career, Josef Gostic became one of the leading dramatic tenors in 1950 with the...continue...

Festival of the Primadonnas

3 CD / Profil Edition Gunter Hanssler / 2009-06-30

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Turandot; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Jacques Offenbach: ...
Performers: Anders, Peter; Barabas, Sari; Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Callas, Maria; Cebotari, Maria; Gedda, Nicolai; Groh, Herbert Ernst; Grummer, Elisabeth; Koth, Erika; Kupper, Annelies; Losch, Liselotte; ...
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Rudolf, Max; Böhm, Karl; Prohaska, Felix; Schuchter, Wilhelm; Santini, Gabriele; Erede, Alberto; Weigert, Herman; Karajan, Herbert von; Krips, Josef; Lehmann, Fritz; Reiner, Fri...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Marko Rothmüller

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-09-09

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte, K 588; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier;...
Performers: Gyr, Suzanne; Rothmuller, Marko
Conductors: Robertson, James; Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

Marko Rothmuller (1908-1993) was a citizen of the world but occupied an outstanding position in German musical life. Born in Croatia, he moved to Vienna...continue...

Prima Voce - Hilde Güden

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-09-09

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Idomeneo; Il rè pastore, K 208; Exsultate jub...
Performers: Gulda, Friedrich; Jurinac, Sena; Poell, Alfred; Protti, Aldo [Baritone Vocals]; Reining, Maria; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors: Krips, Josef; Böhm, Karl; Kleiber, Erich; Krauss, Clemens; Erede, Alberto; Black, Stanley

It becomes evident from the first note that Hilde Guden possessed a truly beautiful vocal timbre. Her singing of the various arias from 'Don Giovanni',...continue...

50 Years of the Deutsche Oper Am Rhein - Live Recordings 1956-2006

2 CD / ARS Productions / 2008-09-04

Works: Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60; Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Performers: Hollweg, Ilse; Imdahl, Heinz; Zadek, Hilde
Conductors: Quennet, Arnold; Erede, Alberto

Icon - Giuseppe Di Stefano - Puccini: Tosca; Verdi, Bellini, Bizet, Mascagni, etc / Callas, Gobbi, et al

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-09-02

Works: Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Jules Massenet: Manon; Francesco Cilèa: L'Arlesiana; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; La forza del destino; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Otello; Gaetano Do...
Performers: Arie, Raffaele; Callas, Maria; Canali, Anna Maria; Carteri, Rosanna; Dawson, Herbert; de los Angeles, Victoria; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Ercolani, Renato; Forti, Carlo; Gerbino, Giuse; Luise, Melchiorre...
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Serafin, Tullio; De Sabata, Victor; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Votto, Antonino; Karajan, Herbert von; Olivieri, Dino; Tonini, Antonio

The Italian tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, who died on March 3, 2008, aged 86, was one of the finest opera singers of his day, blessed...continue...

Renata Tebaldi - Voice of Gold - Puccini, Verdi, Cilea, etc

1 CD / Regis Records / 2008-07-10

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Il trovatore; Aida, opera; Otello; La traviata; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Turandot; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Francesco Cilèa: Adrian...
Performers: Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Molinari-Pradelli, F.; Erede, Alberto; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Geneva Grand Theatre Orchestra; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra

Prima Voce - Tito Gobbi

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-03-11

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Ve...
Performers: Gobbi, Tito; Monti, Nicola
Conductors: Berrettoni, Umberto; Robertson, James; Erede, Alberto; Santini, Gabriele; Braithwaite, Warwick
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra

For this compilation, Prima Voce has chosen early 78 rpm recordings that capture Tito Gobbi’s voice at its most lyrical, persuasive, and attractive. Very few...continue...

Christa Ludwig: Live Recordings, 1955-1994

3 CD / Orfeo / 2008-02-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op 60; Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65; Capriccio, ...
Performers: Behrens, Hildegard; Beirer, Hans; Berry, Walter; Bonisolli, Franco; Casa, Lisa della; Cathy Berns-Rund; Chauvet, Guy; Donch, Karl; Fassbaender, Brigitte [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Flossman, Gilels; Gall...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl; Krips, Josef; Erede, Alberto; Karajan, Herbert von; Ludwig, Leopold; Prêtre, Georges; Heger, Robert; Maazel, Lorin; Bernstein, Leonard; Stein, Horst; Albrecht, Gerd; Mehta, Zubi...

The # 1 Opera Album Vol 2 / Bartoli, Pavarotti, Price, et al

2 CD / Decca / 2007-10-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Aida, opera; I vespri siciliani; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Luisa Miller; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; La Rondine; Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Wolfgang Am...
Performers: Bar, Olaf; Bartoli, Cecilia; Battle, Kathleen; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bjorling, Jussi; Bonney, Barbara; Caballe, Montserrat; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Cerquetti...
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo; Sinopoli, Giuseppe; Solti, Sir Georg; Karajan, Herbert von; Leinsdorf, Erich; Östman, Arnold; Marriner, Sir Neville; Böhm, Karl; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Bonynge, Richa...

The #1 Opera Album II features the best-loved and most popular arias sung by an all-time roster of the greatest opera stars - including tracks...continue...

10 Great Tenors

10 CD / Membran / 2007-08-14

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Il Duca d'Alba; Lucia di Lammermoor; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth; Rigoletto; Un ballo in mas...
Performers: Anders, Peter; Bjorling, Jussi; Callas, Maria; Caruso, Enrico; de Luca, Giuseppe; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Ebert, Harry; Gedda, Nicolai; Gigli, Beniamino; Jurinac, Sena; Lanza, Mario ...
Conductors: Berrettoni, Umberto; Goehr, Walter; Barbirolli, John; Zamboni, Rainaldo; Korngold, Erich Wolfgang; Lehár, Franz; Rother, Artur; Marszalek, Franz; Ackermann, Otto; Leitner, Ferdinand; Ludwig, Leo...

Ultimate Opera - The Essential Masterpieces

5 CD / Decca / 2007-06-12

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; Tosca; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Turandot; La Rondine; La Fanciulla del West; Manon Lescaut; Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; La tr...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Bacquier, Gabriel; Bastianini, Ettore; Berbie, Jane; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bjorling, Jussi; Borthayre, Jean; Braun, Victor; Bumbry, Grace; Burrowes,...
Conductors: Gardelli, Lamberto; Lewis, Henry; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Maazel, Lorin; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Bernet, Dietfried; Solti, Sir Georg; Patanè, Giuseppe; Serafin, Tullio; Downes, Edward; Gibson,...

"Decca doesn't stint in offering some of its most outstanding performances -- the star-studded list of singers includes Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Marilyn...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Luigi Infantino

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-06-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La traviata; Requiem Mass; Georges Bizet: Agnus Dei, for voice & piano (or orchestr...
Performers: Cockerill, John; Guerrini, Adriana; Infantino, Luigi; Silveri, Paolo
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Rankl, Karl; Olivieri, Dino; Patanè, Franco; Bellezza, Vincenzo; Martin, Ray

Luigi Infantino possessed a wonderfully dignified voice, described by the critics as "expressive, flexible, round and lyrical." Another example of the tenor di grazia, he...continue...

Paperback Opera - Verdi: Nabucco / Previtali, Silveri, et al

2 CD / Preiser / 2007-05-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Ernani; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Ave Maria
Performers: Binci, Mario; Cassinelli, Antonio; Francardi, Licinio; Gaggi, Albino; Gatti, Gabriella; Mancini, Caterina; Preziosa, Beatrice; Silveri, Paolo
Conductors: Previtali, Fernando; Braithwaite, Warwick; Erede, Alberto; Rignold, Hugo; Rankl, Karl; Patanè, Franco
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome

This release in the Paperback Opera series focuses attention on the acclaimed Verdi bass Paolo Silveri (1913-2001). He began his career in 1944 that took...continue...

Margherita Grandi sings Verdi

1 CD / Testament / 2006-12-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth; Don Carlos; Il Trovatore
Performers: Frank, Ernst; Grandi, Margherita; McKinley, Andrew; Midgeley, Walter; Tajo, Italo; Terry, Vera; Thomas, Edward; Valentino, Francesco; Vivian, Robert
Conductors: Goldschmidt, Berthold; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Erede, Alberto; Goehr, Walter
Ensemble: ; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

"Margherita Grandi, Australian by birth, Italian by musical upbringing, was something of a hit-and-miss meteor in her stuttering career, badly affected by two world wars....continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giuseppe Campora

1 CD / Preiser / 2006-12-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Falstaff; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Francesco Cilèa: L'Arl...
Performers: Calò, Gino; Campora, Giuseppe; Corridori, Anita; Forcato, Maria; Guerrini, Adriana; Pirazzini, Miriam; Vocals], Anselmo Colzani [Baritone
Conductors: Parodi, Armando La Rosa; Erede, Alberto

Here Campora is audibly an authentic tenore lirico spinto, an Italian tenor between two genres with an attractive, youthful timbre, excellent vocal placement, solid singing...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Aldo Protti

1 CD / Preiser / 2006-04-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La traviata; Aida, opera; Otello; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera
Performers: Caselli, Dario; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Del Monaco, Mario; Latinucci, Pier Luigi; Mercuriali, Angelo; Protti, Aldo [Baritone Vocals]; Rossi, Lina; Siepi, Cesare; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Molinari-Pradelli, France
Ensemble: ; Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra; Suisse Romande Orchestra

Many opera lovers will still have vivid memories of this spirited singer, born in Cremona in 1920. His stocky, agile, muscular figure, his striking "diavolo"...continue...

Lebebdige Vergangenheit - Cesare Siepi II

1 CD / Preiser / 2006-04-01

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable; Die Hugenoten; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Ernani; Simon Boccanegra; Don Carlos; Carlos Gome...
Performers: Conley, Eugene; Davidson, Lawrence; Siepi, Cesare; Tagliavini, Ferruccio [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Capuana, Franco; Erede, Alberto; Santini, Gabriele; Cleva, Fausto; Scherman, Thomas

Cesare Siepi is generally considered one of the finest operatic basses from the period after World War II. His voice was characterized by a deep,...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Italo Tajo

1 CD / Preiser / 2005-10-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Mentre ti lascio, o figlia, K 513; Un bacio di mano, K 541; Per questa bella mano, K 612; Così dunque tradi...
Performers: Tajo, Italo; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Busch, Fritz; Erede, Alberto; Rossi, Mario; Previtali, Fernando; Morel, Jean Paul; Cellini, Renato

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Margherita Carosio

1 CD / Preiser / 2005-09-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lammermoo...
Performers: Tagliabue, Carlo; Vocals], Margherita Carosio [Soprano
Conductors: Patanè, Franco; Fistoulari, Anatole; Erede, Alberto; Gennai, Leopoldo Emanuele
Ensemble: ; Philharmonia Orchestra

Il Mito di Renata Tebaldi - Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, etc

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2005-06-04

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore; Aida, opera; La traviata; Otello; Requiem Mass; Giovanna d'Arco; La forza del destino; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Tosca; La Bohème; Charles...
Performers: Bergonzi, Carlo; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Sanzogno, Nino; Toscanini, Arturo; ; Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra; San Francisco Opera Orchestra; Suisse Romande Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Raphaël Arié

1 CD / Preiser / 2005-05-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Don Carlos; Charles Gounod: Faust; Mikhail Glinka: A Life for the Tsar; Modest Mussorgsky: ...
Performers: Arie, Raffaele
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Krips, Josef; Karr, Isidor

Verdi: Luisa Miller / Erede, Sukis, Ludwig, Taddei, et al

2 CD / Ponto Recordings / 2004-05-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller
Performers: Bonisolli, Franco; Giaiotti, Bonaldo; Ludwig, Christa; Nikolova, Milkana; Smith, Malcolm [bass]; Sukis, Lilian; Taddei, Giuseppe
Conductors: Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: Vienna Opera Chorus; Vienna Opera Orchestra

Famous Voices of the Past - Giuseppe Di Stefano

1 CD / Preiser / 2004-03-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Jules Massenet: Manon; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Francesco Cilèa: L'Arlesiana; Sicilian Traditional: A la Barcillunisia; Can...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Cehanovsky, George; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Moscona, Nicola; Munsel, Patrice; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Cellini, Renato; Consiglio, Mario
Ensemble: Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Verdi: Aida / Erede, Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Corena, et al

2 CD / Pearl / 2003-04-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera
Performers: Caselli, Dario; Corena, Fernando; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Del Monaco, Mario; Protti, Aldo [Baritone Vocals]; Stignani, Ebe [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giuseppe Valdengo

1 CD / Preiser / 2002-09-01

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Mattinata; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Charles Gounod: Faust; Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Paolo Tosti: Canzoni-stornelli (3); T'amo ancora; Romanze (3); La serenata...
Performers: Valdengo, Giuseppe
Conductors: Erede, Alberto

Debut Series - Giuseppe Di Stefano - My First Record

1 CD / Fono / 2002-08-06

Works: Jules Massenet: Manon; Elégie for Cello and Piano; Werther; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Requiem Mass; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La Bohème; Francesco Cilèa...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Moser, Edoardo; Warren, Leonard
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Cellini, Renato; Tieri, Emidio; Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; NBC Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Teatro alla Scala Orchestra Professori

Puccini: La Bohème; Arias / Erede, Tebaldi, et al

2 CD / Pearl / 2002-04-23

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Aida, opera; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Alfredo Catalani: L...
Performers: Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Sanzogno, Nino

The Great Renata Tebaldi

2 CD / Decca Import / 2002-01-15

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; Tosca; Suor Angelica; Il tabarro (The Cloak), opera; La Fanciulla del West; Turandot; La bohème; Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; Alfredo Catalani: La ...
Performers: Bastianini, Ettore; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bumbry, Grace; Caruso, Mariano; Cesari, Renato; Del Monaco, Mario; Fioravanti, Giulio; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; MacNeil, Cornell; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Pog...
Conductors: Gardelli, Lamberto; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Cleva, Fausto; Capuana, Franco; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Serafin, Tullio; Erede, Alberto; Karajan, Herbert von; Solti, Sir Georg; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; ...
Ensemble: ; Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra; Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra; Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Chorus; Santa Cecilia Academy Rome...

This new 2-CD collection commemorates Renata Tebaldi's legendary career as she celebrates her 80th birthday. It includes over 2 1/2 hours of popular arias from...continue...

The #1 Tenor Album / Alagna, Bergonzi, Björling, et al

2 CD / Decca / 2001-07-10

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Luisa Miller; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Tosca; La Fanciulla del West; Turandot; Madama Butterfly; Georges Bi...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Aragall, Giacomo; Bailey, Norman; Bergonzi, Carlo; Björling, Jussi; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Corelli, Franco; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Domingo, Placi...
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard; Chailly, Riccardo; Solti, Sir Georg; Pidò, Evelino; Serafin, Tullio; Erede, Alberto; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Böhm, Karl; Maazel, Lorin; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Patan...

Essential Verdi - 40 of His Greatest Masterpieces

2 CD / Decca Import / 2001-02-13

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Nabucco; La forza del destino; La traviata; I vespri siciliani; Il Trovatore; Aida, opera; Don Carlos; Ernani; Un ballo in maschera; Luisa Miller; Requiem Mass; Otello; Mac...
Performers: Antoniak, Mieczyslaw; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bjorling, Jussi; Borodina, Olga; Bruson, Renato; Caballe, Montserrat; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Chiara, Maria; Domingo, Placido; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; ...
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard; Solti, Sir Georg; Gergiev, Valery; Pritchard, John; Santi, Nello; Davis, Colin; Haitink, Bernard; Karajan, Herbert von; Erede, Alberto; Downes, Edward; Chailly, Riccardo; Sinopoli, ...
Ensemble: Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Florence Maggio Musicale Chorus; Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra; Kirov Theater...

2001 is the Verdi Year - Verdi's 100th Anniversary. "Essential Verdi" is packed with 40 selections from the great Verdi operas sung by the greatest...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Mariano Stabile

1 CD / Preiser / 1999-11-09

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Otello; Falstaff; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Giacomo Puccin...
Performers: Baccaloni, Salvatore; Baracchi, Aristide; Boscacci, Romeo; Donaggio, Luciano; Lawrence, Martin [Comedy]; Nessi, Giuseppe; Pagliarini, Maria Pia; Poli, Afro; Rubadi, Erminia; Stabile, Mariano; Venturi...
Conductors: Erede, Alberto

Four Famous Italian Baritones - Stabile, Reali, et al

1 CD / Preiser / 1999-04-20

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff; Ernani; Otello; Rigoletto; La traviata; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Zazà, opera; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; F...
Performers: Donaggio, Luciano; Nessi, Giuseppe; Poli, Afro; Prandelli, Giacinto; Reali, Antenore; Silveri, Paolo; Stabile, Mariano; Tagliabue, Carlo
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Basile, Arturo; Berrettoni, Umberto; Parodi, Armando La Rosa; Patanè, Franco; Rignold, Hugo; Robinson, Stanford

Verdi: Otello / Erede, Monaco, Tucci, Gobbi, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 1998-08-25

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
Performers: Clabassi, Plinio [Bass Vocal]; Del Monaco, Mario; di Stasio, Anna; Gobbi, Tito; Julius, Gabriele de; Okamura, Takao; Tucci, Gabriella
Conductors: Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: NHK Symphony Chorus Tokyo

Hilde Güden - Wie die Welt sie kannte

1 CD / Preiser / 1998-06-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Il rè pastore, K 208; Idomeneo; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Exsultate jubilate, K 165 (...
Performers: Barylli, Walter; Boskovsky, Willi; Gueden, Hilde [Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Krauss, Clemens; Loibner, Wilhelm
Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Aureliano Pertile Vol II / Sabajno, Erede, Molajoli, etc

1 CD / Pearl / 1996-07-23

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; Un ballo in maschera; La forza del destino; Otello; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, ...
Performers: Baromeo, Cesare; Ferraris, Ines; Franci, Benvenuto; Pertile, Aureliano; Righetti, Antonio
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Nastrucci, Gino; Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Aureliano Pertile Vol 3

1 CD / Preiser / 1996-05-21

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Iris; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, ope...
Performers: Pertile, Aureliano; Vocals], Gina Cigna [Soprano
Conductors: Molajoli, Lorenzo; Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra