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Donizetti: Gemma di Vergy / Gatto, Caballé, Bruson, Casoni

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2008-05-13

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Gemma di Vergy
Performers: Bruson, Renato; Caballe, Montserrat; Casoni, Bianca Maria; Lamberti, Giorgio; Machi, Mario; Rinaudo, Mario
Conductors: Gatto, Armando
Ensemble: Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra

This historic 1975 recording with the great Montserrat Caballe presents the first revival of this once-popular Donizetti opera, which had been unperformed for over seventy...continue...

Puccini: Edgar / Cillario, Luchetti, Sighele, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-04-11

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Edgar, opera
Performers: Casoni, Bianca Maria; Colella, Alfredo; Luchetti, Veriano; Scorsoni, Renzo; Sighele, Mietta
Conductors: Cillario, Carlo Felice
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

In later years Puccini himself disowned 'Edgar,' his second opera, referring to it as a "blunder," and yet even the least efforts of great composers...continue...

Rossini: La gazzetta / Caracciolo, Tajo, Tuccari, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2004-08-03

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La gazzetta, opera
Performers: Borriello, Mario; Casoni, Bianca Maria; Cava, Carlo; Galli, Gianna; Lazzari, Agostino; Monreale, Leonardo; Tajo, Italo; Tuccari, Angelica
Conductors: Caracciolo, Franco
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Naples

Donizetti: Gemma di Vergy / Gatto, Caballé, Bruson, Casoni

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-04-08

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Gemma di Vergy
Performers: Bruson, Renato; Caballe, Montserrat; Casoni, Bianca Maria; Lamberti, Giorgio; Machi, Mario; Rinaudo, Mario
Conductors: Gatto, Armando
Ensemble: Naples Teatro San Carlo Chorus

Little known today, mainly because almost no sopranos other than Mme. Caballe can sing it, "Gemma di Vergy" was for some years in the 19th...continue...

Mascagni: L'amico Fritz / Gavazzeni, Freni, Raimondi, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-02-05

Works: Pietro Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Performers: Carbonari, Virgilio; Casoni, Bianca Maria; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Fiorentini, Mirella; Freni, Mirella; Panerai, Rolando; Raimondi, Gianni
Conductors: Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus

Live performance, Milan, December 7, 1963 of Mascagni's second most famous opera (after Cavalleria rusticana), in a surprisingly different mode. A gentle pastoral tale of...continue...