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Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Nicola Rescigno, Magda Olivero, Renato Cioni

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2008-09-09

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Performers: Borrelli, Annamaria; Cadoni, Fernanda; Carleo, Mario; Caruso, Mariano; Cioffi, Mario; Cioni, Renato; Giannini, Aldo; Olivero, Magda; Zanasi, Mario
Conductors: Rescigno, Nicola

"Although the term 'legendary' is all too frequently coined, its usage is both appropriate and justified when describing Magda Olivero. She was an unorthodox soprano...continue...

Puccini: Manon Lescaut

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2008-03-11

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Performers: Bosco, Carlo del; Casarini, Gianfranco; Domingo, Placido; Federici, Franco; Fioravanti, Giulio; Lorenzi, Ermanno; Mariotti, Alfredo; Olivero, Magda; Ricciardi, Franco
Conductors: Santi, Nello
Ensemble: Verona Teatro Arena Orchestra

Perhaps the greatest May-December match-up in opera recording, this thrilling live performance of Manon Lescaut stars tenor Placido Domingo near the beginning of his career,...continue...

Grand Tier - Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur / Rossi, Olivero

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2007-10-09

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur
Performers: Bastianini, Ettore; Caruso, Mariano; Cassinelli, Antonio; Corelli, Franco; di Stasio, Anna; Ercolani, Renato; Frati, Augusto; Olivero, Magda; Simionato, Giulietta; Zerbini, Rosanna
Conductors: Rossi, Mario

Fancesco Cilea was one of the "minor masters" of Italian opera. His masterpiece is 'Adriana Lecouvreur,' a work that, ever since its Milan premiere starring...continue...

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...

Catalani: La Wally / Scaglia, Olivero, Zaccaria, Zanini

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-06-13

Works: Alfredo Catalani: La Wally
Performers: Carroli, Silvano; Farina, Ida; Foiani, Giovanni; Olivero, Magda; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]; Zambon, Amadeo; Zannini, Laura
Conductors: Scaglia, Ferruccio
Ensemble: Bergamo Teatro Donizetti Chorus

Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893) was a talented composer who perhaps lived at the wrong time. He came along at the end of Verdi's career and the...continue...

Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Santi, Domingo, Olivero, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2005-09-20

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Performers: Bosco, Carlo del; Casarini, Gianfranco; Domingo, Placido; Federici, Franco; Fioravanti, Giulio; Lorenzi, Ermanno; Mariotti, Alfredo; Olivero, Magda; Ricciardi, Franco
Conductors: Santi, Nello
Ensemble: Verona Teatro Arena Orchestra

"This set was recorded live in Verona in 1970, when Placido Domingo was still barely known, and it captures him in fantastically exciting form -...continue...

Rota: Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze / Boncompagni

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2005-01-04

Works: Nino Rota: Il Capella di paglia de Firenze (The Italian Straw Hat), opera
Performers: Crivellari, Dolores; Davia, Federico; Devia, Mariella; Gimenez, Edoardo; Gonzalez, Manuel; Moesen, Katarina; Olivero, Magda; Pedroni, Augusto; Schmiedner, Hartmut; Schreurs, Jean-Jacques; Socci, Gian...
Conductors: Boncompagni, Elio
Ensemble: Brussels Théâtre de la Monnaie Chorus

"...The music is tuneful, conservatively harmonized, immediately attractive, and highly colorful. If this set came with a libretto (almost a requirement for a comic opera)...continue...

Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur/ Rossi, Corelli, Olivero, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2004-06-08

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur
Performers: Bastianini, Ettore; Caruso, Mariano; Cassinelli, Antonio; Corelli, Franco; di Stasio, Anna; Ercolani, Renato; Frati, Augusto; Olivero, Magda; Simionato, Giulietta; Zerbini, Rosanna
Conductors: Rossi, Mario

The masterpiece of composer Francesco Cilea, 'Adriana Lecouvreur' premiered in 1902 with Caruso in the tenor lead. It has remained a standard in Italy, though...continue...

Alfano: Risurrezione / Boncompagni, Olivero, Gismondo, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-11-04

Works: Franco Alfano: Risurrezione
Performers: Allegri, Maria Grazia; Boyer, Antonio; Cadoni, Fernanda; Casolari, Egidio; Condo, Nucci; di Stasio, Anna; Gismondo, Giuseppe; Magrini, Vera; Olivero, Magda; Pace, Patrizia; Sunara, Maja
Conductors: Boncompagni, Elio
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin

Great Voices of the Past - The Sopranos

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

Works: Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; La forza del destino; Otello; Un ballo in maschera; Aida, opera; I vespri siciliani; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; L...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Anzellotti, Alba; Beckmann, Friedel; Bellinzona, E.; Boninsegna, Celestina; Boue, Geori; Caniglia, Maria; Cherkasskaya, Marianne; Collard, Andre; Danco, Suzanne; Destinn, Emmy; Eames...
Conductors: Tansini, Ugo; Stiedry, Fritz; Panizza, Héctor; Kraus, Richard; Gui, Vittorio; Sabajno, Carlo; Berrettoni, Umberto; Briez, Georges; Koussevitzky, Sergey; Lehár, Franz; Pitt, Percy; Dobroven,...

Assemble three dozen operatic sopranos on one album and MAMA MIA! You have a combination that practically screams 'bada bing'! These are the original, one-and-only,...continue...

Wolf-Ferrari: I quattro rusteghi / Gracis, Olivero, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-05-06

Works: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: I quattro rusteghi, opera
Performers: Adani, Mariella; Barbieri, Fedora; Carlin, Mario; Cesari, Renato; Lazzari, Agostino; Maddalena, Alessandro; Mariotti, Alfredo; Olivero, Magda; Rossi-Lemeni, Nicola; Vincenzi, Edda
Conductors: Gracis, Ettore
Ensemble: Turin Teatro Regio Orchestra

Great Voices of the Past - Opera's Greates Heroines

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

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Lohengrin; Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Rigoletto; Otello; Il Trovatore; Gioachino Rossini: I...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Boninsegna, Celestina; Caniglia, Maria; Destinn, Emmy; Flagstad, Kirsten; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Maynor, Dorothy; Melba, Nellie; Monte, Toti Dal; Muller, Maria; Muzio, Claudia; Oliver...
Conductors: Tansini, Ugo; Berrettoni, Umberto; Robertson, James; Rother, Artur; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Koussevitzky, Sergey; Pitt, Percy; Cellini, Renato; Dobroven, Issay

The perfect companion to Opera d'Oro's previous release, "Opera's Greatest Heroes"! The heroines of opera have not had an easy path to victory; most of...continue...

Puccini's Masterworks / Björling, Gigli, Melba, Muzio, et al

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

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Suor Angelica; La Fanciulla del West; Tosca; Turandot
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Baronti, Duilio; Björling, Jussi; Borgioli, Armando; Bori, Lucrezia; Caniglia, Maria; Conti, Gino; Del Monaco, Mario; Destinn, Emmy; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Gigli, Beniamino; McCo...

Puccini: Il Tabarro / Delogu, Olivero, Fioravanti, et al

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2001-02-06

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Il tabarro (The Cloak), opera
Performers: Bottion, Aldo; Fioravanti, Giulio; Formichini, Dino; Frati, Augusto; Olivero, Magda; Rafanelli, Flora
Conductors: Deloghu, Gaetano

Giordano: Fedora / Annovazzi, di Stefano, Olivero, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-11-14

Works: Umberto Giordano: Fedora
Performers: Clabassi, Plinio [Bass Vocal]; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Mari, Carla; Mazzini, Guido; Mineo, Andrea; Olivero, Magda; Pedroni, Augusto; Rocco, Giovanna di; Stasio, Dino Di
Conductors: Annovazzi, Napoleone
Ensemble: Lucca Teatro del Giglio Orchestra

Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Veltri, Olivero, Tucker, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 1999-06-15

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Performers: Olivero, Magda; Tucker, Richard [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Veltri, Michelangelo

Recitals - An Evening with Franco Corelli

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 1999-05-18

Works: Jules Massenet: Werther; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Gaetano Donizetti: Poliuto; Giuseppe Verdi: La battaglia di Leg...
Performers: Callas, Maria; Corelli, Franco; Olivero, Magda; Stella, Antonietta [Soprano Vocals]; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Rossi, Mario; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Matacic, Lovro von; Votto, Antonino; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea