2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2010-08-10
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Performers:
Gobbi, Tito; Panerai, Rolando; Susca, Vito
A brilliant live performance from Salzburg in 1961. Baritone Tito Gobbi, one of the great singing actors of his era, is indelibly vivid as the...continue...
Recording information: Salzburg (08/19/1961)....continue...
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ODO 7076
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2010-03-09
Works: Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne
Performers:
Bacquier, Gabriel; Falzetti, Nino
Conductors:
Maag, Peter
An exceptional "traditional" performance of this spooky and dream-like opera, dramatically and musically effective, with a fine cast and propulsive conducting. The great Hungarian tenor...continue...
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ODO 7074
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-09-08
Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Performers:
Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Badioli, Carlo; Bruscantini, Sesto; Carbonari, Virgilio; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Forti, Carlo; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Malagu, Stefania
Conductors:
Santini, Gabriele
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
"This performance was recorded live at La Scala on January 20, 1964. Gabriele Santini - who would pass away toward the end of that year...continue...
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ODO 7072
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-05-12
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Belisario, opera
Performers:
Antonini, Giovanni [Bass Vocal]; Carusi, Alfredo; Gencer, Leyla; Grilli, Umberto; Pallini, Rina; Pecile, Mirna; Sebastian, Bruno; Taddei, Giuseppe; Veronese, Augusto; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble:
Venice Teatro la Fenice Chorus
When Leyla Gencer died at age 79 in 2008, the obituary in 'The Guardian' (UK) called her "the greatest Turkish opera singer of the 20th...continue...
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ODO 7064
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-05-12
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aroldo
Performers:
Cecchele, Gianfranco; Gulin, Angeles; Millauro, Carlo; Minetto, Maria; Montefusco, Licinio; Munzi, Marcello; Zanazzo, Alfredo
Conductors:
Rinaldi, Maurizio
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan
Few recordings exist of the sensational artistry of Spanish soprano Angeles Gulin (1939–2002), whose enormous, dark voice was said to have set the crystal chandeliers...continue...
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ODO 7071
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-04-14
Works: Paul Hindemith: Cardillac, opera, Op. 39
Performers:
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Grobe, Donald; Katz, Eberhard; Kirschstein, Leonore; Kohn, Karl Christian; Nett, Willi; Soderstrom, Elisabeth
Conductors:
Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble:
Cologne West German Radio Chorus
The only recording ever made of this 20th-century masterpiece features the towering artistry of Fischer-Dieskau in the title role of a Renaissance goldsmith who murders...continue...
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ODO 7067
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-02-10
Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin
Performers:
Avdeyeva, Larissa; Belov, Eugene; Lemeshev, Sergei; Mikhailov, Igor; Pankov, Georgy; Petrov, Ivan; Petrova, Valentina; Verbitskaya, Yevgenia; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Conductors:
Khaikin, Boris; Sokolov, Andrei
Ensemble:
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus
"This recording made by Melodiya in 1955 captures a remarkable performance of Eugene Onegin with performers from the Bolshoi Opera during one of its golden...continue...
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$23.99
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ODO 7066
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-02-10
Works: Giovanni Pacini: Saffo
Performers:
Bianco, Tito Del; Gencer, Leyla; Guggia, Mario; Maniachi, Vittoria; Mattiucci, Franca; Piacente, Maurizio; Quilico, Louis
Conductors:
Capuana, Franco
Ensemble:
Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra
"The cast of this 1967 performance is excellent, led energetically by Franco Capuana... But of course the center of the revival, and its raison d'etre,...continue...
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ODO 7068
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-02-10
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix
Performers:
Badioli, Carlo; Corsi, Rina; Modesti, Giuseppe; Raimondi, Gianni; Taddei, Giuseppe; Vocals], Margherita Carosio [Soprano
Conductors:
Simonetto, Alfredo
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
Donizetti had written about sixty operas already when he produced 'Linda di Chamounix', the last and best of his works in the semiseria style. It...continue...
$15.99
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ODO 1489
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Igor Stravinsky: Rake's Progress
Performers:
Arie, Raffaele; Cuenod, Hugues; Kraus, Otakar; Rounseville, Robert; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Tangemann, Nell; Tourel, Jennie
Conductors:
Stravinsky, Igor
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
This is a historical recording of the opera's world premiere in 1951, conducted by Stravinsky himself....continue...
$15.99
$13.99
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ODO 1488
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Il Pirata, opera
Performers:
Baratti, Giuseppe; Caballe, Montserrat; Cappuccilli, Piero; Labo, Flaviano; Rafanelli, Flora; Trama, Ugo
Conductors:
Capuana, Franco
Ensemble:
Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra
This is a 1967 live recording from Italy of this early Bellini opera, starring the immortal Montserrat Caballe in the heyday of her magnificent voice....continue...
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ODO 7061
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
Performers:
Alunno, Giandomenico; Binci, Mario; Carlin, Mino; Castellano, Elio; Cavalieri, Anna de; Cecchele, Gianfranco; Frascati, Tommaso; Marimpietri, Lidia; Valdengo, Giuseppe
Conductors:
Scaglia, Ferruccio
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome
There can never be enough recordings of this beloved opera, and this rare one from Radio Italy in 1965 highlights not only the fine tenor...continue...
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$13.99
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ODO 1485
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-09-09
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller
Performers:
Baronti, Duilio; Colarescu, Grazia; Colombo, Scipio; Kelston, Lucy; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo; Pace, Miti Truccato; Vaghi, Giacomo
Conductors:
Rossi, Mario
"Very much a collector's item, primarily on account of the casting of the legendary tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi. This remarkable showman is in amazingly dynamic voice......continue...
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ODO 7057
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...
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$13.99
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ODO 1484
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-08-12
Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
Performers:
Andreyev, Eleonora; Arkhipova, Irina; Atlantov, Vladimir; Nesterenko, Evgeny; Sokolov, Andrei; Valaitis, Vladimir; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Conductors:
Mansourian, Fouat
Some of the biggest names in Russian opera headline this live 1973 performance of a Rimsky-Korsakov rarity from Moscow's historic Bolshoi Theater. Based on a...continue...
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ODO 1481
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-08-12
Works: Jules Massenet: Werther
Performers:
Gullino, Walter; Kraus, Alfredo [Tenor Vocals]; Lorni, Giorgio; Mazzucato, Daniela; Obraztsova, Yelena; Rinaldi, Alberto; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]
Conductors:
Prêtre, Georges
A peerless performance of Massenet's masterpiece from the world's most famous opera house, live in 1976, starring tenor Alfredo Kraus in the title role. Especially...continue...
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ODO 1482
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-08-12
Works: Antonin Dvorák: Rusalka
Performers:
Alexander, Roberta [Soprano Vocals]; Bello, Angela; Boer, Nico; Dielemann, Marianne; Killebrew, Gwendolyn; Philippo, Ans; Stratas, Teresa; White, Willard [Bass Vocals]; Zidek, Ivo; Zijl, Fons van
Conductors:
Gregor, Bohumil
Ensemble:
Netherlands Opera Orchestra
Dvorak's most popular opera contains "The Song to the Moon," one of the most gorgeous soprano arias ever written, but the rest of the music...continue...
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ODO 7059
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-06-10
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani
Performers:
Caballé, Montserrat; Christoff, Boris; Fiorentini, Mirella; Glossop, Peter; Morresi, Giuseppe; Prevedi, Bruno; Ricciardi, Franco
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Chorus Milan
"Bruno Prevedi... sings ardently, is stylistically right, has all the notes, and makes a good bandito. Peter Glossop [is]... a superb Carlo, dignified and noble......continue...
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ODO 7051
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-06-10
Works: Arthur Bliss: The Olympians, opera in 3 acts, F. 97
Performers:
Bohan, Edmund; Dickerson, Bernard; Hemsley, Thomas; Herincx, Raimund; McAlpine, William; Minty, Shirley; Pashley, Anne; Robinson, Forbes; Woodland, Rae
Conductors:
Fairfax, Bryan
In the 1920s, Arthur Bliss was probably the most talked-about composer in England, and certainly the most widely performed abroad. He was knighted in 1950...continue...
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ODO 1480
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-05-13
Works: Umberto Giordano: Fedora
Performers:
Amedeo, Giovanni; Buccini, Vittorio; Campi, Enrico; Caruso, Mariano; Chiocca, Gennaro; Cioffi, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Esca, Pina; Frosini, Mario; Mezetti, Sofia; Padillo, Luigi; Sereni, Mario [...
Conductors:
Basile, Arturo
Ensemble:
Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra
Enrico Caruso sang in the premiere of this opera in 1898, and it became a favorite worldwide. Giordano's opera 'Andrea Chenier' eventually surpassed it in...continue...
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ODO 7054
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...
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ODO 7055
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...
$25.99
$23.99
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ODO 7050
14 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-02-12
Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers:
Batic, Polly; Crkall, Karen Marie; Emmerich, Albert; Falke, Margret Welk; Flagstad, Kirsten; Frantz, Ferdinand; Gabory, Magda; Herrmann, Josef; Hongen, Elisabeth; Kenney, Margherita; Konetzni, Hilde ...
Conductors:
Furtwängler, Wilhelm
This 1950 performance is the only live complete recording of The Ring conducted by the legendary Wilhelm Furtwangler. Although it has been available on several...continue...
$75.99
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ODO 1501
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-02-12
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Performers:
Baldani, Ruza; Bertocci, Aldo; Bruson, Renato; Caballe, Montserrat; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Davia, Federico; Foiani, Giovanni; Guglielmi, Margherita; Meliciani, Carlo; Romani, Regoklo
Conductors:
Molinari-Pradelli, France
Spain's famous opera stars Carreras and Caballe, who are professional colleagues and friends in real life, are an irresistible pairing at the head of a...continue...
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ODO 7048
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-02-12
Works: Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers:
Bacquier, Gabriel; Guy, Henri; Martino, Adriana; Pilou, Jeannette; Reynolds, Anna; Rovetta, Teodoro; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]
Conductors:
Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra
This live 1969 broadcast performance of Debussy's operatic masterpiece, one of the seminal vocal works of the twentieth century, joins the Grand Tier catalogue with...continue...
$39.99
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ODO 7047
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-11-13
Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Performers:
Abello, Andre; Ferment, Claudine; Garcia, Francois; Laffage, Jean-Pierre; Novello, Alfred; Plaque, Iris; Saur, Ivan; Spagnol, Gerard; Vanzo, Alain; Vocals], Andree Esposito [Soprano
Conductors:
Almeida, Antonio de
Gounod's Romeo et Juliette had its premiere in Paris, at the Theatre-Lyrique, on April 27, 1867. It was successful, and was given in both London...continue...
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ODO 1477
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-11-13
Works: Umberto Giordano: La cena delle beffe
Performers:
Clabassi, Plinio [Bass Vocal]; Degl'Innocenti, Angelo; Formichini, Dino; Guelfi, Giangiacomo; Marchiandi, Angelo; Mariotti, Alfredo; Matsumoto, Miwako; Morresi, Giuseppe; Rosati, A. M.; Zambon, Amade...
Conductors:
Bonavolontà, Nino
The most popular work of Umberto Giordano (1867–1948) remains Andrea Chenier, but he did write other fine operas that deserve revival. One of these is...continue...
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ODO 1478
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-11-13
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore
Performers:
Bergonzi, Carlo; Cappuccilli, Piero; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Fiorentini, Mirella; Simionato, Giulietta; Tucci, Gabriella; Vinco, Ivo
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
This recording, which has been a best-seller in the standard Opera d’Oro budget catalogue, represents a live performance by the world-famous La Scala opera company...continue...
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ODO 7045
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-11-13
Works: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Performers:
Bence, Margarete; Fassbaender, Brigitte [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Hooley, William; Klarwein, Franz; Kusche, Benno; Paskuda, Georg; Peter, Albrecht; Popp, Sophie; Ridderbusch, Karl; Thaw, David; Waas, A...
Conductors:
Kleiber, Carlos
Ensemble:
Bavarian State Opera Orchestra
Another entry in the immortal catalogue of conductor Carlos Kleiber (1930–2004), a colossus among 20th-century musicians. Although Kleiber had one of the most limited repertoires...continue...
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ODO 7046
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...
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ODO 7037
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-10-09
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore, opera
Performers:
Bergonzi, Carlo; Cava, Carlo; Jotti, Renza; Scotto, Renata; Taddei, Giuseppe
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
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$23.99
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ODO 7044
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...
$7.49
$6.49
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ODO 1004
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-06-12
Works: Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers:
Bacquier, Gabriel; Guy, Henri; Martino, Adriana; Pilou, Jeannette; Reynolds, Anna; Rovetta, Teodoro; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]
Conductors:
Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra
This live 1969 broadcast performance of Debussy's operatic masterpiece-and one of the seminal vocal works of the 20th century- has long been unavailable, and is...continue...
$20.99
$18.99
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ODO 1473
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-06-12
Works: Giacomo Puccini: Le Villi
Performers:
Luchetti, Veriano; Sighele, Mietta; Zanasi, Mario
Conductors:
Ratjen, Hans Georg
Puccini's first opera, Le villi, was premiered in 1884 on a triple bill with two other short works now forgotten. It was the surprise hit...continue...
$7.99
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ODO 1474
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-06-12
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il corsaro
Performers:
Bruson, Renato; Fabbris, Guido; Gulin, Angeles; Lamberti, Giorgio; Mazzieri, Maurizio; Ricciarelli, Katia
Conductors:
López-Cobos, Jesús
Ensemble:
Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra
Listed as thirteenth among Verdi's stage works, Il corsaro was actually conceived years before it was finished. By the time it was finally produced in...continue...
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ODO 1476
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-06-12
Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Performers:
Brilioth, Helge; Feldhoff, Heinz; Ligendza, Catarina; McIntyre, Donald; Minton, Yvonne [Soprano Vocals]; Moll, Kurt; Steinbach, Heribert; Zednik, Heinz
Conductors:
Kleiber, Carlos
Ensemble:
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
"This performance is truly stunning: it delivers the most powerful first act I've ever heard, with Isolde's rage absolutely terrifying-and the rest of the opera...continue...
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ODO 7039
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-06-12
Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera
Performers:
Antonini, Giovanni [Bass Vocal]; Bruscantini, Sesto; Fiorentini, Mirella; Freni, Mirella; Giaiotti, Bonaldo; Pavarotti, Luciano; Venturini, Mino
Conductors:
Muti, Riccardo
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome
"Mirella Freni [is] at her vocally most impeccable and emotionally most communicative and her Elvira is a lovely creation. Pavarotti sings with grace, ease, and...continue...
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ODO 7043
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-05-08
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Performers:
Canali, Anna Maria; Caruso, Mariano; Elmo, Cloe; Maionica, Silvio [Bass vocals]; Nessi, Giuseppe; Noni, Alda; Silveri, Paolo; Stabile, Mariano; Tebaldi, Renata; Valletti, Cesare [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors:
De Sabata, Victor
"One of the most remarkable performances of anything by Verdi ever captured on a disc. Mariano Stabile's Falstaff was a legendary achievement, dramatically and vocally,...continue...
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ODO 7041
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-05-08
Works: Richard Strauss: Die ägyptische Helena, Op. 75
Performers:
Aldenhoff, Bernd; Holm, Richard; Kupper, Annelies; Malaniuk, Ira; Rysanek, Leonie; Uhde, Hermann
Conductors:
Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble:
Bavarian State Opera Orchestra
"A tremendous performance. While in mono and obviously not comparable to the range of Telarc's digital recording, it is, in fact, better balanced, and the...continue...
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ODO 7042
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-04-10
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Performers:
Callas, Maria; Carlin, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Panerai, Rolando; Villa, Luisa; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]; Zampieri, Giuseppe
Conductors:
Karajan, Herbert von
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
Live performance, Berlin, September 29, 1955. One of the greatest live complete opera recordings starring Maria Callas, and the best of her recordings of Lucia...continue...
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ODO 7035
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-04-10
Works: Giacomo Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Performers:
Amadini, Maria; Benatti, Erminio; Cazzato, Michele; Cesarini, Athos; Coda, Eraldo; Corelli, Franco; Forti, Carlo; Frazzoni, Gigliola; Gobbi, Tito; Latinucci, Pier Luigi; Mercuriali, Angelo; Morresi, ...
Conductors:
Votto, Antonino
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
"Franco Corelli gives us the most vocally thrilling Dick Johnson of all his burnished, brawny tone makes him both lovable and heroic. Tito Gobbi's Jack...continue...
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ODO 7036
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-03-20
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco
Performers:
de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Fiorentini, Mirella; Foiani, Giovanni; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Guelfi, Giangiacomo; Lane, Gloria; Raimondi, Gianni; Suliotis, Elena
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
Produced in March 1842, Nabucco was Verdi's first triumph with the public and (most) critics, establishing him as a great composer. The audience at the...continue...
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ODO 7031
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-03-20
Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, J 277
Performers:
Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Grummer, Elisabeth; Horn, Heiner; Kaltwasser, Brigitte; Marschner, Kurt; Munch, Richard; Poell, Alfred; Proebstl, Max; Schulz, Lucy; Siemeling, Marlies; Streich, Rita; Vocal...
Conductors:
Kleiber, Erich
Ensemble:
Cologne West German Radio Orchestra
Der Freischutz was the first great German national opera, breaking the stranglehold of the Italians over the opera world. Its premiere in 1821 was a...continue...
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ODO 7038
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-03-20
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Il giovedì grasso, opera
Performers:
Bassi-Ferrari, Irene; Catalani, Nestore; Loomis, James; Malacarne, Rodolfo; Minetto, Maria; Oncina, Juan; Rizzoli, Bruna; Rovetta, Teodoro
Conductors:
Loehrer, Edwin
Ensemble:
Swiss Italian Orchestra
Il giovedi grasso (Fat Thursday) is one of several of Donizetti's short comic operas that have been dusted off in recent years with considerable success....continue...
$7.99
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ODO 1472
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-02-13
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani
Performers:
de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Domingo, Placido; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Kabaivanska, Raina; Meliciani, Carlo; Pauli, Milena
Conductors:
Votto, Antonino
Ensemble:
; Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
Ernani had its premiere in 1844 and went on swiftly to conquer the world's theaters, remaining one of Verdi's most popular operas for many decades....continue...
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ODO 1468
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...
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ODO 1467
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2007-02-13
Works: Gioachino Rossini: L'equivoco stravagante, opera
Performers:
Baratti, Giuseppe; Bruscantini, Sesto; Gaiffa, Varlo; Guglielmi, Margherita; Panerai, Rolando; Zilio, Elena
Conductors:
Rigacci, Bruno
1971 live broadcast of this rare opera! Giaocchino Rossini(1792-1868) was all of nineteen years old when he wrote his first full-length comedy, "The Bizarre Misunderstanding,"...continue...
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ODO 1470
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2006-11-14
Works: Alfredo Catalani: Loreley
Performers:
Cappuccilli, Piero; Cecchele, Gianfranco; Ferrin, Agostino; Suliotis, Elena; Talarico, Rita
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
This performance, recorded live at the La Scala opera house in Milan on February 13, 1968, is the only recording of this opera ever issued...continue...
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ODO 7032
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2006-11-14
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos
Performers:
Aichberger, Ewald; Corelli, Franco; Franc, Tugomir; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Gruberova, Edita; Janowitz, Gundula; Talvela, Martti; Verrett, Shirley [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Wachter, Eberhard
Conductors:
Stein, Horst
Ensemble:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
"Franco Corelli never recorded the role of Carlos commercially so this is instantly valuable; and indeed the tenor is in magnificent voice - pungent, emotionally...continue...
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ODO 7034
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2006-11-14
Works: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Le Domino Noir, opera; Fra Diavolo
Performers:
Berton, Liliane; Betti, Freda; Campora, Giuseppe; Corena, Fernando; Demigny, Bernard; Maurun, Gilbert; Micheau, Janine; Nessi, Giuseppe; Noni, Alda; Orlandini, Gino; Pace, Miti Truccato; Parras, Germ...
Conductors:
Gressier, Jules; Simonetto, Alfredo
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Chorus Milan; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; ORTF Lyric Chorus
Here is a complete performance of Auber's sparkling opera 'Le domino noir', plus highlights from another Auber opera, 'Fra Diavolo'. "Auber's music has an irresistible...continue...
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ODO 1460
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