Romantic Period > 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; Caballé, Montserrat; Cappuccilli, Piero; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Christoff, Boris; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Domingo, Pla...
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...

The Heartfelt Voice - Heinz Hoppe, tenor [4 CDs]

4 CD / Acanta / 2012-09-25

Works: Werner Bochmann: Heimat, deine Sterne, song for voice & piano; Abends in der Taverne, song; Robert Stolz: Vor meinem Vaterhaus steht eine Linde; Karl Blume: Grün ist die Heide, song (from the fi...
Performers: Bak, Valerie; Bartos, Rita; Hallstein, Ingeborg [Soprano Vocals]; Hansen, Max; Hofmann, Willi; Hoppe, Heinz; Langel, Willy [Vocals]; Litz, Gisela; Owen, Chloe; Rothenberger, Anneliese; Schlemm, Anny;...
Conductors: Becht, Erich; Stolz, Robert; Marszalek, Franz; Stephan, Wilhelm; Schandert, Manfred; Muller-Lampertz, Richard; Cremer, Curt; Schmidt-Boelcke, Werner; Burkhardt, Paul; Erede, Alberto; Martin, Wolfgang...

Heinz Hoppe was been the incarnation of the "olk singer": that rare species of singer possessing the necessary vocal qualities to pursue a career in...continue...

Opera 2012

2 CD / Decca / 2012-05-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Così fan tutte, K 588; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore; Rigoletto; La traviata; Nabucco; V...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Bartoli, Cecilia; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bocelli, Andrea; Braun, Victor; Caballe, Montserrat; Calleja, Joseph; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Chiara...
Conductors: Ono, Kazushi; Mehta, Zubin; Luisi, Fabio; Pappano, Antonio; Antonini, Giovanni; Armiliato, Marco; Abbado, Roberto; Solti, Sir Georg; Wellber, Omer Meir; Bonynge, Richard; Molinari-Pradelli, France; C...

This magnificent collection features the greatest starts of opera including Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Florez, Cecilia Bartolia, Andrea Bocelli and many...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

Very Best of Yehudi Menuhin

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-07-26

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin in D minor; Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Violin in A minor, BWV 1041; Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043; Max Bruch: Concerto for Violin no 1 ...
Performers: Clare, Alan [piano]; Cocker, Paul; Crombie, Tony; Ferras, Christian [Violin]; Grappelli, Stephane; Menuhin, Yehudi; Verrell, Ronnie
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Menuhin, Yehudi; Susskind, Walter; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Pritchard, John; Erede, Alberto; Kurtz, Efrem; Kempe, Rudolf; Boult, Adrian; Lysy, Alberto; Irving, Robert; Harris...

Terrific Tenors

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2011-07-26

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Macbeth; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete); Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Manon Lescaut; Tosca; La bohè...
Performers: Best, Roy; Björling, Jussi; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Collins, Kenneth; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Domingo, Placido; Flórez, Juan Diego; Hobson, David [Singer/Com...
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard; Gardiner, John Eliot; Kamirski, Wlodzimierz; López-Cobos, Jesús; Rizzi, Carlo; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Kubelik, Rafael; Davis, Colin; Rescigno, Nicola; Walker, Antony; ...
Ensemble: ; English Baroque Soloists

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...

Essential Violin

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-02-15

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Violin in A minor, BWV 1041; Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043; Concerto for Violin in E, BWV 1042; Partita no 3 in ...
Performers: Barbizet, Pierre; Chang, Sarah; Chung, Kyung-Wha [Violin]; Collard, Jean-Phillipe; Dumay, Augustin [Violin]; Ferras, Christian [Violin]; Golan, Itamar [Piano]; Haendel, Ida; Kogan, Leonid; Kremer, Gi...
Conductors: Lysy, Alberto; Accardo, Salvatore; Menuhin, Yehudi; Oistrakh, David; Boult, Adrian; Domingo, Placido; Susskind, Walter; Kurtz, Efrem; Karajan, Herbert von; Kondrashin, Kirill; Erede, Alberto; Ozawa, ...
Ensemble: ; I Virtuosi Italiani

Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / MET

2 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-01-25

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Conductors: Erede, Alberto

Recording information: Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY (12/16/1950)....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...

Christa Ludwig Sings Rarities

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Aida, opera; Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Performers: Amara, Lucine; Berry, Walter; Kmentt, Waldemar; Ludwig, Christa; Rysanek, Lotte
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Böhm, Karl; Klobucar, Berislav; Cleva, Fausto; Maazel, Lorin

Songs from Mozart, Bellini, Haydn, Handel, Donizetti

1 CD / Bella Voce Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Exsultate jubilate, K 165 (158a); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Franz Joseph Haydn: Pie...
Performers: Brain, Dennis [French Horn]; Cantelo, April; Nilsson, Raymond; Sutherland, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir

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

Opera Now, January 2012
Worth looking at...the cast includes Franco Bonisolli's visceral Rodolfo, Bonadlo Giaiotti's reliable Walter, Christa Ludwig's forthright Federica and Giuseppe Taddei...continue...
Recording information: Wiener Staatsoper (01/23/1974)....continue...

Best Violin 100

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-01-26

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in A major, Op. 2 no 2/RV 31; Fritz Kreisler: Sonata for Violin in G minor 'The De...
Performers: Balsam, Artur; Barbizet, Pierre; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Beznosiuk, Pavlo; Brown, Ian [Piano]; Capucon, Renaud; Chang, Sarah; Chung, Kyung-Wha [Violin]; Collard, Jean-Phillipe; Domingo,...
Conductors: Lysy, Alberto; ; Halstead, Anthony; Accardo, Salvatore; Pritchard, John; Karajan, Herbert von; Marriner, Sir Neville; Boult, Adrian; Kondrashin, Kirill; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Dervaux, Pierre; Previn...
Ensemble: ; Camerata Lysy Gstaad; Europa Galante; Hanover Band

This 6-CD set contains a fine collection of 100 favorite violin classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists. Among them are giants of...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...

Donizetti: LÆelisir dÆamore / Erede/NHK SO, Tagliavini, Noni, La Porta [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Video Artists International / 2009-05-12

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera
Performers: Chissari, Santa; La Porta, Arturo; Montarsolo, Paolo; Noni, Alda; Tagliavini, Ferruccio
Conductors: Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: Fujiwara Opera Chorus Group; Japanese Ballet Association; NHK Symphony Chorus Tokyo; NHK Symphony Orchestra; Tokyo Broadcasting Chorus

Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani created some of the most human and ingratiating characters in all of opera. This 1959 Tokyo production features...continue...
Run Time: 107 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, B&W
Sound Format(s): LPCM Mono,
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
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Best 100 Menuhin

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-04-21

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for Violin in C major, Op. 8 no 6/RV 180 "Il piacere"; Concerto for Violin in E flat major, Op. 8 no 5/RV 253 ...
Performers: Balsam, Artur; Barshai, Rudolf; Civil, Alan; Clare, Alan [piano]; Curzon, Clifford; Endt, Hendrick; Etheridge, John [Guitar]; Ferras, Christian [Violin]; Gazelle, Marcel; Goossens, Leon [Oboe]; Gotko...
Conductors: Lysy, Alberto; Maksymiuk, Jerzy; Menuhin, Yehudi; Pritchard, John; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Kempe, Rudolf; Kurtz, Efrem; Susskind, Walter; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Erede, Alberto; Fistoulari, Anatole...
Ensemble: ; Alan Clare Trio; Bath Festival Orchestra; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Menuhin Festival Orchestra; Philharmonia O...

Adding to EMI Classics' acclaimed Best 100 Series is this new release featuring the Yehudi Menuhin's 100 greatest recorded moments, organized into the following categories:...continue...

Operamania (Box Set)

5 CD / Decca Import / 2009-03-03

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Manon Lescaut; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Tosca; La Rondine; La Fanciulla del West; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; The Pearl Fishers, opera;...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Aragall, Giacomo; Bacquier, Gabriel; Bartoli, Cecilia; Bastianini, Ettore; Battle, Kathleen; Berbié, Jane; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bergonzi, Carlo; Björlin...
Conductors: Patanè, Franco; Lewis, Henry; Serafin, Tullio; Santi, Nello; Erede, Alberto; Bonynge, Richard; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Chailly, Riccardo; Kertész, István; Varviso, Silvio; Solti, Si...

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; Björling, Jussi; Callas, Maria; Caruso, Enrico; de Luca, Giuseppe; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Ebert, Harry; Gedda, Nicolai; Gigli, Beniamino; Jurinac, Sena; Lanza, M...
Conductors: Berrettoni, Umberto; Goehr, Walter; Barbirolli, John; Zamboni, Rainaldo; Korngold, Erich Wolfgang; Lehár, Franz; Rother, Artur; Marszalek, Franz; Ackermann, Otto; Leitner, Ferdinand; Ludwig, Leo...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Jean Borthayre

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-07-01

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Jules Massenet: Manon; Thaïs; Hérodiade; Emile...
Performers: Angelici, Martha; Borthayre, Jean; de los Angeles, Victoria; Jeantet, Robert; Legay, Henri; Linsolas, Jacques; Luca, Libero de; Mans, Lucien; Robin, Mado; Semser, Ethel
Conductors: Cluytens, André; Erede, Alberto; Leibowitz, René; Monteux, Pierre; Dervaux, Pierre

Although he began his career relatively late, Jean Borthayre's distinctive voice became internationally known through his many recordings. He was perhaps the only French baritone...continue...

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; Berbié, Jane; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bergonzi, Carlo; Björling, Jussi; Borthayre, Jean; Braun, Victor; Bumbry, Grac...
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...

Original Masters - Renata Tebaldi - Aria and Duets

5 CD / Decca Import / 2007-02-13

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; La traviata; Aida, opera; Un ballo in maschera; Don Carlos; La forza del destino; Otello; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste; O del mio dolce ardor; Richard Wagner: Lohe...
Performers: Bergonzi, Carlo; Bonynge, Richard; Campora, Giuseppe; Caruso, Mariano; Caselli, Dario; Corena, Fernando; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; MacNeil, Cornell; McGillivray, Ja...
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Karajan, Herbert von; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Bartoletti, Bruno; Solti, Sir Georg; Bonynge, Richard; Guadagno, Anton; Serafin, Tullio; Cleva, Fausto; Capuan...

The great soprano Renata Tebaldi's incredible catalogue of recordings for Decca began with a recital disc made in 1949. Over the next twenty years she...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giacinto Prandelli

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-01-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Don Pasquale; Lucia di Lammermoor; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Jules Massenet: W...
Performers: Carteri, Rosanna; Giulio, Germana di; Prandelli, Giacinto
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Quadri, Argeo; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Milan Symphony Orchestra; Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra

Giacinto Prandelli was born in 1914 in Lumezzane near Brescia. At the age of 20 he first studied voice with baritone Edmondo Grandini and made...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

Classic Recitals - Cesare Siepi

1 CD / Decca Import / 2005-08-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Nabucco; Ernani; Simon Boccanegra; Carlos Gomes: Salvator Rosa, opera; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Robert le Diable; Fromental Halévy: La juive
Performers: Siepi, Cesare
Conductors: Erede, Alberto
Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra

The legendary Italian bass Cesare Siepi was one of the great Don Giovanni's and at the height of his career - during the 1950s and...continue...

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