2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-11-10
Currently this is not only the only mid-price version of Stiffelio with a libretto - it's the only available recording, period! And a fine one...continue...
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-09-08
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; I lombardi alla prima crociata; Vincenzo Bellini: I puritani; I Capuleti e i Montecchi; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; La favorita; La figlia del reg...
Performers:
Pavarotti, Luciano
Born in Modena, a small town in northern Italy, Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) was the son of a baker and amateur tenor. He grew up surrounded...continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-09-08
Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Performers:
Alva, Luigi; Badioli, Carlo; Bruscantini, Sesto; Carbonari, Virgilio; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Forti, Carlo; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Malagu, Stefania
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...
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. Recording information: Milan (1964)....continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-05-12
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aroldo
Performers:
Cecchele, Gianfranco; Gulin, Angeles; Montefusco, Licinio
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Chorus Milan; 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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-05-12
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Belisario
Performers:
Antonini, Giovanni [Bass]; Carusi, Alberto; Gencer, Leyla; Grilli, Umberto; Pallini, Rina; Pecile, Mirna; Sebastian, Bruno; Taddei, Giuseppe; Veronese, Augusto; Zaccaria, Nicola
Ensemble:
Venice Teatro la Fenice Chorus; Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra
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...
Booklet includes the libretto in Italian and English....continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-04-14
Works: Paul Hindemith: Cardillac, Op. 39
Performers:
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Grobe, Donald; Katz, Eberhard; Kirschstein, Leonore; Kohn, Karl [bass baritone]; Nett, Willi; Soderstrom, Elisabeth
Ensemble:
Cologne West German Radio Chorus; Cologne West German Radio Symphony Orchestra
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...
This selection includes a newly-translated German-English libretto....continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-04-14
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Padilla
Performers:
Caley, Ian; Drago, Gunnar; Du Plessis, Christian; Elkins, Margreta; King, Malcolm; Price, Janet; Sabin, Patricia
Ensemble:
Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Opera Rara Chorus
First mounted during Carnival season in Milan in 1841, Maria Padilla remained extremely popular for about 17 years, and then sank out of sight until...continue...
This selection includes a newly-translated libretto in English....continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-03-10
Works: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24
Performers:
Avdeyeva, Larissa; Belov, Eugene; Lemechev, Sergei; Mikhailov, Igor; Pankov, Georgi; Petrov, Ivan; Petrova, Valentina; Sokolov, Andrei; Timchenko, Nikolai; Verbitskaya, Eugenia; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Ensemble:
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus; Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
"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...
This selection's booklet includes libretti in Russian (transliterated) and English....continue...
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ODO 7066
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-03-10
Works: Giovanni Pacini: Saffo
Performers:
Del Bianco, Tito; Gencer, Leyla; Guggia, Mario; Maniachi, Vittoria; Mattiucci, Franca; Piacente, Maurizio; Quilico, Louis
Ensemble:
Naples Teatro San Carlo Chorus; 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...
This selection's booklet includes libretti in Italian and English....continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-02-10
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix
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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-11-11
Works: Gioachino Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Performers:
Corradi, Giampaolo; Garaventa, Ottavio; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Gusmeroli, Giovanni; Jacopucci, Fernando; Lane, Gloria; Petri, Mario; Ventriglia, Franco; Verrett, Shirley; Zylis-Gara, Teresa
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Chorus Rome; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome
This is a fine Rossini opera, once very famous especially for the noble "Prayer of Moses," but was neglected in the 20th century along with...continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Igor Stravinsky: Rake's Progress
Performers:
Arie, Raffaele; Cuenod, Hugues; Kraus, Otakar; Menkes, Emanuel; Rounseville, Robert; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Tangemann, Nell; Tourel, Jennie
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
This is a historical recording of the opera's world premiere in 1951, conducted by Stravinsky himself....continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Gioachino Rossini: L'assedio di Corinto
Performers:
Bonisolli, Franco; de Palma, Piero; Diaz, Justino; Foiani, Giovanni; Horne, Marilyn; Pauli, Milena; Sills, Beverly; Washington, Paolo
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
Live performance from La Scala in 1969 of this Rossini rarity, with much the same cast as the studio recording now out of print and...continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
Performers:
Cecchele, Gianfranco; De Cavalieri, Anna; Marimpietri, Lydia
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Chorus Rome; 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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Il pirata
Performers:
Baratti, Giuseppe; Caballe, Montserrat; Cappuccilli, Piero; Labo, Flaviano; Rafanelli, Flora; Trama, Ugo
Ensemble:
Florence Maggio Musicale Chorus; 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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-09-09
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller
Performers:
Baronti, Duilio; Colarescu, Grazia; Colombo, Scipio; De Tommaso, Salvatore; Kelston, Lucy; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo; Pace, Miti Truccato; Vaghi, Giacomo
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Chorus; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra
"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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-09-09
Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Performers:
Cadoni, Fernanda; Caruso, Mariano; Cioni, Renato; Giannini, Aldo; Gioffi, Mario; Olivero, Magda; Zanasi, Mario
"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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-08-12
Works: Sergei Prokofiev: Gambler, Op. 24
Performers:
Kasrashvili, Makvala; Maslennikov, Alexei; Ognivtsev, Alexandre
Ensemble:
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus; Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
'The Gambler' was Prokofiev's first opera to gain a public performance, and the first opera ever based on a story by Dostoyevsky. It is funny,...continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-08-12
Works: Antonín Dvorák: Rusalka, Op. 114/B 203
Performers:
White, Willard
Ensemble:
Netherlands Opera Chorus; 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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-08-12
Works: Jules Massenet: Werther
Performers:
Kraus, Alfredo; Obraztsova, Elena; Rinaldi, Alberto; Zaccaria, Nicola
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-08-12
Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Tsar's Bride
Performers:
Arkhipova, Irina; Atlantov, Vladimir; Morozov, Boris; Nesterenko, Yevgeny; Valaitis, Vladimir; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Ensemble:
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus; Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-06-10
Works: Sir Arthur Bliss: The Olympians, F 97
Performers:
Bohan, Edmund; Dickerson, Bernard; Hemsley, Thomas; Herincx, Raimund; MacAlpine, William; Minty, Shirley; Pashley, Anne; Robinson, Forbes; Woodland, Rae
Ensemble:
Ambrosian Singers; Polyphonia Orchestra
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...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-06-10
Works: Richard Strauss: Arabella, Op. 79
Performers:
Allemano, Osvaldo; Boom, Peter; Borgato, Renato; Caballe, Montserrat; Dominguez, Oralia; Falcone, Licia; Felagi, Tom; Freiberger, Manfred; Gaifa, Carlo; Kollo, Rene; Miljakovic, Olivera; Moll, Kurt; ...
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Chorus Rome; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome
'Arabella' was first heard in 1933. A kind of sequel to 'Der Rosenkavalier' of 1911, it was to take its place as one of Richard...continue...
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-06-10
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani
Performers:
Caballe, Montserrat; Christoff, Boris; Glossop, Peter; Prevedi, Bruno
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Chorus Milan; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra 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 /
2008-05-13
Works: Umberto Giordano: Fedora
Performers:
Amodeo, Giovanni; Buccini, Vittorio; Campi, Enrico; Caruso, Mariano; Ciocca, Gennaro; Cioffi, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Esca, Tina; Frosini, Mario; Garofalo, Gerardo; Mizzetti, Sofia; Paolillo, Lu...
Ensemble:
Naples Teatro San Carlo Chorus; 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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