Ghione, Franco

Groáe Tenöre der Musikgeschichte, Vol. 2

2 CD / ZYX Records / 2013-01-08

Works: Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; I lombardi; Attila; La traviata; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Geo...
Performers: Bada, Angelo; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Homer, Louise; Pinza, Ezio; Rethberg, Elisabeth
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Reibold, Bruno; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Olivieri, Dino; Ricci, Ruggiero; Sabajno, Carlo; Goehr, Walter; Barbirolli, John; Ghione, Franco; Colling...

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...
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Voices of Italian Opera - Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini / Gigli, Caruso, Bjorling, Gobbi, Callas, Scotto et al.

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-07-31

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; La sonnambula, opera; I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Favorita; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Arroyo, Martina; Baltsa, Agnes; Barbieri, Fedora; Basiola, Marco; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bjorling, Jussi; Blake, Rockwell; Bonisolli, Franco; Borgonovo, Luigi; ...
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Eichhorn, Kurt; Pidò, Evelino; Fistoulari, Anatole; Sabajno, Carlo; Davis, Colin; Robinson, Stanford; Goehr, Walter; Gui, Vittorio; Levine, James; Albergoni, Angelo; Norrington,...

These two compilations present a sampling of the many outstanding voices captured on record by EMI Classics over the past century in the field of...continue...

The Callas Effect / Delux Edition: 2 CDs plus DVD Video

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-10-11

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: I vespri siciliani; Rigoletto; La traviata; Macbeth; Il trovatore; Ernani; Aida, opera; Don Carlo; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera;...
Performers: Berbie, Jane; Callas, Maria; Dickie, William; Ercolani, Renato; Forte, Carlo; Sautereau, Nadine
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Ghione, Franco; Prêtre, Georges; Rescigno, Nicola; De Sabata, Victor; Karajan, Herbert von

Maria Callas is the ultimate and original diva. She is widely regarded as the greatest opera singer and performer of all time whose life, voice...continue...

The Callas Effect / Standard Edition

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-10-11

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: I vespri siciliani; Rigoletto; La traviata; Macbeth; Il trovatore; Ernani; Aida, opera; Don Carlo; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera;...
Performers: Berbie, Jane; Callas, Maria; Dickie, William; Ercolani, Renato; Forte, Carlo; Sautereau, Nadine
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Ghione, Franco; Prêtre, Georges; Rescigno, Nicola; De Sabata, Victor; Karajan, Herbert von

Maria Callas is the ultimate and original diva. She is widely regarded as the greatest opera singer and performer of all time whose life, voice...continue...

Icon: Beniamino Gigli (7 CDs)

7 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-03-23

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: La favorita; Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Pietro Mascagni: Iris; L'amico Fritz; Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Isab...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Bada, Angelo; Baldosseri, Nerina; Bechi, Gino; Caniglia, Maria; Conti, Gino; de Luca, Giuseppe; Elmo, Cloe; Fedri, Dino; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Giannini, Dusolina; Gigli, Beniamino; M...
Conductors: Pasternack, Joseph; Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Sabajno, Carlo; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Ghione, Franco; Barbirolli, John; Goehr, Walter; Berrettoni, Umberto; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Mascagni, Pie...
Ensemble: ; Neapolitan Novelty Band

Beniamino Gigli was the most popular and successful Italian tenor in the first half of the 20th century. Acclaimed as the second Caruso, he was...continue...

Maria Callas - The Legendary Duets

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2009-11-17

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Manon Lescaut; Turandot; Tosca; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Rigoletto; Il trovatore; Aida, opera; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Purit...
Performers: Barbieri, Fedora; Bergonzi, Carlo; Cappuccilli, Piero; Corelli, Franco; Cossotto, Fiorenza; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Ercolani, Renato; Fernandi, Eugenio; Forti, Carlo; Ged...
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Votto, Antonino; Serafin, Tullio; Ghione, Franco; Prêtre, Georges; Galliera, Alceo

In these 2 CDs, the iconic Greek-American soprano Maria Callas is heard in duets with a number of the greatest opera stars of her day....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...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giovanni Malipiero

1 CD / Preiser / 2009-06-09

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; La Favorita; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; La traviata; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Jules...
Performers: Cristoforeanu, Florica; Malipiero, Giovanni
Conductors: Tansini, Ugo; Albergoni, Angelo; Berrettoni, Umberto; Ghione, Franco
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Giovanni Malipiero's recordings overwhelm the listener with their high quality. The tenor from Padua effortlessly puts today's stars in the shade. He had an excellent...continue...

Maria Callas and Friends / Votto, Gavazzeni, Corelli, Monaco, et al

1 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2009-01-02

Works: Gaspare Spontini: La Vestale; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; La Traviata; Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Bolena; Luigi Cherubini: Medea
Performers: Callas, Maria; Corelli, Franco; Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Kraus, Alfredo [Tenor Vocals]; Raimondi, Gianni; Valletti, Cesare [Tenor Vocals]; Vickers, Jon
Conductors: Votto, Antonino; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Rescigno, Nicola; Ghione, Franco
Ensemble: Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Lisbon San Carlos National Theater Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Saying something new about Maria Callas is an impossible task. In the fifties she was the absolute star of the international opera scene and since...continue...
Recording information: 1954-1958....continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Adelaide Saraceni

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-12-09

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Don Pasquale; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Un ballo in maschera; Jules Massenet: Manon; Pietro Mascagni: L'Amico Fritz; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, oper...
Performers: Basi, Leonildo; Granforte, Apollo; Mannarini, Ida; Pauli, Piero; Poli, Afro; Saraceni, Adelaide; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Nastrucci, Gino; Sabajno, Carlo; Ghione, Franco

Adelaide Saraceni was born in Argentina in 1895, the daughter of Italian immigrants. She first studied violin and after the family returned to Italy in...continue...

Verdi: La Traviata / Ghione, Callas, Kraus, Sereni, Zanini, et al

2 CD / Myto Records / 2008-07-04

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata
Performers: Callas, Maria; de Castro, Maria Cristina; de Palma, Piero; Kraus, Alfredo; Sereni, Mario
Conductors: Ghione, Franco;
Ensemble: Lisbon San Carlos National Theater Chorus; Lisbon San Carlos National Theater Orchestra

The Very Best of Maria Callas

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2008-03-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; La La bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Turandot; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Sviglia; Vincenz...
Performers: Berbie, Jane; Callas, Maria; Canali, Anna Maria; Dickie, William; Ercolani, Renato; Forte, Carlo; Gedda, Nicolai; Sautereau, Nadine
Conductors: De Sabata, Victor; Karajan, Herbert von; Serafin, Tullio; Ghione, Franco; Prêtre, Georges; Rescigno, Nicola; Votto, Antonino

Lebendige Verganenheit - Piero Pauli

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-03-01

Works: Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: La bohème, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Jules Massenet: Ma...
Performers: Basi, Leonildo; Fanelli, Luisa; Masini, Guglielmo; Oltrabella, Augusta; Palai, Nello; Pauli, Piero; Saraceni, Adelaide; Tassinari, Pia
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Ghione, Franco

Born in Barcelona, Pauli's stage career was from 1929 to 1946; his performance in the November 1929 HMV recording of Tosca in the role of...continue...

Puccini: Turandot

2 CD / Warner Classics Import / 2007-10-23

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Franco Alfano: Risurrezione; Jules Massenet: Manon; César Franck: La proces...
Performers: Bravura, Giuseppe; Elmo, Cloe; Giannotti, Armando; Magnetti, Ermelinda; Merli, Francesco; Neroni, Luciano; Olivero, Magda; Poli, Afro; Signore, Gino del; Vocals], Gina Cigna [Soprano; Zagonara, Adelio
Conductors: Ghione, Franco; Tansini, Ugo; Simonetto, Alfredo; Basile, Arturo

The One and Only - Opera Arias / Maria Callas

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2007-08-28

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; La bohème; Tosca; Madama Butterfly; Turandot; Alfredo Catalani: La Wally; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chéni...
Performers: Berbie, Jane; Callas, Maria; Canali, Anna Maria; Dickie, William; Ercolani, Renato; Forti, Carlo; Gedda, Nicolai; Sautereau, Nadine
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; De Sabata, Victor; Karajan, Herbert von; Ghione, Franco; Galliera, Alceo; Rescigno, Nicola; Prêtre, Georges

A 2-CD compilation of Callas' most famous arias, at a 1-CD price! Packaged in a limited edition 6-panel digipack with a lavishly illustrated booklet....continue...

Maria Callas 100 Best Classics

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2007-01-16

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Norma, opera; Il Pirata, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; La figlia del reggimento; Anna Bolena; Luc...
Performers: Arie, Raffaele; Barbieri, Fedora; Berbie, Jane; Borriello, Mario; Calabrese, Franco; Callas, Maria; Canali, Anna Maria; Cattelani, Aurora; Corelli, Franco; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; F...
Conductors: Votto, Antonino; Serafin, Tullio; Rescigno, Nicola; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Galliera, Alceo; Ghione, Franco; Karajan, Herbert von; De Sabata, Victor; Prêtre, Georges

This 6-CD set covers many of the most popular works composed between 1900 and 1999, as well as representative pieces by composers who broadened the...continue...

Ten Top Tenors / Caruso, Roswaenge, Gigli, Tauber, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2006-11-14

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Salvatore Cardillo: Core' ngrato; Adolphe Adam: Le postillon de Lonjumeau; Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Fra Diavolo; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Puccin...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Gigli, Beniamino; Kreisler, Fritz; Martinelli, Giovanni; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Melchior, Lauritz; Rosvaenge, Helge; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Schneider, Ed...
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Ghione, Franco; Szell, George; Paulik, Anton; Gaubert, Philippe; Heurteur, Fernand; Grevillius, Nils; Ormandy, Eugene; Collingwood, L...

Arias

3 CD / Membran / 2006-05-04

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Iris; Lodoletta; Isabeau; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Umberto Giordano: Fedora; Andrea Chénier; Francesco Cilè...
Performers: Bechi, Gino; Gigli, Beniamino; Marcucci, Maria; Mario Basiola, Jr.; Nessi, Giuseppe; Pacetti, Iva; Paci, Leone; Rasa, Lina Bruna
Conductors: Mascagni, Pietro; Ghione, Franco

La leggenda di Magda Olivero - Studio Recordings 1938-1953

1 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2005-11-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Manon Lescaut; Tosca; La bohème; Suor Angelica; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giuseppe Verdi: La tra...
Performers: Cigna, Gina; Magnetti, Ermelinda; Merli, Francesco; Olivero, Magda
Conductors: Ghione, Franco; La Rosa Parodi, Armando; Tansini, Ugo; Simonetto, Alfredo; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: EIAR Chorus Turin; EIAR Symphony Orchestra Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

These offers most of the studio recordings made by Magda Olivero between 1938 and 1953, documenting the talent of this wonderful artist, who was born...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Augusta Oltrabella

1 CD / Preiser / 2005-02-01

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Iris; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Suor Angelica; Lodovico Rocca: Il Dibuk, opera; Umberto Giordano: Fedora; Mese Mariano, opera; Gius...
Performers: Monticone, Rita; Oltrabella, Augusta; Pauli, Piero; Signore, Gino del; Tassinari, Pia; Tegani, Emma; Ziliani, Alessandro
Conductors: Ghione, Franco; Antonicelli, Giuseppe; Capuana, Franco; Olivieri, Dino

Prima Voce - Mafalda Favero - Recordings 1929-46

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-01-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Pietro Mascagni: Lodoletta; L'Amico Fritz; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Ugo Bottacchiari: L' Ombra, opera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mo...
Performers: Ruotolo, Ines; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Vocals], Mafalda Favero [Soprano; Ziliani, Alessandro
Conductors: Antonicelli, Giuseppe; Sabino, Antonio; Ghione, Franco

The Very Best of Beniamino Gigli

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2003-09-02

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Rigoletto; Requiem Mass; La forza del destino; Un ballo in maschera; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Jules Massenet: Manon; Werther; G...
Performers: Bechi, Gino; Caniglia, Maria; Conti, Gino; Dawson, Herbert; Gigli, Beniamino; Marcucci, Maria; Noto, Giuseppe; Simionato, Giulietta; Taddei, Giuseppe
Conductors: Goehr, Walter; Ghione, Franco; Barbirolli, John; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Berrettoni, Umberto; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Mascagni, Pietro; Sabajno, Carlo; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Serafin, Tullio; Zamboni...
Ensemble: ; Solisten-Vereinigung der Bachworche Ansbach; Strings & Harp

Great Voices of the Past - Verdi's Masterworks Vol 1

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

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Nabucco; Il Trovatore; I lombardi; I due Foscari; Attila
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Badini, Ernesto; Bechi, Gino; Bernelli, Gina; Bjorling, Jussi; Boninsegna, Celestina; Caruso, Enrico; Crimi, Giulio; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Granforte, Apollo; Hempel...
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Berrettoni, Umberto; Ghione, Franco; Bourdon, Rosario
Ensemble: La Scala Theater Orchestra

This is the first release in a 4 volume series (8 CDs altogeher) surveying the greatest Verdi recordings made by the past century's most legendary...continue...

Great Opera Recordings - Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Ghione

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-07-02

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera
Performers: Borghi, Arnaldo; Gigli, Beniamino; Mario Basiola, Jr.; Nessi, Giuseppe; Pacetti, Iva; Paci, Leone
Conductors: Ghione, Franco
Ensemble: Arnaldo Borghi Chorus

In this opera, his masterpiece, Leoncavallo successfully combined instantly memorable melodies with simple and intensely dramatic situations. The dramatic power of the music written for...continue...

References - Beniamino Gigli- Opera Arias

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2000-11-14

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; The Pearl Fishers, opera; Jules Massenet: Manon; George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera...
Performers: Bada, Angelo; Caniglia, Maria; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Pinza, Ezio
Conductors: Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Ghione, Franco; Barbirolli, John; Setti, Giulio; Goehr, Walter; Sabajno, Carlo; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Berrettoni, Umberto

Prima Voce Vol 2 - Treasury of Opera - Historic Recordings

5 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-11-14

Works: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Turandot; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night; Sadko; Snow Maiden; The Tsar's Bri...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Barone, Clement; Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Björling, Jussi; Bori, Lucrezia; Bronskaya, Yevgeniya; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; de Luca, Giuseppe; Farrar, Geraldine [So...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Romani, Romano; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ormandy, Eugene; Cloez, Gustave; Bourdon, Rosario; Albergoni, Angelo; Dobrindt, Otto; Pelletier, Wilfred; Coppola, Piero; Ghione, Franco; Barb...

Maria Callas - The Legend

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2000-10-24

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Alfredo Catalani: La Wally; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; Tosca; Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier, opera; Giusepp...
Performers: Berbié, Jane; Callas, Maria; Gedda, Nicolai; Sautereau, Nadine
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; De Sabata, Victor; Ghione, Franco; Prêtre, Georges; Galliera, Alceo
Ensemble: ; Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra; Lisbon San Carlos National Theater Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris; ORTF National Orchestra; Philharmonia Or...

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Ghione, Gigli, Nessi, et al

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-09-12

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera
Performers: Gigli, Beniamino; Mario Basiola, Jr.; Nessi, Giuseppe; Pacetti, Iva; Paci, Leone
Conductors: Ghione, Franco
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus

Any recording with Gigli is of course a treasure, but the special treat here is Mario Basiola as Tonio. "A baritone of great presence with...continue...

The Prima Voce Treasury of Opera Vol 1

6 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-02-15

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; L'Arlesiana; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Die Hugenoten; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Attila; Un ballo in masche...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Battistini, Mattia; Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Devries, David; Flagstad, Kirsten; Fleta, Miguel; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Ga...
Conductors: Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ghione, Franco; Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.; Messner, J.; Reibold, Bruno; Sabajno, Carlo; Polacco, Giorgio; Albergoni, Angelo; Grevillius, Nils; Cloez, Gustave; Setti, G...

The EMI Record of Singing Vol 3 - 1926-1939

10 CD / Testament / 1999-12-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; The Flying Dutchman; Siegfried; Wesendonck Lieder; Rudolf Wille: Königsballade, ...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Allin, Norman; Andrésen, Ivar; Angelis, Nazzareno de; Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Austral, Florence; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badia, Conchita; Badini, Ernesto; Baillie, Isobel; Ba...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Viebig, Ernst; Heidenreich, Johannes; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Weissmann, Frieder; Kun, Cornelius; Dobrindt, Otto; Blech, Leo; Muller, Hans Udo; Orthmann, Erich; Alwin, Carl; Schmals...

Beniamino Gigli - Complete Opera Recordings Vol 3

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 1999-05-29

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Attila; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; La traviata; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Jules Massenet: Manon; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Manon Lescaut; Charles Gounod: Faust;...
Performers: Caniglia, Maria; Elmo, Cloe; Giannini, Dusolina; Gigli, Beniamino; Noto, Giuseppe; Pinza, Ezio; Rethberg, Elisabeth
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Barbirolli, John; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Sabajno, Carlo; Ghione, Franco; Olivieri, Dino; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Goehr, Walter; Collingwood, Lawrance; Berretton...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Alessandro Ziliani

1 CD / Preiser / 1998-12-01

Works: François-Adrien Boieldieu: La dame blanche; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Umberto Giordano: Fedora; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; La Fanciulla del West; Turand...
Performers: Caniglia, Maria; Oltrabella, Augusta; Vocals], Gina Cigna [Soprano; Vocals], Mafalda Favero [Soprano; Ziliani, Alessandro
Conductors: Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Antonicelli, Giuseppe; Ghione, Franco; Erede, Alberto; Olivieri, Dino
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Prima Voce - Great Singers in Donizetti

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 1998-06-23

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Linda di Chamounix; Lucrezia Borgia; Don Pasquale; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Maria di Rudenz; La Favorita; Dom Sébastien; La figlia del reggimento
Performers: Albani, Carlo; Anselmi, Giuseppe; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badini, Ernesto; Battistini, Mattia; Bori, Lucrezia; Boronat, Olimpia; Butt, Clara, Dame; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galvany, Maria; Gigli, Beniamino; ...
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Ghione, Franco; Setti, Giulio; Sabajno, Carlo
Ensemble: ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

This two-CD set surveys one of the greatest periods of singing on record and includes many of the greatest exponents of their art: Marcel Journet,...continue...

Prima Voce - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Norma, opera; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Jules Massenet: Werther; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La Bohème; Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; La Fanciulla del West...
Performers: Borgonovo, Luigi; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Ghione, Franco; Cordone, Mario
Ensemble: ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra

Prima Voce - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi Sings Verdi

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello
Performers: Basiola, Marco; Bechi, Gino; Caniglia, Maria; Cattaneo-Minghini, Irene; de Luca, Giuseppe; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo; Manfrini, Luigi; Rethberg, Elisabeth
Conductors: Arduini, Renato; Ghione, Franco; Sabajno, Carlo; Zweig, Fritz; Bourdon, Rosario; Marinuzzi, Gino
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Iva Pacetti

1 CD / Preiser / 1996-06-18

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Alfredo Catalani: La Wally; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Pietro...
Performers: Franci, Benvenuto; Gigli, Beniamino; Mario Basiola, Jr.; Montesanto, Luigi; Pacetti, Iva
Conductors: Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ghione, Franco; Marinuzzi, Gino
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra

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Mafalda Favero - Arias and Duets

1 CD / Video Artists International / 1994-12-27

Works: Pietro Mascagni: L'Amico Fritz; Lodoletta; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Turandot; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Wolfgang Ama...
Performers: Ruotolo, Ines; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Vocals], Mafalda Favero [Soprano; Ziliani, Alessandro
Conductors: Sabino, Antonio; Ghione, Franco; Antonicelli, Giuseppe

Callas - La Divina 2

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 1994-07-19

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste; Orfeo ed Euridice; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Aida, opera; I vespri siciliani; La traviata; Don Carlos; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; ...
Performers: Berbié, Jane; Callas, Maria; Sautereau, Nadine
Conductors: Prêtre, Georges; Rescigno, Nicola; Serafin, Tullio; Ghione, Franco
Ensemble: French National Radio Orchestra; Lisbon San Carlos National Theater Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris ; Paris Opéra Orchestr...

Callas - La Divina

4 CD / EMI Classics / 1993-09-18

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Turandot; Tosca; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Alfredo Catalani: La Wally; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Vin...
Performers: Callas, Maria; Kraus, Alfredo [Tenor Vocals]; Ticozzi, Ebe
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Prêtre, Georges; Ghione, Franco; Rescigno, Nicola; Votto, Antonino