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Bellini: Norma (highlights), etc/ Molinari-Pradelli, Pedrini

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Semiramide; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello; Don Carlos; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chéni...
Performers: Acampora, Irene; Neri, Giulio; Pedrini, Maria; Penno, Gino; Stignani, Ebe [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Molinari-Pradelli, France; Tansini, Ugo; Camozzo, Adolfo
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

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...

Pietri: Maristella (Highlights) / Basile, Gigli, Galli, Corsi, Lazzari, et al

1 CD / Myto Records / 2008-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Pietri: Maristella
Performers: Artioli, Walter; Caselli, Dario; Corsi, Rina; Galli, Gianna; Gigli, Rina; Lazzari, Agostino; Perucci, Carlo; Tagliabue, Carlo
Conductors: ; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Verdi: I masnadieri / Mannino, Giaiotti, Petri, Ferrari, et al

2 CD / Myto Records / 2008-10-03

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: I masnadieri
Performers: Artioli, Walter; Ferrari, Ferrando; Giaiotti, Bonaldo; Limarilli, Gastone; Orlandi-Malaspina, Rita; Petri, Mario; Zerbini, Antonio
Conductors: ; Mannino, Franco
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

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

Giuseppe Di Stefano - The Complete Italian Radio Recordings 1952-1956

2 CD / Myto Records / 2008-07-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Madama Butterfly; Turandot; Il tabarro (The Cloak), opera; La Fanciulla del West; Manon Lescaut; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Friedrich v...
Performers: Di Stefano, Giuseppe
Conductors: Paoletti, Alberto; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Sanzogno, Nino
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Great sound including unpublished recordings - a unique Document remembering one of the greatest voices of the last century....continue...

Lecocq: La Figlia di Madama Angot / Gallino, Pagliughi, Salvi, Soley, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2008-04-05

Works: Charles Lecocq: La fille de Madame Angot
Performers: Gazzera, Giovanni; Pagliughi, Lina; Salvi, Giuseppina; Soley, Tommaso
Conductors: Gallino, Cesare;
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Verdi: Oberto, etc / Simonetto, Wolf-Ferrari, Vitale, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2008-01-04

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto; I lombardi
Performers: Bertocci, Aldo; Bonelli, Gino; Broilo, Renata; Gallo, Gustavo; Modesti, Giuseppe; Nicolai, Elena; Petri, Mario; Roan, Lydia; Vitale, Maria
Conductors: Simonetto, Alfredo; Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Milan; Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Birth of a Diva - Legendary Early Recordings / Maria Callas

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2007-10-16

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; I Puritani, opera
Performers: Albanese, Francesco [Tenor Vocal]; Barbieri, Fedora; Callas, Maria; Caruso, Mariano; Marietti, Ines; Silveri, Paolo
Conductors: Santini, Gabriele; Votto, Antonino; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Simply Callas - Ponchielli, Verdi, Wagner, etc

6 CD / Warner Classics / 2007-07-24

Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; I Puritani, opera; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata
Performers: Albanese, Francesco [Tenor Vocal]; Alberto Albertini [Bass/Baritone Vocal]; Amadini, Maria; Barbieri, Fedora; Benzi, Armando; Callas, Maria; Caruso, Mariano; Gandolfo, Ede Marietti; Marietti, Ines; M...
Conductors: Basile, Arturo; Votto, Antonino; Santini, Gabriele
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, etc / Matacic

4 CD / Myto Records / 2006-11-06

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Die Walküre
Performers: Botteghelli, Raimondo; Brunelli, Walter; Cadoni, Fernanda; Capecchi, Renato; Christoff, Boris; Ciavola, Giovanni; Franzini, Carlo; Giorgi, Ezio de; Gonzales, Renzo; Infantino, Luigi; Loomis, James; M...
Conductors: Matacic, Lovro von; Mannino, Franco
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

This is a splendid performance in Italian, featuring some of the best singers Italy could boast at the time....continue...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Basile, Scotto, Mattiucci, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-10-10

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Performers: Cioni, Renato; Maionica, Silvio [Bass vocals]; Mattiucci, Franca; Palombi, Luciana; Ricciardi, Franco; Rinaldi, Alberto; Scotto, Renata; Susca, Vito
Conductors: Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

"Scotto [is] in complete control of all her faculties... Remarkable!" - ClassicsToday.com...continue...

Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro / Boncompagni, Rinaldi, et al

2 CD / Bongiovanni / 2006-07-06

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro
Performers: Garaventa, Ottavio; Montefusco, Licinio; Rinaldi, Margherita; Socci, Gianni
Conductors: Boncompagni, Elio
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Encyclopedias will tell the reader that Dom STbastien (Paris 1843) was the last opera composed by Gaetano Donizetti, but although written earlier, Caterina Cornaro (Naples...continue...

Verdi: Alzira, etc / Rinaldi, Maag, Gulin, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2006-07-05

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Alzira; Stiffelio
Performers: Alberti, Walter; Carlin, Mario; Cecchele, Gianfranco; Gulin, Angeles; Limarilli, Gastone; Magrini, Vera; Manganotti, Gianfranco; Mazzoli, Ferruccio; Prior, Beniamino; Sereni, Mario; Zerbini, Antonio
Conductors: Rinaldi, Maurizio; Maag, Peter
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Parma Teatro Regio Chorus; Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Luciano Neroni

1 CD / Preiser / 2006-05-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Mosè in Egitto; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lamme...
Performers: Neroni, Luciano
Conductors: Rossi, Mario; Tansini, Ugo; Simonetto, Alfredo; Basile, Arturo; Parodi, Armando La Rosa; Ortus, Chitarrista Michele
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Born into a musical family (including a composer uncle, mezzo-soprano aunt and a conducting grandfather), Neroni was encouraged to train at the Conservatorio in Milan...continue...

Puccini: Edgar / Cillario, Luchetti, Sighele, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-04-11

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Edgar, opera
Performers: Casoni, Bianca Maria; Colella, Alfredo; Luchetti, Veriano; Scorsoni, Renzo; Sighele, Mietta
Conductors: Cillario, Carlo Felice
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

In later years Puccini himself disowned 'Edgar,' his second opera, referring to it as a "blunder," and yet even the least efforts of great composers...continue...

Ponchielli: I Lituani / Gavazzeni, Garaventa, Hayashi

2 CD / Bongiovanni / 2006-01-05

Works: Amilcare Ponchielli: I lituani
Performers: Cassis, Alessandro; Garaventa, Ottavio; Hayashi, Yasuko
Conductors: Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

In years dominated by a mature Verdi whose undisputable mastership had reached European dimensions, Ponchielli was possibly the most promising composer of his generation. His...continue...

Boito: Nerone / Gavazzeni, Prevedi, Ferrin, Ligabue, Baldani

2 CD / Bongiovanni / 2006-01-01

Works: Arrigo Boito: Nerone
Performers: Baldani, Ruza; Brighi, Walter; Cassis, Alessandro; Cocchieri, Vinicio; Corradi, Giampaolo; di Stasio, Anna; Ferrin, Agostino; Gonzales, Renzo; Ligabue, Ilva; Prevedi, Bruno; Vozza, Corinna; Zerbini, ...
Conductors: Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Cilèa: Gloria, etc / Previtali, Roberti, Labò, et al

2 CD / Bongiovanni / 2005-04-01

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Gloria; Il mio canto; Alba novella; Nel ridestarmi; VIta breve; Dolce amor di povertade; Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major, Op. 38
Performers: Albertini, Alberto; Campi, Enrico; Cianti, Fausta; De Lisi, Leonardo; Labo, Flaviano; Mazzoli, Ferruccio; Pepicelli, Angelo; Pepicelli, Francesco; Roberti, Margherita; Rota, Anna Maria; Testi, Lorenz...
Conductors: Previtali, Fernando
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Verdi: La forza del destino / Previtali, Bergonzi, et al

3 CD / Bongiovanni / 2005-04-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Francesco Paolo Tosti: Canzoni-stornelli (3); Romanze (2); Frédéric Chopin: Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 10; Arturo Buzzi-Peccia: Lolita "Spanish Ser...
Performers: Andreolli, Florindo; Bergonzi, Carlo; Cappuccilli, Piero; Del Vivo, Graziano; Ferrin, Agostino; Fiorentini, Mirella; Gusmeroli, Giovanni; Ligabue, Ilva; Magiera, Leone; Mattiucci, Franca; Rovetta, Te...
Conductors: Previtali, Fernando
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Leoncavallo: La reginetta delle rose / Gallino, Pagliughi

1 CD / Bongiovanni / 2005-03-02

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: La reginetta delle rose; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Franz Lehár: Cloclo; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon
Performers: Arrigo, Ornella d'; Avogadro, Liana; Diani, Giuseppe; Ferrein, Giuliano; Latinucci, Pier Luigi; Massucci, Riccardo; Pagliughi, Lina; Prandelli, Giacinto; Renzi, Emilio
Conductors: Gallino, Cesare
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Puccini: La Bohème, etc / Santini, Carteri, Tagliavini

2 CD / DS Classics / 2005-03-02

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell; Jules Massenet: Le roi de Lahore; Giacomo Meyerbeer: L'Africaine; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Un ballo in maschera
Performers: Carteri, Rosanna; Latinucci, Pier Luigi; Ramella, Elvina; Siepi, Cesare; Taddei, Giuseppe; Tagliavini, Ferruccio; Zorgniotti, Mario
Conductors: Santini, Gabriele
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Famous Voices of the Past - Maria Callas

1 CD / Preiser / 2004-08-01

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Performers: Albanese, Francesco [Tenor Vocal]; Barbieri, Fedora; Callas, Maria; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Gobbi, Tito; Panerai, Rolando; Rossi-Lemeni, Nicola; Savarese, Ugo; Silveri, Paolo
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Santini, Gabriele; De Sabata, Victor; Votto, Antonino
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Leoncavallo: Zazà; Franchetti: Germania / Arena, Argento

2 CD / Gala / 2004-03-06

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà, opera; Alberto Franchetti: Germania
Performers: Adani, Mariella; Bertocci, Aldo; Cocchieri, Vinicio; Pucci, Nelly; Romero, Angelo; Saldari, Luciano; Strow Piccolo, Lynne
Conductors: Arena, Maurizio; Argento, Pietro
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus; Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

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

2 CD / Gala / 2003-05-04

Works: Franco Alfano: Risurrezione; Riccardo Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini, opera
Performers: Allegri, Maria Grazia; Boyer, Antonio; Cadoni, Fernanda; Casolari, Egidio; Condo, Nucci; Del Monaco, Mario; di Stasio, Anna; Dimita, Wanda; Gismondo, Giuseppe; Magrini, Vera; Olivero, Magda; Pace, Pa...
Conductors: Boncompagni, Elio; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Spontini: La Vestale, etc / Previtali, Von Matacic, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2003-02-07

Works: Gasparo Spontini: La Vestale; Fernando Cortez
Performers: D'Amico, Italo; Del Bosco, Carlos; Ferrin, Agostino; Gencer, Leyla; Gulin, Angeles; Merolla, Roberto; Prevedi, Bruno
Conductors: Previtali, Fernando; Matacic, Lovro von
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Palermo Teatro Massimo Chorus; Palermo Teatro Massimo Orchestra

Busoni: Die Brautwahl /Previtali, Fourié, Sukis, Arié, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2003-02-07

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Die Brautwahl
Performers: Arie, Raphael; English, Gerald; Fourie, George; Nimsgern, Siegmund; Sukis, Lilian
Conductors: Previtali, Fernando
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Callas' Teacher / Maria Callas, Elvira de Hidalgo, et al

1 CD / Fono / 2002-09-03

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; La sonnambula, opera; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale...
Performers: Callas, Maria; Hidalgo, Elvira de
Conductors: Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Recitals - Marilyn Horne - Arias & Scenes

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2001-10-30

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Guidò Marte i nostri passi, for tenor, chorus & orchestra (insertion aria for Niccolin...
Performers: de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Gedda, Nicolai; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Fisher, John; Lewis, Henry; Franci, Carlo; Schippers, Thomas
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra

These recordings of America's leading mezzo-soprano from the late 1960s and early 1970s show her in the prime of her early career performing some of...continue...

Verdi: Aroldo / Basile, Vitale, Campagnano, Panerai, et al

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2001-09-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aroldo
Performers: Panerai, Rolando
Conductors: Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Recitals - Marilyn Horne Vol 1

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-08-15

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola
Performers: Gedda, Nicolai; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Fisher, John; Lewis, Henry; Franci, Carlo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra

Meyerbeer: Le Prophète / Horne, Gedda, Lewis, et al

3 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-05-16

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète
Performers: Carmeli, Boris; Gedda, Nicolai; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Hage, Robert Amis el; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Peter, Fritz; Rinaldi, Margherita
Conductors: Lewis, Henry
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

This performance was one of the seminal influences in the Meyerbeer revival, with peerless performances in the two leading roles. Ms. Horne was married to...continue...

Rossini: La Donna del Lago / Bellugi, Caballé, Bonisolli

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 1999-08-17

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La Donna del Lago
Performers: Balboni, Anna Maria; Bonisolli, Franco; Bottazzo, Pietro; Caballé, Montserrat; Hamari, Julia [Contralto Vocals]; Sinimberghi, Gino; Washington, Paolo
Conductors: Bellugi, Piero
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Il Mito Dell'Opera - Daniele Barioni

1 CD / Bongiovanni / 1993-07-01

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La Fanciulla del West; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; La Rondine; Manon Lescaut; La Bohème; Turandot; Umberto Giordano: Fedora; Andrea Chénier; Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccaneg...
Performers: Barioni, Daniele; Chiara, Maria; De Cavalieri, Anna; Modesti, Girolamo
Conductors: Ziino, Ottavio; Scaglia, Ferruccio; Guarnieri, Ferdinando; Basile, Arturo; Rossi, Mario; Manno, Vincenzo; Argento, Pietro; La Rosa Parodi, Armando
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra