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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Il Tabarro – Suor Angelica –
Gianni SchicchiStage Director: Cristina Pezzoli
Amarilli Nizza & Alberto Mastromarino Orchestra della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini & Coro Lirico Amadeus, Julian Reynolds Teatro Comunale di Modena, 2007 “The pretty girl with the pretty name appears to have a naturally beautiful voice, a lyric soprano….remarkable for the purity of its upper notes …..[and] firm and not without colour in the low register.” Gramophone on Amarilli Nizzi “Fairly ordinary performances. Nizza is a decent Giorgetta and Angelica but a blowsy Lauretta, Mastromarino an unmenacing Michele and a charisma-free Schicchi.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 *** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge “… this is a performance, warm without sentimentality or self-indulgence, which combined with vivid recording and effective stage-production … makes this the most involving version yet of a work which seems to grow in strength with the years.” Gramophone December 1979 (Suor Angelica) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Sylvia Sass, Nicola Marinucci, Rosalind Plowright, Dunja Vejzovich, Juan Pons Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Mirella Freni, Leo Nucci, Juan Pons, Giuseppe Giacomini, Elena Souliotis & Roberto Alagna Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bruno Bartoletti | 
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| |  | Puccini - Il Trittico
Puccini: | Il tabarro Tito Gobbi, Giacinto Prandelli, Piero De Palma, Plinio Clabassi, Margaret Mas, Miriam Pirazzini, Renato Ercolani, Piero De Palma & Silvia Bertona Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Vincenzo Bellezza Suor Angelica Victoria De Los Angeles, Fedora Barbieri, Mina Doro, Corinna Vozza, Mina Doro, Lidia Marimpietri, Santa Chissari, Anna Marcangeli, Lidia Marimpietri, Lidia Marimpietri, Santa Chissari, Silvia Bertona, Maria Huder & Santa Chissari Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Tullio Serafin Gianni Schicchi Tito Gobbi, Victoria De Los Angeles, Anna Maria Canali, Carlo Del Monte, Adelio Zagonara, Lidia Marimpietri, Claudio Cornoldi, Sturno Meletti, Paolo Montarsolo, Fernando Valentini, Giuliana Raymondi, Alfredo Mariotti, Virgilio Stoco & Paolo Caroli Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Gabriele Santini |
Il trittico was first heard in Italy, in Rome, in January 1919. The easy success achieved by Gianni Schicchi wherever it was performed meant that soon theatres were giving it paired with other works. This dismayed Puccini, though later he had to bow to the inevitable. The three operas together, though, have a special unity. Puccini, such a man of the theatre, constructed them in such a way that the theatregoer or listener at home, enjoys the contrast all the more if they are heard in sequence as intended. These recordings were made at the Rome Opera over three years, and with three conductors. (Gianni Schicchi alone was late enough to be caught in stereo.) They are held together by the casting of Tito Gobbi in the baritone roles in the first and third opera, and by Victoria de los Angeles as the soprano in the second and third. As Patrick O’Connor’s absorbing note relates, both singers were at the zenith of their careers in the late 1950s. Gobbi first sang in Gianni Schicchi as a beginner in 1939, in the role of Betto di Signa, ‘the poorest of Buoso Donati's relations’. When he was later planning to take on the title-role, he studied the opera with the librettist Forzano, who insisted ‘Our work must be serious. It is for the other people to laugh and enjoy it.’ For Gobbi, the character was essentially ‘A mature man, of course, but with here and there a touch of sharpness, some subtle inflection reminiscent of youthful cheek…still keeping the character of the roguish Florentine boy he once was.’ The recordings have been newly transferred and remastered to ART standard at Abbey Road Studios. |
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Renata Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Fernando Corena & Giulietta Simionato Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lamberto Gardelli Recorded: Teatro Pergola, Florence, July 1962 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Neil Shicoff, Maria Guleghia, Carlo Guelfi, Christian Gallardo-Domas, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Dorothea Röschmann, Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, José van Damm London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Puccini Great Opera Collection
Puccini: | Manon Lescaut Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, Mario Boriello, Fernando Corena & Piero de Palma Francesco Molinari-Pradelli La Bohème Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Gianna d'Angelo, e Bastianini, to Cesari, Cesare Siepi, Fernando Corena & Piero de Palma Tullio Serafin Tosca Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, George London, Silvio Maionica & Fernando Corena Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Madam Butterfly Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Goro Angelo Mercuriali, Fiorenza Cossotto & Enzo Sordello Tullio Serafin La fanciulla del West Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Cornell Macneil, Piero di Palma & Silvio Maionica Franco Capuana Turandot Inge Borkh, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Bicola Zaccaria, Fernando Corena, Mario Carlin, Renato Ercolani, Gaetano Fanelli & Ezio Giordano Alberto Erede Il Trittico Robert Merrill, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato & Fernando Corena Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lamberto Gardelli |
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Puccini (22 December). Decca’s recordings of Puccini’s operas rank among the very finest ever committed to disc. This legacy was started in 1951 when Renata Tebaldi made her first recording of Madama Butterfly and throughout the rest of the 1950s Tebaldi recorded Puccini’s other major operas. At the end of the 1950s new stereo versions were made of Madama Butterfly and La Bohème. Tebaldi was cast alongside such distinguished colleagues as Carlo Bergonzi and Mario del Monaco and acclaimed opera maestri at the helm of these recordings include Francesco Molinari-Pradelli and Tullio Serafin. This collection of the great Puccini operas includes the stereo versions of Butterfly and Bohème and is the ideal collection of some of the world’s most popular and enduring operas in acclaimed recordings that have been an integral part of Decca’s legendary opera catalogue for the past fifty years. | | Decca - 4759385 (CD - 15 discs) Normally: $65.99 Special: $46.19 |
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| |  | Puccini – The Operas
Puccini: | Manon Lescaut Montserrat Caballé & Placido Domingo New Philharmonia, Bruno Bartoletti La Bohème Mirella Freni & Nicolai Gedda Rome Opera Orchestra, Thomas Schippers Tosca Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi & Tito Gobbi Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Georges Prêtre Madama Butterfly Victoria de los Angeles & Jussi Björling Rome Opera Orchestra, Gabriele Santini La fanciulla del West Birgit Nilsson & João Gibin La Scala Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic La Rondine Robert Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano Le Villi (highlights) Robert Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano Il tabarro Neil Shicoff & Maria Guleghina London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano Suor Angelica Cristina Gallardo-Domâs Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano Gianni Schicchi Tito Gobbi & Victoria de los Angeles Rome Opera Orchestra, Gabriele Santini Turandot Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli & Renata Scotto Rome Opera Orchestra, Francesco Molinari Pradelli |
This 17 CD budget box set is one of four special albums being released by EMI Classics on 8 September 2008 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary on 22 December of the birth of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Puccini is one of today’s most popular operatic composers. His works dominate the programmes of the world’s leading opera houses, and his compositions are heard frequently on radio and television, in film soundtracks and in TV commercials. All of Puccini’s popular operas are represented, including Manon Lescaut, La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, as well as the less frequently heard titles La rondine, La fanciulla del West and Il trittico (Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi). Also included are highlights from Le villi, an early work by Puccini that is almost never performed these days. The recordings (all stereo) come from EMI’s unrivalled operatic catalogue and feature some of the greatest stars in the world of opera. |
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| |  | Puccini - The Complete Operas
Puccini: | Tosca Stereo 1972 Leontyne Price, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Paul Plishka New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta La Bohème Stereo 1973 Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Sherrill Milnes, Judith Blegen, Ruggero Raimondi London Philharmonic Orchestra, George Solti Madama Butterfly Stereo 1978 Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Ingvar Wixell, Gillian Knight Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel Turandot Stereo 1998 (Live) Giovanna Casolla, Sergej Larin, Barbara Frittoli, Aldo Bottion Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta Le Villi Stereo 1979 Plácido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Leo Nucci, Tito Gobbi National Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel Edgar Stereo 1977 Carlo Bergonzi, Renata Scotto, Gwendolyn Killebrew New York City Opera Orchestra, Eve Queler Manon Lescaut Stereo 1992 Nina Rautio, Peter Dvorsky, Gino Quilico, Luigi Roni, Aldo Bramante Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel La fanciulla del West Stereo 1991 (Live) Mara Zampieri, Plácido Domingo, Juan Pons, Sergio Bertocchi, Luigi Roni Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel La Rondine Stereo 1966 Anna Moffo, Daniele Barioni, Mario Sereni, Graziella Sciutti, Piero de Palma RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Gianni Schicchi Stereo 1977 Tito Gobbi, Ileana Cotrubas, Plácido Domingo London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel Suor Angelica Stereo 1977 Renata Scotto, Marilyn Horne, Ileana Cotrubas New Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel Il tabarro Stereo 1977 Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Ingvar Wixell New Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel |
The complete operas of Giacomo Puccini, released in an attractive box set to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth in December 2008. December 12, 2008 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest composers of opera, Giacomo Puccini. Sony BMG Masterworks celebrates this Jubilee with its COMPLETE OPERAS EDITION, which for the first time combines all of Puccini’s operatic works in this exclusive 20-disc edition. |
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