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Opera d'Oro Grand Tier - Labels

   Found CDs: 9
 

SIMON BOCCANEGRA - VERDI

SIMON BOCCANEGRA - VERDI
ID: OPD7076
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

A brilliant live performance from Salzburg in 1961. Baritone Tito Gobbi, one of the great singing actors of his era, is indelibly vivid as the tortured title character in this dark masterpiece. This is the only complete recording at mid-price, with newly translated Italian-English libretto and an extensive background essay on the opera.

Featured Artists
Tito Gobbi, Leyla Gencer, Giorgio Tozzi, Giuseppe Zampieri, Rolando Panerai: vocal soloists
Orchestra & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
Gianandrea Gavazzeni: conductor
25.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

Verdi - Falstaff (complete opera)

Verdi - Falstaff (complete opera)
ID: OPD7041
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

Mariano Stabile, Renata Tebaldi, Cesare Valletti, et al.: vocal soloists / La Scala Orchestra and Chorus / Victor de Sabata: conductor

Verdi’s last opera, written when he was approaching eighty, was only the second comedy of his long career, following the ill-fated Un giorno di regno of fifty years before. His friend and collaborator Arrigo Boito, who had with some difficulty talked him into composing Otello several years earlier, now had an easier time convincing him to crown his glory with one more tribute to his beloved Shakespeare. The three principals are all famous portrayers of their roles, aided by an outstanding supporting cast. Mariano Stabile was a veteran Italian basso buffo who had the role of Falstaff in his belly, if not his bones. Renata Tebaldi was the most famous Italian lyric soprano of her era and she remains, along with Maria Callas, the most loved soprano of recent years. Cesare Valletti was a tenore di grazia, a tenor with a light, flexible head voice of exquisite beauty. Live performance, Milan, May 26, 1951.

Ilustration © Rafal Olbinski
25.00 eur Buy

Puccini - La fanciulla del West (complete opera)

Puccini - La fanciulla del West (complete opera)
ID: OPD7036
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

Franco Corelli, Tito Gobbi, Gigliola Frazzoni, et al.: vocal soloists / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan / Antonino Votto: conductor

Live performance, Milan, April 4, 1956. Puccini made a big hit with the American public when his new opera, The Girl of the Golden West, had its fi rst performance, not in Italy but at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with Emmy Destinn and Enrico Caruso in the leading roles, and Toscanini conducting. The enthralled audience called out the composer and cast forty-seven times and placed on Puccini’s head a silver crown bearing the national colors of Italy and the US. When Franco Corelli died recently in Milan at the age of eighty-two, the opera world lost one of its most colorful figures, and the most thrilling Italian tenor of his generation. With his powerful voice and movie-star looks, Corelli became an opera matinee idol from the 1950s until his retirement in 1976. Opera d’Oro’s Grand Tier series presents the best-selling Opera d’Oro titles with libretto and deluxe new packaging at mid-price!

Ilustration © Rafal Olbinski
25.00 eur Buy

Rosini - La Cenerentola (complete opera)

Rosini - La Cenerentola (complete opera)
ID: OPD7019
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

Teresa Berganza, Nicola Monti,Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Ornella Rovero,Mitì Truccato Pace & Leonardo Monreale, vocal soloists/Chorus of Teatro San Carlo & RAI Symphony Orchestra, Naples/Mario Rossi, conductor

Among Rossini’s numerous comic operas, La Cenerentola (1817) has long held a place second only to The Barber of Seville. In fact, for many years it was often more popular than The Barber, until its extreme vocal difficulties became too much for a generation of singers not trained in the Rossini style, and its fantastic atmosphere fell afoul of a preference for verismo, the school of realism. In recent years, the revival of the bel canto style and intense interest in resurrecting authentic Rossini manuscripts has brought about a happy new lease on life for La Cenerentola, which once again is rivaling The Barber in popularity. The libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, though based on the Cinderella fairy tale as told by Charles Perrault, is far different in tone. Rossini and Ferretti agreed to suppress the supernatural themes and create a comedy of manners steeped in irony. This live performance, recorded in Naples in 1958, is one of the finest of its era, with a virtual all-star cast thoroughly schooled in the Rossini style.

Ilustration © Rafal Olbinski
25.00 eur Buy

Richard Strauss - Salome

Richard Strauss - Salome
ID: OPD7004
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

Leonie Rysanek, Hans Hopf, Eberhard Wächter, Grace Hoffman,Waldemar Kmentt, Murray Dickie, Kurt Equiluz, et al., vocal soloists/Orchestra & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera/Karl Böhm, conductor

Live performance, 1972, with a world-class cast, comparable to the best available anywhere. As with the other releases in the new Grand Tier series, this opera recording includes a full libretto in the original language and in English. Karl Böhm was one of the greatest Strauss conductors of all time, and his cast assembled here is truly stellar. Soprano Leonie Rysanek was legendary in the Strauss and Wagner roles.
Includes a 48-page deluxe booklet! Ilustration © Rafal Olbinski

Track Listing 1. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Wie schön ist die Prinzessin Salome heute nacht! 2. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Ich will nicht bleiben 3. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Wo ist er, dessen Sündenbecher jetzt voll ist? 4. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Intermezzo 5. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Wo ist Salome? Wo ist die Prinzessin? 1. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Tanz für mich, Salome 2. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Dance of the Seven Veils 3. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Ah! Herrlich! 4. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Still, sprich nicht zu mir! 5. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen lassen 6. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Sie ist ein Ungeheuer, deine Richter
25.00 eur Buy

Manon Lescaut - PUCCINI

Manon Lescaut - PUCCINI
ID: OPD7050
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

Domingo/Olivero
25.00 eur Buy

Pelleas et Melisande - DEBUSSY

Pelleas et Melisande - DEBUSSY
ID: OPD7047
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

Guy/Pilou
25.00 eur Buy

Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera)

Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera)
ID: OPD7035
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

Live performance, Berlin, September 29, 1955. One of the greatest live complete opera recordings starring Maria Callas, and the best of her recordings of Lucia di Lammermoor. Selected as one of the best performances from the vast Opera d’Oro catalog and reissued with new packaging, performance notes from Callas biographer Robert Levine, the fabulous cover art of Rafal Olbinski, and complete libretto newly translated by Bill Parker.
Vocals:
Luisa Villa, Maria Callas,Giuseppe di Stefano, Giuseppe Zampieri, Rolando Panerai, Mario Carlin


Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Nicola Zaccaria, et al.: vocal soloists RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin & La Scala Theater Chorus Herbert von Karajan: conductor
25.00 eur Buy

Mozart - Don Giovanni (complete opera)

Mozart - Don Giovanni (complete opera)
ID: OPD7080
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

Live performance, Rome, May 12, 1970. Features original artwork by Rafal Olbinski, re-mastered sound, and 76-page booklet with historic photos. Complete Italian-English libretto newly translated for this release, with an extensive essay on the history and interpretation of the opera. Don Giovanni is commonly considered Mozart’s finest opera, and is often nominated by connoisseurs as the greatest of all operas. The music is of the highest quality throughout; there is hardly a number from beginning to end that is not memorable in some way. And although there are facets of the story that have sparked ongoing controversy, the wide spectrum of its humanity is paramount.
Featured Artists Nicolai Ghiaurov, Gundula Janowitz, Alfredo Kraus, Sena Jurinac, Sesto Bruscantini: vocal soloists RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of Rome Carlo Maria Giulini: conductor
30.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

 
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