Franco Calabrese
Franco Calabrese (1923-1992) was an Italian bass-baritone, active in opera and recording during the post-war period. He appeared with major Italian companies and in several important studio and broadcast documents.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Puccini and Rossini with Maria Callas, Tullio Serafin and La Scala forces.
Calabrese’s work belongs to the essential Italian supporting-singer tradition, where vocal weight, dic...
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut
Studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 2hr 0:35
Manon Lescaut - Maria Callas
Chevalier des Grieux - Giuseppe di Stefano
Lescaut - Giulio Fioravanti
Geronte di Ravoir - Franco Calabrese
Edmondo - Dino Formichini
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
conducted by Tullio Serafin
ROSSINI Il Turco in Italia
Studio recording, 1954
Total duration: 1hr 52:57
Fiorilla - Maria Callas
Selim - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Narciso - Nicolai Gedda
Geronio - Franco Calabrese
Zaida - Jolanda Gardino
Albazar - Piero de Palma
Il poeta - Mariano Stabile
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Chorus Master: Vittore Veneziani
conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni
