Renato Ercolani
Renato Ercolani was an Italian tenor, active in opera and especially in supporting and character roles. He appeared in many post-war Italian studio recordings.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears repeatedly in Puccini, including La fanciulla del West, Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut, with Birgit Nilsson, Victoria de los Ángeles, Renata Tebaldi and other major artists.
Ercolani’s singing brought cla...
VERDI Il Trovatore
Studio recording, 1956
Total duration: 2hr 9:37
Maria Callas - Leonora
Rolando Panerai - Il Conte Di Luna
Fedora Barbieri - Azucena
Giuseppe Di Stefano - Manrico
Nicola Zaccaria - Ferrando
Coro e Orchestra de Teatro alla Scala, Milano
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
PUCCINI Turandot
Studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 1hr 58:00
Turandot - Maria Callas
Liù - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Calaf - Eugenio Fernandi
Altoum - Giuseppe Nessi
Timur - Nicola Zaccaria
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
conducted by Tullio Serafin
VERDI Un ballo in maschera
Studio recording, 1956
Total duration: 2hr 10:38
Amelia - Maria Callas
Riccardo - Giuseppe Di Stefano
Renato - Tito Gobbi
Ulrica - Fedora Barbieri
Oscar - Eugenia Ratti
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro Alla Scala, Milano
conducted by Antonino Votto
PUCCINI La fanciulla del West
Studio recording, 1958
Total duration: 2hr 6:22
Birgit Nilsson - Minnie
João Gibin - Dick Johnson
Andrea Mongelli - Jack Rance
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Lovro von Matačić
PONCHIELLI La Gioconda
Stereo studio recording, 1959
Total duration: 2hr 46:10
La Gioconda - Maria Callas
Laura Adorno - Fiorenza Cossotto
La Cieca - Irene Companeez
Alvise Badoero - Ivo Vinco
Enzo Grimaldo - Pier Miranda Ferraro
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
conducted by Antonino Votto
NB The earlier 1952 mono version of this recording is also available on Pristine PACO216
