Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) was an Italian composer and one of the central figures of bel canto opera. Born in Bergamo, he emerged between Rossini and Verdi as one of the most prolific and dramatically flexible opera composers of the nineteenth century.
His catalogue includes more than sixty operas, among them Lucia di Lammermoor, L’elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale, La favorita and the so-called Tudor...
DONIZETTI La Favorita
Stereo studio recording, 1955
Total duration: 2hr 09:10
Gianni Poggi - Fernando
Giulietta Simionato - Leonora
Ettore Bastianini - Alfonso
Jerome Hines - Baldassare
Piero de Palma - Don Gasparo
Bice Magnani - Ines
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Chorus & Orchestra
conducted by Alberto Erede
DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor
Stereo studio recording, 1959
Total duration: 1hr 50:50
Lucia - Maria Callas
Edgardo - Ferruccio Tagliavini
Enrico - Piero Cappuccilli
Raimondo - Bernard Ladysz
Arturo - Leonard del Ferro
Alisa - Margreta Elkins
Normanno - Renzo Casellato
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Tullio Serafin
DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor
Studio recordings, 1953 and 1949
Total duration: 2hr 12:58
Maria Callas - Lucia
Giuseppe Di Stefano - Edgardo
Tito Gobbi - Enrico
Chorus & Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale, Florence
Tullio Serafin, conductor
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Arturo Basile, conductor
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
SCHUBERT "Unfinished" Symphony No. 8
MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture
WAGNER Rienzi Overture
BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture, Hungarian Dances
J. STRAUSS II Tales from the Vienna Woods - Waltz
BERLIOZ Benventuo Cellini Overture
THOMAS Raymond Overture
DONIZETTI Daughter of the Regiment Overture
LUIGINI Ballet égyptien
RUBINSTEIN Toréador et Andalouse
VLADIGEROV Bulgarian Suite
Studio recordings, 1928-1933
Total duration: 2hr 29:07
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin-Charlottenburg Opera Orchestra
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
conducted by Julius Prüwer
SPONTINI La vestale
VERDI Don Carlo
DONIZETTI Anna Bolena
THOMAS Hamlet
BELLINI Il pirata
Ambient Stereo and stereo studio recordings, 1955 & 1958
Total duration: 75:20
Maria Callas, soprano
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Nicola Rescigno
DONIZETTI L'elisir d'amore
Broadcast performance, 1942
Total duration: 2hr 00:23
Bidú Sayão Adina
Bruno Landi Nemorino
Choir and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Ettore Panizza, conductor
