Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he successfully developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.
Puccini's most renowned works are La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (1924), all of which are among the important operas played as standards.
Both during his lifetime and in posterity, Puccini's success outstripped other Italian opera composers of his time, and he has been matched in this regard by only a handful of composers in the entire history of opera. Eleven of Puccini's operas are numbered among the 200 most-performed operas (worldwide, by composers of any nationality, as surveyed by Operabase). Three of his works (La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly) rank among the top ten works performed, and Puccini ranks third (behind Verdi and Mozart) in the number of performances of his operas over all.
Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he successfully developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.
Puccini's most renown...
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
Studio Recording · 1956
Total duration: 1hr 45:23
Maria Callas - Mimì
Giuseppe Di Stefano - Rodolfo
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Antonino Votto, conductor
Studio recording · 1955
Total duration: 2hr 18:18
Maria Callas - Butterfly
Nicolai Gedda - Pinkerton
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Studio recording, 1953
Total duration: 1hr 47:58
Giuseppe di Stefano Cavaradossi
Tito Gobbi Scarpia
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Conductor Victor de Sabata
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly
Stereo studio recording, 1959
Total duration: 2hr 16:44
Cio Cio San - Victoria de los Ángeles
Pinkerton - Jussi Björling
Sharpless - Mario Sereni
Suzuki - Miriam Pirazzini
Chorus and Orchestra of Rome Opera House
conducted by Gabriele Santini
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
REGER Four Tone Poems after Böcklin
IBERT Escales
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos
CHOPIN/ROGAL-LEVITZKY Chopiniana
MENOTTI Sebastian - Ballet Suite
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
Live and Studio recordings, 1945-47
Total duration: 3hr 32:16
Vitya Vronsky, piano
Victor Babin, piano
Dimitri Mitropoulos, piano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia
conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos