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
PUCCINI La Bohème
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
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly
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
PUCCINI Tosca
Studio recording, 1953
Total duration: 1hr 47:58
Maria Callas Tosca
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
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, La bohème, Gianni Schicchi, Turandot
VERDI Macbeth, Nabucco, Ernani
Ambient Stereo & Stereo studio recordings, 1954 & 1958
Total duration: 78:12
Maria Callas, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by Tullio Serafin & Nicola Rescigno
