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 Tosca (r. 1953)
PUCCINI La Bohème (r. 1956)
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly (r. 1955)
PUCCINI Turandot (r. 1957)
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut (r. 1957)
Five EMI studio opera recordings in Ambient Stereo XR remasters, recorded at La Scala, Milan
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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
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
PUCCINI Tosca
Studio recording, 1962
Total duration: 1hr 52:58
Leontyne Price - Floria Tosca
Giuseppe di Stefano - Cavaradossi
Giuseppe Taddei - Scarpia
Carlo Cava - Angelotti
Piero de Palma - Spoletta
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Recorded in Milan, 1929-30
Total duration: 1hr 47:06
Piero Pauli
Apollo Granforte
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
conducted by Carlo Sabajno
Acoustic studio recordings, 1919-1924
Total duration: 64:44
The Philadelphia Orchestra