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...
LYRIC ARIAS Suor Angelica, Adriana Lecouvreur, Andrea Chénier, La Wally, Mefistofele
COLORATURA ARIAS Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dinorah, Lakmé, I vespri siciliani
LA SCALA SCENES Medea, La sonnambula
Studio recordings, 1954 & 1955
Total duration: 79:15
Maria Callas, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
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
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
