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...
Broadcast performance, 1961
Total duration: 1hr 58:41
Anna Moffo Liù
Franco Corelli Calaf
Choir and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Leopold Stokowski, conductor
PUCCINI La Bohème
Studio recording, 1951
Total duration: 1hr 44:32
Renata Tebaldi Mimì
Hilde Gueden Musetta
Giacinto Prandelli Rodolfo
Giovanni Inghilleri Marcello
Fernando Corena Schaunard
Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by Alberto Erede
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly
Studio recording, 1951
Total duration: 2hr 10:52
Renata Tebaldi (soprano) - Madama Butterfly
Giuseppe Campora (tenor) - Pinkerton
Nell Rankin (mezzo-soprano) - Suzuki
Giovanni Inghilleri (baritone) - Sharpless
Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus & Orchestra
conducted by Alberto Erede
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut
Stereo studio recording, 1954
Total duration: 1hr 46:57
Renata Tebaldi Manon Lescaut
Mario Del Monaco Des Grieux
Mario Boriello Lescaut
Fernando Corena Geronte
Piero de Palma Edmondo
Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus & Orchestra
conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
PUCCINI Tosca
Studio recording, 1952
Total duration: 1hr 46:12
Renata Tebaldi (soprano) - Floria Tosca
Giuseppe Campora (tenor) - Cavaradossi
Enzo Mascherini (baritone) - Scarpia
Dario Caselli (bass) - Angelotti
Piero de Palma (tenor) - Spoletta
Antonio Sacchetti (baritone) - Sciarrone & Gaoler
Fernando Corena (bass) - Sacristan
Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus & Orchestra
conducted by Alberto Erede
Recorded live in London, 30 June 1955
Total duration: 1hr 50:15
Mario Cavaradossi - Ferruccio Tagliavini
Il barone Scarpia - Tito Gobbi
Cesare Angelotti - Michael Langdon
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the Covent Garden Opera
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor