100 Best Puccini (excerpts from La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and others)
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PUCCINI
100 Best Puccini (excerpts from La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and others)
Various Artists including Roberto Alagna, Josa Van Dam, Angela Gheorghiu, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Robert Tear, etc
[ EMI Classics / 6 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Monday 29 September 2008
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In 2008 the world celebrated the 150th anniversary on 22 December of the birth of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), one of
the most popular composers of all time, and perhaps the last in the line of the gifted melodists and dramatists to shape the genre of Italian opera
Tracks:
DISC ONE:
LA BOHEME - featuring Nicolai Gedda, Mirella Freni, Mario Sereni, Mariella Adani, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro
dell'opera di Roma /Thomas Schippers
DISC TWO:
TOSCA - featuring Maria Callas, Carlo, Tito Gobbi, Renato Ercolani, Giorgio Tadeo, Ugo Trama, Choeurs du Théâtre
National de l'Opéra and Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire / Georges Prêtre
MADAMA BUTTERFLY featuring Victoria de los Angeles, Jussi Björling, Miriam Pirazzini, Mario Sereni, Piero de Palma, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
/ Gabriele Santini
DISC THREE:
MANON LESCAUT - featuring Montserrat Caballé, Placido Domingo, Vicente Sardinero, Robert Tear, Robert Lloyd, Ian Partridge, Gwynne Howell, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra / Bruno Bartoletti
DISC FOUR:
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST - featuring Birgit Nilsson, João Gibin, Andreà Mongelli, Enzo Sordello, Florindo Andreolli,
Giuseppe Costariol, Dino Mantovani, Dino Formichini, Antonio Costantino, Leonardo Monreale, Giuseppe Moresi, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano / Lovro von Matačić
LA RONDINE - featuring Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, William Matteuzzi, Inva Mula, Alberto Rinaldi, Patrizia Biccire, Patrizia Ciofi, Monica Bacelli, Toby Spence, Riccardo Simonetti ,Enrico Fissore, London Voices,
London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
DISC FIVE:
IL TABARRO - featuring Carlo Guelfi, Maria Guleghina, Neil Shicoff, Ricardo Cassinelli, Enrico Fissore, London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
SUOR ANGELICA - Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra / Myung-Whun Chung
GINANNI SCHICCHI - José Van Dam, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
TURANDOT - Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Renata Scotto, Angelo Mercuriali, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Guido Mazzini, Franco Ricciardi, Piero de Palma, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma / Francesco Molinari Pradelli
DISC SIX:
THE EARLY PUCCINI:
PRELUDIO SINFONICA - London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
LE VILLI - Roberto Alagna, London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
CRISANTEMI - London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
MESSA DI GLORIA - Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson baritone, London Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
