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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlo (complete opera) Antonietta Stella, Fedora Barbieri, Mario Filippeschi, Tito Gobbi, Boris Christoff / Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Gabriele Santini [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 7/Feb/2006 ] "Gobbi goes from strength to strength … Rodrigo's noble death scene elicits from this artist some of the loveliest baritone singing I have ever heard on record.With the cardinal rôles of the King and Posa finely done, with beautifully moulded... |
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GIACOMO PUCCCINI
Puccini: Madam Butterfly (complete opera recorded in 1960) Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Enzo Sordell, Fiorenza Cossotto / Chorus & Orchestra Of Accademia St. Cecilia, Rome, Tullio Serafin [ Alto / 2 CD - released 11/Apr/2011 ] "sensitive and beautifully-paced reading finds Tebaldi at her most radiant. … her singing is consistently rich and beautiful, breathtakingly so in passages like the one where she tells Pinkerton she has changed her religion." (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
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R. STRAUSS / VERDI / PUCCINI / BIZET / GERSHWIN / BERLIOZ / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Essential Leontyne Price Leontyne Price (soprano) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Rome Opera Orchestra, with Placido Domingo & Marilyn Horne [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Price attended Central State University and then Juilliard, where she had her operatic debut as Mistress Ford in Verdi's Falstaff. Having heard the performance, Virgil Thomson engaged her in Four Saints in Three Acts. |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini - Madama Butterfly (Highlights from the complete opera) Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Campora, Nell Rankin, Giovanni Inghilleri / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Alberto Erede [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] "Tebaldi rises to every climax with opulent, unforced tone..Giuseppe Campora appeared regularly at the Met between 1955 and 1965. He sings naturally and musically, with no forcing of his attractive, lightish voice at climaxes." MusicWeb |
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PUCCINI / VERDI / LEONCAVALLO / WAGNER / GOUNOD / etc
Grand Opera Choruses (Madama Butterfly, Fidelio, Lohengrin, Carmen, etc) Vienna State Opera / London Opera Chorus / Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome / Ambrosian Opera Chorus [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 1/Jan/1988 ] All the great opera choruses on one CD |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera recorded in 1967) Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Anna di Stasio, Rolando Panerai / Rome Opera, Sir John Barbirolli [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 25/Apr/2018 ] 'a performance that will remind you of the first time you fell in love with this opera' (Good CD Guide) |
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GUISEPPE MARTUCCI
Martucci: Orchestral Music (Complete), Vol. 1 - Symphony No. 1 / Nocturne / Andante / Canzonetta / Giga Andrea Noferini (cello) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The foremost Italian orchestral composer of the late nineteenth century, as well as an accomplished pianist and conductor, Giuseppe Martucci was one of the first of a line of composers, which included Sgambati, Mancinelli and Faccio and, later,... |
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VERDI
La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1960) Anna Moffo, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill / Rome Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Fernando Previtali [ Alto / 2 CD - released 20/May/2015 ] An all-American trio of opera stars provides Verdi's timeless masterpiece with an interpretation equally timeless. |
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RAFFAELLO DE BANFIELD
Lord Byron's Love Letter (complete opera recorded in 1958) Astrid Varnay / Gertrude Ribla / Nicoletta Carruba / Mario Carlin / Academy Symphony Orchestra of Rome / Nicola Rescigno [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] The RCA Victor recording of Raffaello de Banfield's 1955 opera Lord Byron's Love Letter is a true rarity, remaining in their catalogue for only a short time and never reissued on CD before now. Based on a Tennessee Williams play set in late... |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (Complete opera recorded in 1992) BLU-RAY Catherine Malfitano, Placido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi / Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Rome RAI, Zubin Mehta [ Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Recorded live in July 1992 - REMASTERED IN HIGH DEFINITION FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPE. |
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CASELLA
Symphony No. 1 / Concerto for strings, piano, timpani & percussion Desiree Seuccuglia (piano) Antonio Ceravolo (percussion) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] This first of four recordings of Alfredo Casella's orchestral music couples his first and last purely orchestral works. Completed the day before his 23rd birthday, the Symphony No. 1, which here receives its world première recording, exudes a... |
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GUISEPPE MARTUCCI
Orchestral Music Vol. 4 - Piano Concerto No. 2 / Momento Musicale e Minuetto / Novelleta Gesualdo Coggi (piano) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "Francesco La Vecchia elicits ... incisive string playing and ... penetrating woodwind articulation in the neo-Wagnerian First symphony ... aided by Naxos' rich, dazzlingly detailed engineering ... A fine start to a promising cycle, warmly... |
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GUISEPPE MARTUCCI
Orchestral Works Vol. 3 - Piano Concerto No. 1 / La canzone dei ricordi Gesualdo Coggi (piano) Silvia Pasini (mezzo-soprano) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco la Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "This is a not-to-be-missed series." (AudAud Five Stars Nov 2009) |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (complete opera recorded in 1943) Gino Bechi, Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli / Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Great Opera Recordings) Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) Licia Albanese (Soprano ) / Rome Opera Chorus, Rome Opera Orchestra, Jonel Perlea (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] "no one can afford to be without this version, for the overall excellence but especially for Jussi Björling's unsurpassable des Grieux, now that it is available at Naxos price" (MusicWeb March 2006) |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 1955) [with other operatic excerpts featuring Robert Merrill] Jussi Bjorling (tenor) Roberta Peters (soprano) / Robert Merrill (baritone) / Rome Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Jonel Perlea [ Naxos Historical Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] When this 1956 recording of Rigoletto was first released in Britain, The Gramophone reviewer commented: "under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice. |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 1955) Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) Zinka Milanov (Soprano) Fedora Barbieri (mezzo-soprano) / Rome Opera House Orchestra / Jonel Perlea (Conductor) [ Sony RCA Classical Opera / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] Famed for her raptly floated pianissimi, Croatian-born soprano Zinka Milanov was the Met's leading lady for three decades until her 1966 farewell. Here she stars as Verdi's Ethiopian slave alongside Jussi Björling as a superbly heroic Radamès,... |
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VERDI
Aida (complete opera recorded in 1955) Plus highlights from Un Ballo in Maschera (rec 1955) Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) / Zinka Milanov (Soprano) / Fedora Barbieri (mezzo-soprano) / Rome Opera House Orchestra / Jonel Perlea (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 3 CD - released 16/Jul/2006 ] The Aida recording was transferred from the best portions of three American LP pressings, while the Ballo highlights came from an Italian LP. |
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GUISEPPE MARTUCCI
Orchestral Music, Vol. 2: Symphony No. 2 / Theme and Variations / Tarantella / Gavotta Lya de Barberiis (piano) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] This is a not-to-be-missed series." (AudAud Five Stars Nov 2009) |
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PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly (Complete opera 1951 recording) Renata Tebaldi / Giuseppe Campora / Nell Rankin / Giovanni Inghilleri / Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome / Alberto Erede, [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] Renata Tebaldi (b.1922) studied at the Boito Conservatorio in Parma, before making her début as Elena in Mefistofele at Rovigo in 1944. She sang for Toscanini at the opening concert at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in 1946. Later that season she was... |
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VERDI
Aida (complete opera recorded in 1952) Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ebe Stignani, Aldo Protti / Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Alberto Erede [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Recorded 1952 |
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PUCCINI
Tosca (highlights from the complete opera) Renata Tebaldi, Monaco del Monaco, George London / St Cecilia, Rome, Francesco Molinari-Pradel [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 16/Nov/2014 ] Highlights from the classic recording |
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Serafin/Rome Opera
Verdi:messa Da Requiem [ Testament / 2 CD ] |
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WILLIAM PERRY
The Innocents Abroad & other Mark Twain films Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Rome Philharmonic / Vienna Symphony Orchestra / William Perry [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "This is a nice CD to add to your collection given the exceptional value that Naxos is in the marketplace. Highly recommended." --Review by sdtom.wordpress.com |
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Sublime With Rome
Yours Truly [ Atlantic Records / CD - released 5/Mar/2012 ] Sublime with Rome is a musical collaboration between Eric Wilson, Bud Gaugh (both formerly of the band Sublime) and singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez. |
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ALFREDO CASELLA
Casella: Symphony No. 2 / A notte alta Sun Hee You (piano) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "One of Casella's subtlest creations, it receives a fine performance from the Rome Symphony Orchestra and Francesco La Vecchia" Gramophone |
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GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Cenerentola (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Teatro Opera of Rome / Serena Malfi, Juan Francisco Gatell, Alessandro Corbelli, Vito Priante / Alejo Pérez (cond) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jan/2020 ] Rossini's second masterpiece La Cenerentola premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome on the 25th of January 1817, less than a year after the first performance of his The Barber of Seville and it ́s pure, perfect Rossini. In this production, a set-up... |
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PUCCINI
Il Tabarro (Complete opera 1955 recording) [plus opera arias sung by Tito Gobbi] Tito Gobbi (baritone) Giacinto Prandelli (tenor) Margaret Mas (soprano) / Rome Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Vincenzo Bellezza [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "All in all this is an essential buy. If you don't have it already, then get it. You will probably want other more modern accounts of the work, though there are not many in the current catalogue. But for dramatic truth this one can hardly be... |
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PUCCINI
Il Tabarro (with bonus tracks 'Great Voices Sing Puccini') Titp Gobbi, Giacinto Prandelli, Margarety Mas / Rome Opera House / Vincenzo Bellezza [ Regis Records / CD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] "Tito Gobbi giving his ripest characterizations..the central role of the cuckolded bargemaster... inspires him to one of his very finest performances on record... conveys the sense of horror far more keenly than any (other)" (Penguin Guide) |
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PUCCINI
Suor Angelica (complete opera recorded in 1957) Victoria de los Angeles / Fedora Barbieri / Rome Opera / Tullio Serafin [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Victoria de los Angeles's performance as Sister Angelica demands superlatives: 'it is in every way perfect, beautifully sung, infinitely touching, and free from the slightest suggestion of theatricality', wrote The Gramophone when this recording was... |
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PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly (complete opera recorded in 1954) [with bonus tracks] Victoria de los Angeles, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi / Chorus & Orchestra, Rome Opera / Ginandrea Gavazzeni (conductor) [ Regis Records / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] "Los Angeles herself is adorable,... the voice in richest bloom here, the portrayal almost unbearably vivid in charm and magnanimity." - Gramophone |
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VERDI
Simon Boccanegra (complete opera recorded in 1957) Victoria de los Angeles / Tito Gobbi / Boris Christoff / Giuseppe Campora / Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Gabriele Santini [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2009 ] "Go on, treat yourself: this is Gobbi, Christoff and de Los Angeles in spectacular form." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
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ENNIO MORRICONE
Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Rome Sinfonietta Orchestra, Ennio Morricone [ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Oct/2004 ] The genesis for this recording began during the Academy Awards in 2001, when Yo-Yo Ma was performing the Academy Award-winning score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on the Oscar telecast, and met Morricone, who was also in attendance for his... |