More By Artist: Teatro alla Scala
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca / 2 CD - released 8/Sep/2013 ] "The non-Italian soloists are in good fearless voice and aurally well integrated into this concept." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 30/Aug/2013 ] "Even without a fully Italianate instrument, Kaufmann's honeyed, warm tone makes him exceptional in Verdi." (The Telegraph) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem (recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] "It's a 'through-composed' linked-up performance, paced withy a dramatic curve that makes even the punchiest Italian-led ones..feel like number opera...The non-Italian soloists are in good fearless voice and aurally well integrated into this concept" |
CILEA / PURCELL / TCHAIKOVSKY / VERDI / PUCCINI / WAGNER
Anna Netrebko - Amata dalle tenebre Anna Netrebko (soprano) / Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly [ Deusche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "She's in her element [as Manon Lescaut], as she is with Tchaikovsky's Lisa, where the voice sounds beautiful and the emotional trajectory is wonderfully plotted and detailed." Gramophone |
LUIGI CHERUBINI
Cherubini: Medea (complete opera recorded live in 1953) Gino Penno, Maria Callas, Maria Luisa Nache, Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe Modesti, Enrico Campi / Teatro alla Scala, Leonard Bernstein [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] The character of Medea became closely associated with Maria Callas. In 1969, several years after she had left the opera stage, she even played the betrayed and finally infanticidal sorceress in a film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. |
GASPARE SPONTINI
Spontini: La Vestale (complete opera remastered recorded live 1954) Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Ebe Stignani, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] The central character in La Vestale, as in Norma, is a priestess who transgresses her holy vows for love. Spontini's nobly-conceived opera, composed for Paris in the Napoleonic era, brought Callas' first collaboration on a new production with the... |
VERDI
Rigoletto (Complete opera recorded in 1964) Carlo Bergonzi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renata Scotto, Ivo Vinco, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. Rafael Kubelik [ Deutsche Grammophon Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] 'Kubelik is a conductor in Fricsay's class as his support for Fischer-Dieskau's Rigoletto reveals. Fischer-Dieskau once more reaches to a character's soul' (Gramophone) |
RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Complete opera with libretto) Carlo Bergonzi, Joan Carlyle, Giuseppe Taddei, Ugo Benelli / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 12/Oct/2004 ] "..long-breathed, expansible tempi and the minimum of exaggeration. Karajan's choice of soloists was clearly aimed to help that...rarely if ever on record has the La Scala Orchestra played with such beautiful feeling for tone-colour." - Penguin Guide |
GOUNOD / VERDI / BIZET / MASCAGNI / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / etc.
50 Best Choruses Choeurs du Capitole de Toulouse / Chorus del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Ambrosian Opera Chorus / etc. [ Warner Classics 50 Best / 3 CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] This three-CD set contains a collection of 50 operatic choruses performed by some of the world's leading ensembles. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Opera Choruses Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Riccardo Muti, with Mirella Freni & Dolora Zajick [ Warner Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] Where Italian opera is concerned, the centre of the world is in Milan - and the famous La Scala. This is where these recordings of great opera choruses by the doyen of all Italian opera composers were made - under the baton of La Scala's star... |
MINKUS
La Bayadère (ballet recorded 2006) Corpo di Ballo and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala / Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle / David Coleman [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2011 ] In their series of classical ballet productions from La Scala Arthaus releases a DVD recording of La Bayadére in the choreography by Natalia Makarova. Her |
DOMENICO CIMAROSA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto (Complete opera recorded in 1957) Eugenia Ratti, Graziella Sciutti, Ebe Stignati, Luigi Alva, Franco Calabrese / Teatro alla Scala, Nino Sanzogno [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/1997 ] Note: This is extremely rare. American websites are asking $43US. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1992 with libretto) Tiziana Fabbricini, Paolo Conti, Roberto Alagna / Coro e orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo MutiMuti [ Sony / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1993 ] "The entire performance wins brownie points with me for being an all-Italian affair. In the theatre,I suspect, I would have been thrilled by Muti's electric, hyper-musical conducting, and by the youthful Roberto Alagna's juicy-toned, ardent Alfredo" |
MONTEVERDI
L'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Georg Nigl, Roberta Invernizzi, Sara Mingardo, Raffaella Milanesi, Furio Zanasi / Rinaldo Alessandrini (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 11/May/2011 ] "Alessandrini directs an authentically sized La Scala orchestra in playing that is at once historically informed and always alive...Georg Nigl, previously a Wozzeck at La Scala, sings with much beauty of voice." (Gramophone) |
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W. A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [Magic Flute] (Complete, recorded live in 2011) BLU-RAY La Teatro alla Scala / Günther Groissböck, Saimir Pirgu, Albina Shagimuratova, Genia Kühmeier, Ailish Tynan, Alex Esposito / Roland Böer (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "This is a wonderful performance...I was more moved and enchanted by this than by any other Magic Flute I have seen on DVD." (BBC Music DVD & Blu-ray Choice - April 2012) |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Two Classic Operas - L'incoronazione di Poppea / L'Orfeo (complete operas recorded in 2009 & 2012) BLU-RAY Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Sarah Connolly, Miah Persson, Jordi Domènech / Teatro alla Scala, Georg Nigl, Roberta Invernizzi, Sara Mingardo [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Box Set - released 29/Nov/2017 ] "this is a wonderfully satisfying performance, featuring one of the finest Orfeos on disc, and a production which suits the needs of both the large-scale theatre and the small screen equally well." (International Record Review on Orfeo) |
DONIZETTI
Le Convenienze ed Inconvenienze Teatrali (complete opera recorded in 2009) Jessica Pratt / Simon Bailey / Christian Senn / Vincenzo Taormina / Teatro alla Scala / Marco Guidarini [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 12/Dec/2010 ] The Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, a young singers project, presents an opera by Donizetti never before performed on the La Scala stage. Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Viva la mamma!) is a farce in two acts which premiered in Milan April... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: La finta giardiniera (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Krešimir Špicer, Julie Martin du Theil, Bernard Richter / Diego Fasolis (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 9/Jul/2021 ] "The whole, remarkably filmed by Daniela Vismara, is to be seen by all those who are reluctant to opera: conversion is guaranteed!" © 2021 Crescendo |
MAURICE JARRE
Notre Dame de Paris (Complete Ballet, recorded live in March 2013) La Teatro alla Scala Ballet / Natalia Osipova, Roberto Bolle, Eris Nezha, Mick Zeni / Paul Connelly (cond) [ Opus Arte La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] With Roland Petit's cool, cabaret-style choreography and chic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Notre Dame de Paris has been a modern ballet hit ever since its 1965 premiere. Petit's deft condensation of Victor Hugo's epic and tragic novel is now... |
MAURICE JARRE
Notre Dame de Paris (Complete Ballet, recorded live in March 2013) BLU-RAY La Teatro alla Scala Ballet / Natalia Osipova, Roberto Bolle, Eris Nezha, Mick Zeni / Paul Connelly (cond) [ Opus Arte La Scala Collection Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] With Roland Petit's cool, cabaret-style choreography and chic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Notre Dame de Paris has been a modern ballet hit ever since its 1965 premiere. Petit's deft condensation of Victor Hugo's epic and tragic novel is now... |
