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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (Complete opera) (Recorded August 1953) Franco Calabrese (bass) Maria Callas (soprano) Dario Caselli (bass) Alvaro Cordova (tenor) Tito Gobbi (baritone) /Milan La Scala / Victor De Sabata [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] "This new remastering is streets ahead of the others; it irons out the sourness and surface noise of the original, without adding the implausible sheen and reverberance of previous transfers" - The Times (London) |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (highlights from the complete opera) Franco Corelli, Nicolai Ghiraurov, Joan Sutherland / Ambrosian Opera Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] Recorded in 1966 in superb 'Decca Sound', these highlights from Gounod's most widely-performed opera extracts music from the second act onwards. The Soldier's Chorus has rarely been done with such swagger, Ghiaurov is a terrifying Mephistopheles and... |
FRANCO CORELLI
Icon: Franco Corelli (excerpts from I Puritani, Norma, Turandot, Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, etc) Franco Corelli (tenor) with various orchstras & conductors [ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2009 ] Franco Corelli began his stage career in Italy in 1951. With his powerful voice, charismatic stage presence and film-star good looks he soon became one of the 20th century's outstanding operatic superstars. |
NICOLA ANTONIO ZINGARELLI
Zingarelli: Giulietta e Romeo (complete opera) Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano) / Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Stefan Plewniak [ Château de Versailles Spectacles - L'opéra de Napoléon CD + DVD / CD/DVD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Napoleon's fervor for opera was extreme. This music-loving conqueror brought to him a young Italian star, the contralto Giuseppina Grassini, and the most dazzling castrato: Girolamo Crescentini, the only singer to move the Emperor to tears. Invited... |
LEONARDO VINCI
Vinci: Veni, Vidi, Vinci Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Il Pomo d'Oro, Zefira Valova [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/May/2020 ] Following up his 'fantastic' (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Handel recital, Franco Fagioli lavishes his 'extraordinary agility and richly upholstered voice' (Gramophone) on Leonardo Vinci, the Neapolitan composer who influenced Handel and many later masters. |
GLUCK
Orfeo ed Euridice (complete opera in Italian) Franco Fagioli, Malin Hartelius, Emmanuelle de Negri / Accentus, Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey [ Archiv / Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Nov/2015 ] "This is a big spotlight for the relatively little-known Insula Orchestra and Accentus choir, who are led by Equilbey with verve and delicacy." (The Times) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Serse (complete opera recorded in 2018) Franco Fagioli (Serse), Vivica Genaux, Inga Kalna, Francesca Aspromonte / Il Pomo d ́Oro Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Dec/2018 ] "I'd guess that a voice like Franco Fagioli's…comes as close as we can get today to the mingled brilliance, suppleness and power of the great castrati in their pomp." Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2019 |
Franco & Le Tpok Jazz
Francophonic [ Sterns Music / 2 CD - released 11/Dec/2008 ] Congolese rumba, aka soukous, is some of the most infectious dance music ever created, and Franco's prolific fingers never seemed to run out of ideas. Maybe that's what happens when African rhythms head to the Caribbean and then return home. |
GEORGE ENESCU
Enescu: Rhapsodies / Suites / Cello Concertante Franco Maggio-Ormezowski (cello) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Lawrence Foster [ Warner Apex / 2 CD - released 9/Jul/2016 ] "Here are two discs packed with music fit to burst. Better still; they are offered at bargain price. Enescu poetically sustained ... well upholstered Brahmsian textures ... convincingly done - look no further." - MusicWeb June 2005 |
ALBERIC MAGNARD
Magnard: Cello Sonata Op.20 / Piano Trio Op.18 Camilla Patria (cello) Elena Ballario (piano) Franco Mezzena (violin) Sergio Patria (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Albéric Magnard, born in Paris in 1865, was a pupil of Dubois, Guiraud, Massenet and D'Indy at the Paris Conservatoire, and he frequented the circle of César Franck. In 1896 he became a teacher at Paris's Schola Cantorum. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Guitar Recital Franco Platino [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD ] |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Complete Piano Works Franco Trabucco (piano) [ Dynamic / 7 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2011 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (Highlights) Zsuzsa Csonka (sop), Maurizio Frusoni (tenor), Franco de Grandis (bass), Daniela Longhi (sop) Irina Tschistiakova (mezzo) / Budapest Festival Chorus [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2000 ] "Will Humburg leads an exciting series of globs of the opera. Unbeatable at this price." ClassicsToday |
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PUCCINI
Turandot (complete opera recorded in 1938) [plus early recordings of Turandot] Gina Cigna, Francesco Merli & Magda Olivero / RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Turin, Franco Ghione [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Turin, Franco Ghione |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a (complete opera recorded in 2016) Le Concert d'Astree / Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Sara Mingardo, Michael Spyres / Emmanuelle Haim [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 10/Jun/2017 ] Festival d'Aix-en-Provence has firmly established itself as France's preeminent summer festival and is a key fixture on the international festival calendar. |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria (complete opera) Franco Fagioli, Romina Basso, Yuriy Mynenko, Dilyara Idrisova, Juan Sancho / Capella Cracoviensis, Jan Tomasz Adamus [ Decca / 3 CD Box Set - released 24/Aug/2017 ] "Fagioli traverses two octaves of fioritura seamlessly, many times, and is well-matched by Yuriy Mynenko as a suave Adriano. Tenor Juan Sancho has juicier recitatives to work with as Osroa, King of Parthia and arsonist, and does so with swagger." BBC |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Great Verdi Voices Leontyne Price (soprano) Julia Varady (soprano) Jose Carreras (tenor) Renato Bruson (baritone) Giuseppe Taddei (baritone) Franco Bonisolli (tenor), et [ BR Klassik / CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] The radio recordings collected on this album from BR-Klassik were made between 1962 and 1984. All impressively convey the vocal presence of the renowned performing artists and are thus also of historical significance: the recordings produced by the... |
LEONARDO VINCI
Artaserse (complete opera recorded in 2012) Lorraine National Opera / Philippe Jaroussky, Franco Fagioli, Max Emanuel Cencic, Valer Barna-Sabadus / Diego Fasolis (director) [ Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/May/2014 ] "This magnificent production is a complete and blissful success. Don't miss it." Those were the words of the French website Classique News when Leonardo Vinci's rediscovered Artaserse was staged by Silviu Purcãrete at the Opéra National de Lorraine... |
