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The Last Castrato. Arias for Velluti cover
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI / FRANCESCO MORLACCHI / SAVERIO MERCADANTE / PAOLO BONFICHI / GIUSEPPE NICOLINI
The Last Castrato. Arias for Velluti
Franco Fagioli, Stefan Plewniak, Chœur & Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal
[ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - due 28/Feb/2025 ]
Giovanni Battista Velluti, born in 1780, was the last heir of the great Italian castrati. His exceptional voice, both powerful and agile, and his impressive vocal mastery opened the doors to the most prestigious opera houses in Europe.
Spontini: La Vestale (complete opera remastered recorded live 1954) cover
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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...
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2007) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2007)
Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo / Patrick Summers (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 28/Feb/2008 ]
"Netrebko has perhaps the most appealing stage presence among contemporary sopranos. She is a natural stage animal who can sing as she moves around the stage and interacts with her colleagues. Her sheer physicality on stage is awesome." (MusicWeb)
Best Of Faure cover
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sivori: The Complete Trios cover
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CAMILLO SIVORI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sivori: The Complete Trios
Bruno Pignata (violin) Riccardo Agosti (cello) Franco Giacosa (piano)
[ Dynamic / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ]
Camillo Sivori, Paganini's only pupil, can be considered not only the greatest performer of the Italian violin school after Paganini, but also one of the greatest virtuosi violinists of the nineteenth century.
Buddy De Franco And Oscar Peterson Play The George Gershwin Song Book cover
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Buddy De Franco And Oscar Peterson / Orchestra conducted by Russell Garcia
Buddy De Franco And Oscar Peterson Play The George Gershwin Song Book
[ Definitive Records / CD ]
Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin is a 1954 album by Buddy DeFranco, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio, of songs composed by George Gershwin. Billboard in 1955 wrote: "The flashy talents of clarinetist DeFranco and pianist...
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded in 1960) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded in 1960)
Maria Callas, Christa Ludwig, Franco Corelli, Nicola Zaccaria / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 3 CD - released 18/Nov/2014 ]
Callas first sang Bellini's Norma in 1948, when she was just 25. She went on to perform the role of the heroic, but vulnerable Druid priestess - the ultimate embodiment of bel canto - more frequently than any other. In this second studio recording...
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto (Complete opera recorded in 1957) cover
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Auber: Le Philtre (complete opera) cover
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DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER
Auber: Le Philtre (complete opera)
Eugenio Di Lieto, Luiza Fatyol, Emmanuel Franco, ;Adina Vilichi / Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Luciano Acocella
[ Naxos / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ]
In 1831 Auber and his long-standing librettist Eugène Scribe produced Le Philtre, which took the concept of petit opéra to the extreme, even outdoing Rossini's Le Comte Ory in depicting a rural setting.
Franco Fagioli sings Rossini cover
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Franco Fagioli sings Rossini
Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Mar/2017 ]
"Fagioli's technical skill is without doubt and he can fling off the most challenging coloratura with aplomb…challenging, slightly mad - and why not?" OperaNow
Anime Immortali | Mozart Arias cover
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Anime Immortali | Mozart Arias
Franco Fagioli (counter-tenor), Kammerorchester Basel, Daniel Bard
[ Pentatone / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ]
Countertenor Franco Fagioli makes his Pentatone debut with Anime Immortali, together with the Kammerorchester Basel, exploring the music that Mozart composed for castratos. Ranging from opera to sacred music and culminating in Exsultate, jubilate,...
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Donizetti: Pia De' Tolomei (Highlights) cover
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera with libretto recorded in 1957) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera with libretto recorded in 1957)
Giuseppe Di Stefano, Maria Callas, Franco Calabrese / La Scala Orchestra and Chorus / Tullio Serafin
[ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/1985 ]
"In general this is Callas at her most girlish: light-voiced, lyrical and with the power to make the dramatic climaxes thrilling." MusicWeb
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera) cover
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera)
Joyce DiDonato, Elsa Benoit, Biagio Pizzuti, Franco Fagioli, Andrea Mastroni, Jakub Józef OrliƄski / l Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
[ Erato Classics / 3 CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ]
"With DiDonato nonpareil in the title-role and a uniformly strong cast, this now becomes a first choice for Handel's Venetian masterpiece." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Opera
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY cover
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY
Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond)
[ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - 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.
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY
Leipzig Opera / Massimiliano Pisapia, Franco Vassallo, Chiara Taigi, Annamaria Chiuri, Eun Yee You / Riccardo Chailly
[ EuroArts / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ]
"traditional costumes and stylized sets...[Talgi] has a pure, warm soprano, finely controlled in her legato singing, and Franco Vassallo sings magnificently, making his defying aria, Eri tu, a powerful climax, helped by Riccardo Chailly's conducting"
Bellini: Norma [complete opera] (LP) cover
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VINCENCO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma [complete opera] (LP)
Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Christa Ludwig, Nicola Zaccaria
[ Warner Classics Vinyl / 4 Vinyl Box Set - released 10/Mar/2023 ]
This 1960 Norma represents Maria Callas's final complete documented version of her signature role. Seven recordings of the opera exist with Callas (1950-60), plus numerous snippets and scenes captured between 1949 and 1965. With 89 performances,...
Nicolai Ghiaurov in Boito's 'Mefistofele' / Opera Arias for bass cover
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ARRIGO BOITO
Nicolai Ghiaurov in Boito's 'Mefistofele' / Opera Arias for bass
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), with Franco Tagliavini / Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Orchestra del
[ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 17 / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ]
". . . [a] well-engineered release . . . [Franco Tagliavini's Faust here] makes an appealing, clean Italianate sound . . ." OperaNews
Artaserse (complete opera recorded in 2012) cover
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JOHANN ADOLF HASSE
Artaserse (complete opera recorded in 2012)
Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, Italy / Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Sonia Prina, Franco Fagioli / Corrado Rovaris
[ Dynamic DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Apr/2016 ]
Set: Alessandro Camera Costume Designer: Andrea Viotti Lighting Designer: Antonio Macchitella A classic work of its genre and historical period, Artaserse was premièred in Venice in 1730 by the most famous singers of the day: Farinelli in...
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Love Duets cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Love Duets
Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, Frano Corelli, Carlo Cossutta. Margaret Price
[ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 5/Apr/1988 ]
Decca's recorded legacy is dominated by the huge number of complete opera recordings and vocal recitals. These extracts are taken from complete recordings.