More By Artist: Monaco
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MASCAGNI / TOSTI / EDUARDO DI CAPUA
Italian Popular Songs, Vol. 2 Beniamino Gigli / Stefano di Giuseppe / Tito Schipa / Mario del Monaco [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 15/Aug/2006 ] Italian popular songs from 1926 - 1953 |
BELLINI / BIZET / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI / VERDI
Pearlfishers' Duet: World-Famous Operatic Duets Ettore Bastianini / Carlo Bergonzi / Mario del Monaco / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Jose Carreras [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] There is always a special pleasure in the blending of two fine voices, and composers have usually been happy to provide it during the course of their operas. Characters may join their voices in a unity of feeling, or in extreme disagreement, or in... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Il Trittico (Suor Angelica, Il Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi) Fernando Corena, Robert Merrill, Mario del Monaco & Giulietta Simionato / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lamberto Gardelli [ Alto Legendary Recordings / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] "Renata Tebaldi brings off a tour de force in her assumption of all three soprano roles..In Gianni Schicchi small parts are again first rate" (Gramophone) |
PUCCINI / VERDI / DELIBES / OFFENBACH / BERLIOZ / BELLINI / DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Operatic Duets Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Mario del Monaco, Mirella Freni. Christa Ludwig, April Cantelo, Hugette Tourangeau, Jane Berbié [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 5/Apr/1994 ] Decca's recorded legacy is dominated by the huge number of complete opera recordings and vocal recitals. These extracts are taken from complete recordings. |
VERDI / PUCCINI / GIORDANO / HALEVY / BELLINI / WAGNER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mario Del Monaco Mario Del Monaco (tenor) [ Decca The Singers / CD - released 25/Feb/2001 ] Legendary Italian tenor Mario del Monaco was born in Florence on 27 July 1915 and died near Venice on 16 October 1982. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Forza del Destino (highlights recorded in 1955) Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini / Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli [ Decca / CD - released 1/Oct/1997 ] 'Tebaldi, as always, makes some lovely sounds, and the mezza voce in the soaring theme (first heard in the overture) in 'madre, madre, pietosa Vergine' is exquisite...the brilliance and atmosphere of the recording add much to the listener's pleasure" |
ROSSINI / GLUCK / GOUNOD / SAINT-SAENS / MEYERBEER / BRAHMS
Varduhi Abrahamyan - Rhapsody Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano) / Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco Gianluca Capuano, with Araik Bartikian (duduk) & Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] Varduhi is a Franco-Armenian mezzo-soprano. She appeared with Cecilia Bartoli in Alcina. Her upcoming house debut at the Met Opera as the title role in Carmen. The album features a duet with Cecilia Bartoli. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (Complete Opera recorded live Mexico, 1951) Maria Callas, Mario del Del Monaco, Oralia Dominguez / Fabritiis [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Aida held an important place in the earlier years of Callas's career, and in 1950 it brought her debut at La Scala, Milan, the theatre where she soon became reigning diva. That same year, she sang the role of the Ethiopian princess in Mexico City,... |
GIORDANO / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI / VERDI / GLUCK
Maria Callas - Live & Alive (Remastered Recordings) Maria Callas, with Mario del Monaco, Rolando Panerai / various conductors [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2018 ] The passion and charisma of Maria Callas, performing live on the stages of the world's greatest opera houses and concert halls, can now be experienced as never before - thanks to new audio remastering from the best available sources. These are... |
AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
Ponchielli: la Gioconda (complete opera recorded in 1958) Anita Cerquetti, Franca Sacchi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Giulietta Simionata / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Gavazzeni [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2019 ] 'To compare Anita Cerquetti's Gioconda with Callas's is a revelation. Cerquetti brings to the role intelligence, musicianship, and an appealing voice' High Fidelity |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Singers of the Century: 35 Supreme Voices Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Fritz Wunderlich, Richard Lewis, Leontyne Price, Mario Del Monaco, etc [ ALTO / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Thirty five magnificent voices in arias from operas we all know and love. |
ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Stradella: Amare e fingere Ensemble Mare Nostrum; Andrea De Carlo; José Maria Lo Monaco; Paola Valentina Molinari; Silvia Frigato; Mauro Borgioni; Luca Cervoni; Chiara Brunello [ Arcana / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] The discovery of the inventory of an extraordinary collection of music from the late seventeenth century has made it possible to track down a previously unknown work by Stradella: Amare e fingere (Loving and feigning), composed in Rome, but performed... |
STRAUSS / VERDI / ADAM / TCHAIKOVSKY / MOZART / etc
Herbert von Karajan - Complete Decca Recordings Herbert von Karajan with Vienna Philharmonic, with Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Hilde Güden, Leontyne Price, etc [ Decca / 33 CD Box Set - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Presented with original sleeves and spined wallets, this 33CD set of Herbert von Karajan's complete Decca recordings includes a new essay by Karajan biographer, Richard Osborne. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Turandot (highlights from the complete opera) Inge Borkh, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Fernando Corena / Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Alberto Erede [ Decca Belart / CD - released 1/Apr/1996 ] "The recording has a glitter and brilliance to match even the fabulous court of the emperor of China" (Penguin Guide) |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded in 1968) Elena Souliotis, Fiorenza Cossotto, Mario Del Monaco, Carlo Cava / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Silvio Varviso [ SBS Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] "Elena Souliotis has the power, ferocity, energy for the role...Mario del Monaco's "Ferisci, ma non interrogarmi" is a splendid moment [...] Cosotto's tone is always full and beautiful...Silvio Varviso's direction is pleasantly spirited" Gramophone |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea Emanuela Galli, Roberta Mameli, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Xenia Meijer, Ian Honeyman / La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) [ Glossa / 3 CD - released 29/Mar/2010 ] "Galli's sensuous Poppea and Roberta Mameli's psychotic Nero climax in an almost bluesily languid duet. Not everyone will like it, but for the dramatic verve of Cavina's direction and the vividness of the text this Nerone/Poppea has to be heard." |
VERDI / PUCCINI / MOZART / DONIZETTI / LEONCAVALLO / DVORAK
Opera Gold: 50 Greatest Tracks Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Kiri te Kanawa, Mario del Monaco, Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Renee Fleming, Jonas Kaufmann [ Decca Music Group / 3 CD Box Set - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Decca, the opera company, presents a premium collection of the most beautiful opera tracks on 3 CDs. Classic arias and preludes performed by the greatest opera stars of all time. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Bruno de Simone, Francesca Longari, Anna Maria Chiuri, Dave Monaco / Valerio Galli (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Aug/2021 ] "Bruno de Simone is an amiable, bespectacled Schicchi who could win anyone around with his mellow voice and floral shirt. He sparks off nicely against Anna Maria Chiuri, an unusually young 'vecchia' Zita, who brings a welcome vocal freshness" BBC Mus |
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Mantovani & Del Monaco
A Song For You [ Vocalion / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] |
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Mario Del Monaco
Mario Del Monaco:arias [ Testament / CD ] |
