Puccini - Great Opera Collection | Decca 4759385

Puccini - Great Opera Collection

Label: Decca

Cat No: 4759385

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 15

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 28th January 2008

Contents

Works

Puccini
Manon Lescaut

Puccini
La Boheme

Puccini
Tosca

Puccini
Madama Butterfly

Puccini
La Fanciulla del West

Puccini
Turandot

Puccini
Il Trittico

Artists

Renata Tebaldi
Carlo Bergonzi
Mario del Monaco
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductors

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Tullio Serafin
Franco Capuana
Alberto Erede
Lamberto Gardelli

Works

Puccini
Manon Lescaut

Puccini
La Boheme

Puccini
Tosca

Puccini
Madama Butterfly

Puccini
La Fanciulla del West

Puccini
Turandot

Puccini
Il Trittico

Artists

Renata Tebaldi
Carlo Bergonzi
Mario del Monaco
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductors

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Tullio Serafin
Franco Capuana
Alberto Erede
Lamberto Gardelli

About

Classic performances of Puccini's most popular operas at a bargain price!

PLEASE NOTE THAT LIBRETTI ARE NOT INCLUDED WITH THIS SET.

Decca’s recordings of Puccini’s operas rank among the very finest ever committed to disc. This legacy was started in 1951 when Renata Tebaldi made her first recording of Madama Butterfly and throughout the rest of the 1950s Tebaldi recorded Puccini’s other major operas. At the end of the 1950s, new stereo versions were made of Madama Butterfly and La Bohème. Tebaldi was cast alongside such distinguished colleagues as Carlo Bergonzi and Mario del Monaco and acclaimed opera maestri at the helm of these recordings include Francesco Molinari–Pradelli and Tullio Serafin.

This collection of the great Puccini operas includes the stereo versions of Butterfly and Bohème and is the ideal collection of some of the world’s most popular and enduring operas in acclaimed recordings that have been an integral part of Decca’s legendary opera catalogue for the past fifty years.

Contents:

CD 1 & 2 Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut - Renata Tebaldi
Il cavaliere Renato des Grieux - Mario Del Monaco
Lescaut - Mario Boriello
Geronte di Ravoir - Fernando Corena
Edmondo - Piero de Palma

CD 3 & 4 La Bohème
Mimì - Renata Tebaldi
Rodolfo - Carlo Bergonzi
Musetta - Gianna d'Angelo
Marcello - Ettore Bastianini
Schaunard - Renato Cesari
Colline - Cesare Siepi
Benoit - Fernando Corena
Alcindoro - Fernando Corena
Parpignol - Piero de Palma

CD 5 & 6 Tosca
Floria Tosca - Renata Tebaldi
Mario Cavaradossi - Mario del Monaco
Il barone Scarpia - George London
Cesare Angelotti - Silvio Maionica
Il sagrestano - Fernando Corena

CD 7 & 8 Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San) - Renata Tebaldi
B.F. Pinkerton - Carlo Bergonzi
Goro Angelo Mercuriali
Suzuki - Fiorenza Cossotto
Sharpless - Enzo Sordello

CD 9 & 10 La Fanciulla del West
Minnie - Renata Tebaldi
Dick Johnson - Mario del Monaco
Jack Rance - Cornell Macneil
Nick - Piero di Palma
Ashby - Silvio Maionica

CD 11 & 12 Turandot
Turandot - Inge Borkh
Liù - Renata Tebaldi
Calaf - Mario del Monaco
Timur - Bicola Zaccaria
Ping - Fernando Corena
Pang - Mario Carlin
Pong - Renato Ercolani
Altoum - Gaetano Fanelli
Un mandarino - Ezio Giordano

CD 13, 14 & 15 Il Trittico
Il tabarro
Michele - Robert Merrill
Giorgetta - Renata Tebaldi
Luigi - Mario del Monaco

Suor Angelica
Suor Angelica - Renata Tebaldi
La zia Principessa - Giulietta Simionato

Gianni Schicchi
Gianni Schicchi - Fernando Corena
Lauretta - Renata Tebaldi


Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma
Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Il Trittico)

Conductors:
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Manon Lescaut, Tosca)
Tullio Serafin (La Bohème, Madama Butterfly)
Franco Capuana (La fanciulla del West)
Alberto Erede (Turandot)
Lamberto Gardelli (Il Trittico)

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