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Famous Soprano Arias From Italian Operas Giuseppe Verdi was a dominant figure in Italian opera from his first great success in 1842 with Nabucco until his...

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Famous Soprano Arias From Italian Operas

Giuseppe Verdi was a dominant figure in Italian opera from his first great success in 1842 with Nabucco until his final opera Falstaff in 1893. At the height of his career he was closely associated with Italian nationalism, with even his name serving as a popular acronym for Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, under whom national unity was secured.

Verdi's opera Don Carlos, written originally to a French text, derived from Schiller, was composed for Paris, where it was first staged in 1867. The abridged Italian version was first mounted at La Scala, Milan, in 1884, although subsequent productions have often attempted a compromise between the two versions. The drama concerns the love of the heir to the Spanish throne, Don Carlos, and the French princess Elisabeth de Valois, destined, for political reasons, to marry his father, King Philip II. Don Carlos intervenes with his father in defence of the cause of Flemish freedom, threatening violence, and is imprisoned, to be saved finally from death by the intervention of the old Emperor Charles V emerging from his monastic tomb, or a monk taking his place. In the fifth act Elisabeth, in the monastic cloister of San Yuste, prepares, in her aria Tu che la vanità (You who know the hearts and weaknesses of mortals) to renounce her young lover Don Carlos, recalling their earlier love, now ready to part from him for ever.

Verdi turned to Shakespeare in old age for his final opera, Falstaff, based on The Merry Wives of Windsor. Earlier Shakespearian subjects included Macbeth and, in 1887, Othello, with a text adapted by Arrigo Boito. Jealous of his young Venetian wife Desdemona, through the machinations of the wicked lago, the Moor Othello, principal general in the service of Venice, finally kills Desdemona. In the final act she prepares for bed, recalling the gentle Willow Song of her childhood and offering a prayer to the Blessed Virgin, as her death draws near.

La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) based by the librettist Cesare Piave on a Spanish original, was first staged in St. Petersburg in 1862. Don Alvaro has prepared to elope with his beloved Leonora, but is discovered by her father, whom he accidentally kills, leading her brother, Don Carlo, to seek revenge. Alvaro and Carlo later meet, without recognising each other, but when he realises Alvaro's identity, Carlo challenges him, but a duel is prevented. Alvaro later takes refuge in a monastery, but is subsequently provoked into killing his enemy, an event that brings about a final meeting with Leonora, who has lived as an hermit in a nearby cave. In her aria Pace, pace, mio Dio (Peace, grant me peace, O God) Leonora, before the final catastrophe, prays outside her cell for a peace that she has never known, complaining that the bread left for her, out of charity, only prolongs her misery.

The most popular opera of Alfredo Catalani is La Wally, a work that persuaded the great conductor Toscanini to choose the name Wally for his daughter. The opera was first mounted at La Scala, Milan, in 1892. The heroine, Wally, loves Hagenbach but is ordered by her father to marry Gellner, on whose account she leaves home. The opera culminates in the death of Hagenbach and Wally in an avalanche, their love for each other finally revealed, alter a series of misunderstandings. Wally's aria Ebben, ne andrà lontana, occurs in the first act, when she refuses Gellner and resolves to leave home rather than marry him, as her father wishes.

Giacomo Puccini, born in Lucca in 1858, won his first considerable success in 1893 with his opera Manon Lescaut, based on the novel by the Abbé Prévost and first staged in Turin in that year. The Chevalier des Grieux falls in love with Manon, destined by her brother for a convent, to complete her education, but subject of a plotted abduction by the old Geronte, with the connivance of the girl's brother. Des Grieux and Manon elope, but by the second act love and poverty have proved less attractive, and Manon is found living comfortably with Geronte. Lescaut now brings des Grieux, who has won money at the gaming-table, to his sister, but Geronte surprises the couple and Manon is prosecuted and sentenced to transportation. Her lover follows her into exile and the American wilderness, where she dies. Manon's second act aria In quelle tri ne morbide (In these silken curtains) tells Lescaut of her present dissatisfaction at life with Geronte and her regret for the relative poverty in which she had earlier lived with des Grieux. Her final aria in Act IV, Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Alone, ruined, deserted) expresses her despair, as she lies dying, alone, lost and deserted, while des Grieux has gone in a vain search for help.

Tosca, staged first in Rome in 1900, is based on a French original by Sardou. The singer Tosca becomes involved, with her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, in the escape from prison of the political dissident Angelotti. Cavaradossi is imprisoned and sentenced to death through the machinations of the chief of police Baron Scarpia, who cynically and falsely offers to spare him, if Tosca will be his. Tosca murders Scarpia, and still believes his promise to spare her lover. When Cavaradossi is shot, she kills herself by leaping from the prison battlements. Tosca's aria Vissi d'arte, Vissi d'amore, non feci mai male ad anima viva (I have lived for art, I have lived for love, and have never done harm to any living thing) expresses her passionate grief at the dilemma with which Scarpia has seemingly presented her in order to save the life of her lover.

The three operas that form Il trittico, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, were first staged at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 1918. In the best known aria of the second of these, Senza Mamma, from Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica), the heroine, in a convent to expiate her sin as an unmarried mother, laments the reported death of her child, of whom she has sought news from her hard-hearted aunt. By way of contrast Gianni Schicchi deals with intrigue over the will of a man who has cut off his greedy relations in favour of a monastery. Gianni Schicchi is enrolled to impersonate the dead man and to make a new will, in which he leaves everything to himself. In O mio babbino caro (O my dear daddy), Lauretta, Schicchi's daughter, begs him to help her and her lover Rinuccio, a nephew of Zita, cousin of the dead man.

Puccini's last opera Turandot is set in China, based on a play by the eighteenth century Venetian writer Gozzi. The icy-hearted Princess Turandot poses unanswerable riddles to her suitors and when they fail to find a solution they are put to death. It is left to Calaf, son of the exiled King of Tartary, to find an answer and, in the end, alter considerable suspense, to find love with Turandot, although his loyal slave girl Liù dies to help him. In Tu che di gel sei cinta (You who are girdled with ice) Liù addresses the Princess, who vainly seeks to learn the name of Calaf, who has solved her riddles but posed her the riddle of his name. Rather than reveal this to Turandot even under torture, Liù kills herself. In her first act aria, Signore, ascolta (Sir, listen) Liù begs Calaf not to risk his life by attempting to become a suitor of Turandot.

The opera Le Villi, first staged in Milan in 1884, deals with a story familiar from Adam's ballet Giselle. A faithless lover, Roberto, deserts Anna, whose ghost, with those of other girls that have suffered a similar fate, returns to haunt him and bring about his death. Anna's aria Se corne voi piccina io fossli (If I were as small as you, sweet flowers) expresses her sadness at her fate.

La Bohème is possibly the best known of all Puccini's operas, and Mimi's aria Si, mi chiamano Mimi (Yes, they call me Mimi, but my real name is Lucia) comes at a moment of poignancy, when the young heroine meets for the first lime the man who will become her lover, the penniless poet Rodolfo, her neighbour. Love ends in tragedy, when Mimi, estranged from Rodolfo, finally dies of consumption, in the presence of her old lover and his artist friends, recalling, as she dies, their first happiness.

Miriam Gauci

The soprano Miriam Gauci has emerged as one of the most exciting new voices on the international opera scene. Born in Malta, she studied in Milan and made her début at La Scala in 1985 as Prosperina in the first modern revival of Rossi's Orfeo, returning the following season in Die Frau oh ne Schatten and La Sonnambula. She made her American début in Santa Fe in 1987, when she sang the rôle of Madama Butterfly, a role she later recorded on the Naxos label followed by Mimi in La Bohème in Los Angeles, Liù in Turandot in Hamburg and Ginevra in Giordano's La Cena delle Belle at the Wexford Festival. Miriam Gauci has appeared in major opera-houses throughout Europe with a wide repertoire, ranging from Donna Elvira to Anna Bolena and Luisa Miller.

Alexander Rahbari

Alexander Rahbari was born in Iran in 1948 and was trained as a conductor at the Vienna Music Academy as a pupil of von Einem, Swarowsky and Osterreicher. On his return to Iran he was appointed director of the Teheran Conservatory of Music and took a leading position in the cultural development of his country. In 1977 he moved to Europe, winning first prize in the Besançon International Conductors' Competition and the Geneva silver medal. In 1979 he was invited by Herbert von Karajan to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and served as von Karajan's assistant in Salzburg. Rahbari's subsequent career has been highly successful, with concerts throughout the world and engagements in leading opera-houses. In the 1986-87 season he appeared for the first time with the BRT Philharmonic and in September 1988, accepted appointment as principal conductor. Rahbari is Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and has conducted major orchestras throughout Europe, in Japan and in Canada. Alexander Rahbari is now a citizen of Austria. For Naxos, he has recorded symphonies by Brahms and Shostakovich, works by Stravinsky, Bartók and Debussy as well as a number of complete operas (Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Carmen, Aigoletto and La Traviata).

Disc 1

Don Carlo

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Gabriele Santini Eri Klas Lawrance Collingwood Gilles Bellemare Carlo Sabajno Lorenzo Molajoli Renato Cellini Nicolas Braithwaite Frieder Weissmann Fausto Cleva Oliver Dohnanyi Michael Halasz Pier Giorgio Morandi Alexander Rahbari Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Alberto Hold-Garrido David Parry Ivan Anguelov
Antonio Scotti, baritone
Plinio Clabassi, bass
Mattia Battistini, tenor
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Frida Leider, soprano
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Marian Anderson, contralto
Thomas Allen, baritone
Nazzareno de Angelis, bass
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Jaakko Ryhanen, bass
Ingrid Tobiasson, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Antonietta Stella,
Philip Tebb, bass
Orietta Moscucci,
Elena Nicolai,
Loretta Di Lelio,
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Lars Cleveman, tenor
Peter Mattei, baritone
Bengt Rundgren, bass
Hillevi Martinpelto, soprano
Iwa Sorenson, soprano
Klas Hedlund, tenor
Martti Wallen, bass
Hilde Leidland, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Giulio Neri, bass
Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano
Boris Christoff, bass
Emil Markow, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Gwyn Hughes Jones, tenor
Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Mario Filippeschi, tenor
Paolo Caroli, tenor
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
James Westman, baritone
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Recording date: April 1925

Tu che la vanita - 11:47

Otello

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Performed by: Polish National Opera Orchestra Grosses Rundfunkorchester Dresden Victor Orchestra Milan Symphony Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra English National Opera Orchestra Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Russian Philharmonia
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi Arturo Toscanini Arrigo Boito James Robertson Hans-Hendrik Wehding
Conducted by: Edward Gardner Jacek Kaspszyk Argeo Quadri Mark Elder Alberto Erede Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Mario Bernardi Frieder Weissmann Oliver Dohnanyi Ettore Panizza Alexander Rahbari Johannes Wildner Uri Mayer Vincenzo Bellezza Constantine Orbelian Ivan Anguelov Mikko Franck
Rina Gigli, soprano
Nellie Melba, soprano
Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone
Beata Ulas, soprano
Agnieszka Wolna, alto
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Tino Pattiera, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
Leonard Warren, baritone
Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano
Nathaniel Sprinzena, tenor
Thomas Motto, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Nicola Moscona, bass
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Rosalind Plowright, mezzo-soprano
Charles Craig, tenor
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Janez Lotric, tenor
Thelma Votipka, mezzo-soprano
Leslie Chabay, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Ramon Vinay,
Herva Nelli,
Virginio Assandri,
Arthur Newman,
Ben Grauer,
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Gerald Finley, baritone
Bernd Aldenhoff, tenor
Antonio Tonini,
Louis Quilico, baritone
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Rosanna Carteri, soprano
Leo Slezak, tenor
Nicholas Massue, tenor
Giovanni Paltrinieri, tenor
Recording date: 23 January 1924

Canzone del salce - Ave Maria - 14:23

La forza del destino

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Vienna State Opera Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Europa Symphony Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi James Robertson Gino Marinuzzi
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Eri Klas Gaetano Merola Rudolf Kempe Giulio Setti Rosario Bourdon Umberto Berrettoni Renato Cellini Constantine Callinicos Frieder Weissmann Oliver Dohnanyi Ondrej Lenard Pier Giorgio Morandi Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Bruno Walter Johannes Wildner Uri Mayer Karl Alwin Jukka-Pekka Saraste Richard Bradshaw Jonel Perlea Constantine Orbelian David Parry Ivan Anguelov Wolfgang Grohs
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Maria Nemeth, soprano
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Plinio Clabassi, bass
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Richard Tauber, tenor
Leonard Warren, baritone
Jan Peerce, tenor
Frederic Jagel, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Mario Lanza, tenor
Ivar Andresen, bass
Pasquale Amato, baritone
Karita Mattila, soprano
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
Carlo Tagliabue, baritone
Benno Ziegler, baritone
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Irra Petina, mezzo-soprano
Zinka Milanov, soprano
Nicola Moscona, bass
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Galina Gorchakova,
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Elena Nicolai,
Richard Tucker, tenor
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Janez Lotric, tenor
Dario Caselli, bass
Renato Capecchi,
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Maria Callas, soprano
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Hui He, soprano
Gino del Signore, tenor
Giulio Scarinci, tenor
Ottorino Bagalli, tenor
Raymond Keast, baritone
Tancredi Pasero, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Stella Roman, soprano
Louis Quilico, baritone
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Rina Cavallari, soprano
Christel Goltz, soprano
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Dmitry Kuznetsov, baritone
Anthony Michaels-Moore, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Stanley McCartney, clarinet

Pace, pace - 5:32

La Wally

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Performed by: Laval Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Russian Philharmonia
Composed by: Alfredo Catalani
Conducted by: Victor Trucco Mario Bernardi Jacques Lacombe Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Constantine Orbelian David Parry Heinz Wallberg
Manon Feubel, soprano
Measha Bruggergosman, soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Cheryl Barker, soprano
Galina Gorchakova,
Maria Callas, soprano
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Recording date: 20 September 1954

Ebben? N'andro lontana - 3:33

Manon Lescaut

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Josef Pasternack Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Lorenzo Molajoli Giuseppe Antonicelli Umberto Berrettoni Dino Olivieri Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Richard Bradshaw Jonel Perlea Constantine Orbelian David Parry Ivan Anguelov
Giulio Fioravanti, baritone
Dino Formichini, tenor
Vito Tattone, tenor
Dorothy Kirsten, soprano
Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
Mario Carlin, tenor
Enrico Campi, bass
Anna Maria Rota, mezzo-soprano
Giuseppe Conca, choirmaster
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Susan Patterson, soprano
Fiorenza Cossotto, mezzo-soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
A. Regis Rossini, harp
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Carlo Forti, bass
Vincente Sardinero, baritone
Marcel Rosca, bass
Donald George, tenor
Thomas Harper, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Kaludi Kaludov, tenor
Franco Ricciardi,
Lucienne van Deyck, mezzo-soprano
Robert Merrill, baritone
Henk Lauwers, bass
Ludwig van Gijzegem, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Franco Calabrese, bass
Hui He, soprano
Diana Soviero, soprano
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Giuseppe Morresi, bass
Richard Margison, tenor
Giuseppe Noto, baritone
Franco Ventriglia, bass
Recording date: 26 Feb 1951

In quelle trine morbide - 2:41
Sola, perduta, abbandonata - 4:53

Tosca

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra MGM Studio Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Rome Teatro Reale Opera Orchestra Josef Pasternack Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Victor De Sabata Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Gerhard Lenssen Josef A. Pasternack Oliviero De Fabritiis Gaetano Merola Markus Lehtinen Gerhard Steeger Alberto Erede Lorenzo Molajoli Walter B. Rogers Franco Ghione Frieder Weissmann Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Charles Gerhardt Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Jukka-Pekka Saraste Richard Bradshaw Constantine Orbelian Giacomo Spadoni David Parry Andrew Litton Kurt Striegler Ivan Anguelov Max Rudolf
Ian Caddy, baritone
Nellie Melba, soprano
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
David Sellers, boy soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Dora Zschille, soprano
Gregory Yurisich, baritone
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Richard Tauber, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano
Miroslav Dvorsky, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Karita Mattila, soprano
Armando Borgioli, baritone
Ernesto Dominici, bass-baritone
Silvano Carroli, baritone
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Hans Hopf, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Studio pianist, piano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Jan Durco, baritone
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Dino Fedri,
Andrew Shore, bass
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Giorgio Lamberti, tenor
Andrea Piccinni, bass
Jozef Spacek, baritone
Dario Caselli, bass
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass
Angelo Mercuriali, tenor
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Franco Calabrese, bass
Alvaro Cordova, tenor
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Nelly Miricioiu, soprano
Jane Eaglen, soprano
Hui He, soprano
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Ljuba Welitsch, soprano
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Raimo Sirkia, tenor
Recording date: 31 January 1921

Vissi d'arte - 3:20

Suor Angelica

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Performed by: Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Opera North Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno David Parry
Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Mary Plazas, soprano
Maria Huder,
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Maria Callas, soprano
Santa Chissari,
Diana Soviero, soprano
Sylvia Bertona, soprano
Mina Doro, mezzo-soprano
Corinna Vozza, mezzo-soprano
Lidia Marimpietri, soprano
Anna Marcangeli, soprano
Teresa Cantarini, soprano
Recording date: 16, 20 September 1954

Senza Mamma - 4:52

Gianni Schicchi

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Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra Opera North Orchestra Prague Philharmonia Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Herbert von Karajan Arthur Fiedler Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Steven Mercurio Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Gareth Hancock
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Felipe Bou, bass
Jose Garcia-Quijada, baritone
Galina Gorchakova,
Mary Plazas, soprano
Ana Maria Martinez, soprano
Colin Lee, tenor
Janez Lotric, tenor
Alberto Rinaldi, baritone
Tatiana Lisnic, soprano
Mabel Perelstein, contralto
Stefano Secco, tenor
Gerardo Lopez Gamez, tenor
Sara Galli, soprano
Celestino Varela, baritone
Carlos Ruiz, bass
Claudia Marchi, mezzo-soprano
Javier Zorilla, baritone
Antonio Torres Merino, bass
Maria Callas, soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Dennis Helmrich, piano
Eugenia Zukerman, flute
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Elisabeth Schwarkopf, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Joan Hammond, soprano

O, mio babbino caro - 2:30

Turandot

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Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra Czech Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Will Humburg Stanford Robinson Karl Bohm Walter Goehr Fritz Busch Dino Olivieri Mario Bernardi Franco Ghione Jacques Lacombe Fausto Cleva Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Richard Bradshaw Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Andrew Litton Ivan Anguelov Mikko Franck Frederic Chaslin Julian Bigg
Manon Feubel, soprano
Frances Ginzer, soprano
Mario Borriello, baritone
Renato Ercolani, tenor
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Giuseppe Nessi, tenor
Francesco Merli, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Magda Olivero, soprano
Gina Cigna, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Giovanna Casolla, soprano
Lando Bartolini, tenor
Masako Deguci, soprano
Francisco Heredia, tenor
Felipe Bou, bass
Armando Ariostini, baritone
Javier Mas, tenor
Jose Garcia-Quijada, baritone
Gorka Gerrikabeitia, tenor
Piero De Palma, tenor
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Mary Plazas, soprano
Peter Sidhom, baritone
Mark Le Brocq, tenor
Peter Wedd, tenor
Janez Lotric, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Giulio Mauri,
Jane Eaglen, soprano
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Heinrich Tessmer, tenor
Hui He, soprano
Vicenc Esteve, tenor
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Eugenio Fernandi, tenor
Elisabetta Fusco, soprano
Pinuccia Perotti, soprano
Cornelia Ptassek, soprano
Paul Schoffler, baritone
Otto Sigmund, tenor
Anne Roselle, soprano
Simon Bailey, bass
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
John Oakman, tenor
Recording date: 14-15 September, 1938

Tu, che di gel sei cinta - 2:49
Signor, ascolta - 2:55

Le Villi

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Performed by: Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Bruno Aprea
Massimo Foschi, narrator
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Jose Cura, tenor
Stefano Antonucci, baritone
Nana Gordaze, soprano

Se come voi piccina io fossi - 5:37

La boheme

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Eugene Goossens Orchestra Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Cesare Sodero Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Gerhard Steeger Rudolf Kempe Alberto Erede Victor Trucco Izler Solomon Giuseppe Antonicelli Walter Goehr Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Umberto Berrettoni Renato Cellini Fritz Zweig Frieder Weissmann Jacques Lacombe Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari Robert Heger Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Thomas Beecham Heribert Beissel Vincenzo Bellezza Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Gerhard Wiesenhutter Eugene Szenkar
Manon Feubel, soprano
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Antoine Belanger, tenor
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Gianna Corbisiero, soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Lisa Otto, soprano
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Tatiana Menotti, mezzo-soprano
Afro Poli, baritone
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Leonard Warren, baritone
Erna Berger, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Lucrezia Bori, soprano
Aurora Rettore, soprano
Robert Easton, bass
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Hilde Gueden, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Hjordis Schymberg, soprano
Carlo Forti, bass
Fabio Previati, baritone
Carmen Gonzales, soprano
Ivan Urbas, bass
Boaz Senator, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Nicola Moscona, bass
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Giacinto Prandelli, tenor
Giovanni Inghilleri, baritone
Fernando Corena, baritone
Piero De Palma, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Ildebrando Santafe, bass
Patrice Munsel, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Franco Ricciardi,
William Dazeley, baritone
Andrew Shore, bass
Robert Merrill, baritone
Dora Labbette,
Stella Andreva,
Robert Alva,
John Reardon, baritone
Giorgio Tozzi,
Lucine Amara,
William Nahr,
Thomas Powell,
George del Monte,
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Jiri Sulzenko, bass
Richard Novak, bass
Ladislav Hallon, tenor
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Marie McLaughlin, soprano
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Heddle Nash, tenor
Browning Mummery, tenor
Frederic Collier, bass
Edouard Cotreuil, bass
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Diana Soviero, soprano
Edward Johnson, tenor
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Carmen Dragon,
Raffaele Arie, bass
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Cynthia Haymon, soprano
Alastair Miles, bass
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Manuel Spatafora, baritone
Carlo Badioli, bass
Anna Moffo, soprano
Eraldo Coda, bass
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Jonathon Welch, tenor
Agnieszka Piass, soprano
John Brownlee, baritone
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Recording date: 12 December 1942

Si, mi chiamano Mimi - 5:23

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Composer(s):
Boito, Arrigo; Catalani, Alfredo; Puccini, Giacomo; Verdi, Giuseppe

Conductor(s):
Rahbari, Alexander

Orchestra(s):
Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra

Artist(s):
Gauci, Miriam

Label: Naxos Classics
UPC: 730099560627
Item Number: 8550606
Release Date: Jun 17, 1992