Puccini: Tosca (1997) more music like this

performed by Alvaro Cordova (vocals), Angelo Mercuriali (vocals), Dario Caselli (vocals), Franco Calabrese (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Melchiorre Luise (vocals), Tito Gobbi (vocals), La Scala Theater Chorus (choir, chorus), La Scala Theater Orchestra
composed by Giacomo Puccini

This is one of the most justly revered operatic recordings ever made -- a dramatic and musical gold standard for Tosca despite its advancing age and monophonic sound. It was the last major recording project for Victor de Sabata, one of opera's greatest, yet least often recorded conductors. He brought a distinctive rhythmic urgency to this ...

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Bizet: Carmen (1964) more music like this

performed by Andrea Guiot (soprano), Claude Cales (baritone), Jacques Mars (bass), Jacques Pruvost (vocals), Jane Berbié (vocals), Jean-Paul Vauquelin (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Maurice Maievski (vocals), Nadine Sautereau (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
composed by Georges Bizet

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Bellini: Norma (1989) more music like this

performed by Christa Ludwig (vocals), Edda Vincenzi (vocals), Franco Corelli (vocals), Maria Callas (vocals), Nicola Zaccaria (vocals), Piero de Palma (vocals), La Scala Theater Orchestra & Chorus (choir, chorus), La Scala Theater Orchestra & Chorus
composed by Vincenzo Bellini

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Guiseppe Verdi: Aida (1987) more music like this

performed by Franco Ricciardi (tenor), Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Jon Vickers (tenor), Leontyne Price (soprano), Plinio Clabassi (bass), Rita Gorr (mezzo-soprano), Robert Merrill (baritone), Rome Opera Theater Orchestra & Chorus, Georg Solti (conductor)
composed by Giuseppe Verdi

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Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila more music like this

performed by Anton Diakov (vocals), Ernest Blanc (vocals), Jacques Pottier (vocals), Jean-Pierre Huteau (vocals), Jon Vickers (vocals), Remy Corazza (vocals), Rita Gorr (vocals), René Duclos Choir (choir, chorus), Paris National Opera Orchestra
composed by Camille Saint-Saëns

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Bellini: I Puritani more music like this

performed by Angelo Mercuriali (vocals), Aurora Cattelani (vocals), Carlo Forti (vocals), Giuseppe di Stefano (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (vocals), Rolando Panerai (vocals), La Scala Theater Chorus (choir, chorus), La Scala Theater Orchestra
composed by Vincenzo Bellini

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly more music like this

performed by Enrico Campi (vocals), Lucia Danieli (vocals), Luisa Villa (vocals), Maria Callas (vocals), Mario Borriello (vocals), Mario Carlin (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Plinio Clabassi (vocals), Renato Ercolani (vocals)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

EMI's 1955 recording of Madama Butterfly features three of the brightest stars of the era, Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, and Herbert von Karajan. Callas hadn't yet sung Cio-Cio-San on-stage when she made this recording, but she fully inhabits the role and brings penetrating insight to it. She's completely convincing as an adolescent, a remarkable ...

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Passione (1985) more music like this

performed by Comunale di Bologna, Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Theater Orchestra
composed by Anonymous, E.A. Mario, Eduardo di Capua, Ernesto de Curtis, Evemero Nardella, Francesco Antonio Costa, Gaetano Donizetti, Gaetano Lama, Italian Traditional, Rodolfo Falvo, Salvatore Cardillo, Vincenzo Valente

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Gounod: Faust more music like this

performed by David Bell (organ), Jocelyne Taillon (mezzo-soprano), Marc Vento (baritone), Michele Command (soprano), Mirella Freni (soprano), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Thomas Allen (vocals), Paris National Opera Orchestra
composed by Charles Gounod

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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Paganini Rhapsody (2005) more music like this

performed by Lang Lang (piano), Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
composed by Sergey Rachmaninov

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Bizet: Carmen more music like this

performed by Albert Voli (vocals), Bernanrd Gontcharenko (vocals), Claude Meloni (vocals), Eliane Liblin (vocals), Grace Bumbry (vocals), Jon Vickers (vocals), Kostas Paskalis (vocals), Michel Trempont (vocals), Mirella Freni (vocals), Viorica Cortez (vocals)
composed by Georges Bizet

The days of stressing over which opera recordings to buy are over; they aren't a big invesment anymore, and in some cases they're practically giving them away. Here, EMI is offering its complete 1970 recording of Bizet's Carmen for the price of a budget single. Not bad. And since it doesn't come with a libretto, or any real documentation to speak ...

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Puccini: Turandot more music like this

performed by Angelo Mercuriali (tenor), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Bonaldo Giaiotti (bass), Franco Corelli (tenor), Franco Ricciardi (tenor), Giuseppe Morresi (vocals), Guido Mazzini (bass), Piero de Palma (tenor), Renata Scotto (soprano)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

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Russian Album (2006) more music like this

performed by Alexandr Morozov (baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitry Voropaev (tenor), Ilya Bannik (bass), Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-soprano), Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater Chorus (choir, chorus), Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
composed by Mikhail Glinka, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Rachmaninov

What makes Anna Netrebko more than just the next Russian soprano? Is it her as direct but not as quite so refined technique, her less restrained but much more effective interpretations, and her intensely expressive but always under control tone? Or is it her distinctively non-Russian vibrato -- leaner, cleaner, and with a much tighter focus but ...

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Verdi: La Traviata (1997) more music like this

performed by Antonio Zerbini (vocals), Arturo la Porta (vocals), Ettore Bastianini (vocals), Franco Ricciardi (vocals), Giuseppe di Stefano (vocals), Giuseppe Zampieri (vocals), Luisa Mandelli (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Silvana Zanolli (vocals)
composed by Giuseppe Verdi

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Puccini: Tosca (1997) more music like this

performed by Carlo Bergonzi (vocals), David Sellar (vocals), Giorgio Tadeo (vocals), Leonardo Monreale (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Renato Ercolani (vocals), Tito Gobbi (vocals), Ugo Trama (vocals), Paris National Opera Orchestra (choir, chorus)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (1993) more music like this

performed by Anna Maria Canali (vocals), Ebe Ticozzi (vocals), Giuseppe di Stefano (vocals), Maria Callas (vocals), Nicola Monti (vocals), Rolando Panerai (vocals), Tito Gobbi (vocals), La Scala Theater Chorus (choir, chorus), La Scala Theater Orchestra
composed by Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo

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Puccini: Tosca (1997) more music like this

performed by Alvaro Cordova (vocals), Angelo Mercuriali (vocals), Dario Caselli (vocals), Franco Calabrese (vocals), Giuseppe di Stefano (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Melchiorre Luise (vocals), Tito Gobbi (vocals)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

This is one of the most justly revered operatic recordings ever made -- a dramatic and musical gold standard for Tosca despite its advancing age and monophonic sound. It was the last major recording project for Victor de Sabata, one of opera's greatest, yet least often recorded conductors. He brought a distinctive rhythmic urgency to this ...

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Donizetti: Poliuto (1999) more music like this

performed by Ettore Bastianini (vocals), Franco Corelli (vocals), Giuseppe Morresi (vocals), Maria Callas (vocals), Nicola Zaccaria (vocals), Piero de Palma (vocals), Rinaldo Pelizzoni (vocals), Virgilio Carbonari (vocals), La Scala Theater Orchestra
composed by Gaetano Donizetti

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Puccini: La Bohème (1993) more music like this

performed by Anna Moffo (vocals), Carlo Badioli (vocals), Carlo Forti (bass), Eraldo Coda (vocals), Franco Ricciardi (tenor), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor), Manuel Spatafora (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Nicola Zaccaria (bass), Rolando Panerai (vocals)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

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Homage: The Age of the Diva (2006) more music like this

performed by Kirill Terentiev (violin), Renée Fleming (soprano), Yvona Skvarova (vocals), Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
composed by Bedrich Smetana, Charles Gounod, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Francesco Cilea, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Jules Massenet, Leos Janácek, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss

In light of the operatic world's eagerness to project an image of hipness and currency in the early 2000s, Renée Fleming's Homage: The Age of the Diva could seem anachronistic or reactionary in its unabashed celebration of the past, especially coming from an artist that released recordings of contemporary song cycles and vocal jazz in the ...

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Verdi: Rigoletto more music like this

performed by Alfredo Giacomotti (vocals), Carlo Bergonzi (vocals), Catarina Alda (vocals), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (vocals), Fiorenza Cossotto (vocals), Giuseppe Morresi (vocals), Ivo Vinco (vocals), Lorenzo Testi (vocals), Mirella Fiorentini (vocals)
composed by Giuseppe Verdi

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Bellini: La sonnambula (2002) more music like this

performed by Cesare Valletti (vocals), Eugenia Ratti (vocals), Gabriella Carturan (vocals), Giuseppe Modesti (vocals), Giuseppe Nessi (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Pierluigi Latinucci (vocals), La Scala Theater Chorus (choir, chorus), La Scala Theater Orchestra
composed by Vincenzo Bellini

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Donizetti: La Figlia del Reggimento (2000) more music like this

performed by Anna di Stasio (vocals), Luciano Pavarotti (vocals), Maria Grazia Allegri (vocals), Mirella Freni (vocals), Vladimiro Ganzarolli (vocals), Walter Monachesi (vocals), La Scala Theater Chorus (choir, chorus), La Scala Theater Orchestra
composed by Gaetano Donizetti

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Concert For Planet Earth (1992) more music like this

performed by Antonio Carlos Jobim (piano), Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano), Gal Costa (vocals), Herbert Harris (sax), Herbert Harris (sax), Herlin Riley (drums), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Reginald Veal (bass), Sarah Chang (violin), Stephen Scott (piano)
composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Antonio Carlos Jobim/ Luis Bontá, Ary Barroso, Camille Saint-Saëns, Carlos Gardel, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, José Serrano, Leonard Bernstein, Niccolò Paganini, Pablo Sorozabal, Wynton Marsalis

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Verdi: Rigoletto (1997) more music like this

performed by Adriana Lazzarini (vocals), Carlo Forti (vocals), Elvira Galassi (vocals), Giuse Gerbino (vocals), Giuseppe di Stefano (vocals), Luisa Mandelli (vocals), Maria Callas (vocals), Nicola Zaccaria (vocals), Plinio Clabassi (vocals), Renato Ercolani (vocals)
composed by Giuseppe Verdi

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