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Verdi: | Nabucco studio recording, 1977-8 Matteo Manuguerra (Nabucco), Veriano Luchetti (Ismaele), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Zaccaria), Renata Scotto (Abigaille), Elena Obraztsova (Fenena), Robert Lloyd (Gran Sacerdote), Kenneth Collins (Abdallo), Anne Edwards (Anna) Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti Ernani live concert recording, 1982 Plácido Domingo (Ernani), Mirella Freni (Elvira), Renato Bruson (Carlo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Silva), Gianfranco Manganotti (Riccardo), Alfredo Giacomotti (Iago), Jolanda Michieli (Giovanna) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti Giovanna d'Arco studio recording, 1972 Montserrat Caballé (Giovanna), Plácido Domingo (Carlo VII), Sherrill Milnes (Giacono), Keith Erwen (Delil), Robert Lloyd (Talbot) London Symphony Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, James Levine Attila studio recording, 1989 Samuel Ramey (Attila), Giorgio Zancanaro (Ezio), Cheryl Studer (Odabella), Neil Shicoff (Foresto), Ernesto Gavazzi (Uldino), Giorgio Surjan (Leone) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti Macbeth studio recording, 1976 Sherrill Milnes (Macbeth), Fiorenza Cossotto (Lady Macbeth), Ruggero Raimondi (Banco), José Carreras (Macduff), Giuliano Bernardi (Malcolm), Maria Borgato (Dama), Carlo Del Bosco (Medico) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Riccardo Muti Rigoletto studio recording, 1955 Tito Gobbi (Rigoletto), Maria Callas (Gilda), Giuseppe di Stefano (Il Duca di Mantova), Nicola Zaccaria (Sparafucile), Adriana Lazzarini (Maddalena), Giuse Gerbino (Giovanna), Plinio Clabassi (Monterone), William Dickie (Marullo), Renato Ercolani (Borsa), Carlo Forti (Il Conte di Ceprano), Elvira Galassi (La Contessa di Ceprano), Luisa Mandelli (Un paggio) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin Il Trovatore studio recording, 2001 Roberto Alagna (Manrico), Larissa Diadkova (Azucena), Angela Gheorghiu (Leonora), Thomas Hampson (Il Conte di Luna), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Ferrando), Federica Proietti (Ines), Enrico Facini (Ruiz), Riccardo Simonetti (Un vecchio zingaro), Andrew Busher (Un messo) London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices, Sir Antonio Pappano I Vespri Siciliani recorded live from concert performances, 1989-90 Giorgio Zancanaro (Guido di Montforte), Enzo Capuano (Il Sire di Bethume), Francesco Musinu (Il Conte Vaudemont), Chris Merritt (Arrigo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Giovanni da Procida), Cheryl Studer (La Duchessa Elena), Gloria Banditelli (Ninetta), Ernesto Gavazzi (Danieli), Paolo Barbacini (Tebaldo), Marco Chingari (Roberto), Ferrero Poggi (Manfredo) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti Simon Boccanegra studio recording, 1957 Tito Gobbi (Simon Boccanegra), Boris Christoff (Jacopo Fiesco), Victoria de los Ángeles (Amelia/Maria), Giuseppe Campora (Gabriele Adorno), Walter Monachesi (Paolo Albiani), Paolo Dari (Pietro), Silvia Bertona (Un'ancella), Paolo Caroli (Un capitano dei balestrieri) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Gabriele Santini Un ballo in maschera studio recording, 1975 Plácido Domingo (Riccardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Renato), Martina Arroyo (Amelia), Fiorenza Cossotto (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), Giorgio Giorgetti (Silvano), Gwynne Howell (Samuele), Richard Van Allan (Tom), Kenneth Collins (Un Giudice) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Haberdashers' Aske's School Girls Choir, Riccardo Muti La forza del destino studio recording, 1986 Giorgio Zancanaro (Don Carlo), Plácido Domingo (Don Alvaro), Mirella Freni (Leonora di Vargas), Giorgio Surjan (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Dolora Zajick (Preziosilla), Sesto Bruscantini (Fra Melitone), Francesca Garbi (Curra), Paul Plishka (Padre Guardiano), Ernesto Gavazzi (Mastro Trabuco), Frank Hadrian (Un Chirurgo), Silvestro Sammaritano (Un Alcalde) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti Don Carlo studio recording, 1970 Plácido Domingo (Don Carlo), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo II), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Giovanni Foiani (Il Grande Inquisitore), Simon Estes (Un Frate), Montserrat Caballé (Elisabetta di Valois), Shirley Verrett (La principessa Eboli), Delia Wallis (Tebaldo), Ryland Davies (Il Conte di Lerma), John Noble (Un Araldo Reale), María-Rosa del Campo (Una voce dal cielo) Orchestra of Covent Garden, Ambrosian Singers, Carlo Maria Giulini Aida studio recording, 1965/6 Birgit Nilsson (Aida), Franco Corelli (Radamès), Grace Bumbry (Amneris), Mario Sereni (Amonasro), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Ramphis), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Il Re di Egitto), Mirella Fiorentini (Una Sacerdotessa), Piero De Palma (Un Messaggero) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Zubin Mehta Otello live recording, 1970 Jon Vickers (Otello), Mirella Freni (Desdemona), Peter Glossop (Iago), Ryland Davies (Cassio), Hans Wegmann (Rodrigo), Luigi Roni (Lodovico), Siegfried Rudolf Frese (Montano), Stefania Malagù (Emilia), Victor von Halem (Un Araldo) Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Herbert von Karajan Falstaff studio recording, 1956 Tito Gobbi (Falstaff), Rolando Panerai (Ford), Luigi Alva (Fenton), Tomaso Spataro (Dr Cajus), Renato Ercolani (Bardolfo), Nicola Zaccaria (Pistola), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Alice Ford), Anna Moffo (Nannetta), Nan Merriman (Meg Page), Fedora Barbieri (Mistress Quickly) Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan La Traviata live recording, 1980 Renata Scotto (Violetta), Alfredo Kraus (Alfredo), Renato Bruson (Germont), Sarah Walker (Flora), Cynthia Buchan (Annina), Suso Mariategui (Gastone), Roderick Kennedy (Dottore Grenvil), Henry Newman (Barone Douphol), Richard Van Allan (Marchese d'Obigny) Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Riccardo Muti |
To kick off the Verdi year, EMI Classics brings together 16 of Verdi’s operatic masterpieces, ranging from his first real success, Nabucco, to his last, Falstaff, and includes such stalwarts of the repertoire as Aida, La traviata and Rigoletto. Born 10th October 1813, his status as one of the greatest opera composers of all time has never been higher. Proposed at an unbeatable price, this box features the finest versions of the EMI catalogue which literally means the Pantheon of the entire discography. | 
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| |  | Rolando Villazon sings Verdi
“Villazón's fiery, temperamental vocal character is particularly well suited to Verdi's heroes, and he delivers "La Donna è Mobile" with every ounce of the Duke's disdainful promiscuity on bulging display.” The Independent, 5th January 2013 *** “All those excerpts [Rigoletto, Macbeth, Don Carlo, La Traviata and I Lombardi], in a slightly resonant acoustic, show Villazon to be a master Verdian, able to realise the composer’s intentions by following the music exactly as intended...a good memento of a singer in his vocal prime in repertoire in which, for too brief a period, he excelled.” MusicWeb International, 18th April 2013 |
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| |  | Essential Verdi
Verdi: | Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) Sempre libera (from La Traviata) Noi siamo zingarelle (from La Traviata) Di Madride noi siam mattadori (from La Traviata) Teneste la promessa...Addio, del passato (from La Traviata) Caro nome (from Rigoletto) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Un di, se ben rammentomi... Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto) Tacea la notte (from Il Trovatore) Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore) Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) Surta è la notte...Ernani! Ernani, involami (from Ernani) Nel dì della vittoria … Ambizioso spirto … Vieni t'affretta! … Or tutti sorgete (Lady Macbeth) Patria oppressa (from Macbeth) O figli … Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera) Al suon del tamburo (from La Forza del Destino) Rataplan, rataplan, della gloria (from La forza del destino) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida) Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida) O terra, addio (from Aida) Dies Irae (from Requiem) Ingemisco (from Requiem) Fuoco di gioia (from Otello) Dio, che nell'alma infondere (from Don Carlo) Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo) O don fatale (from Don Carlo) |
The operas of Verdi today form the mainstay of the repertoire of opera houses all over the world. Some of his music has become absorbed into popular culture from being used in TV adverts and film soundtracks, as well as being performed by the most famous classical singers of the day in concerts and on records. Pieces from the same opera are grouped together, beginning with the famous drinking song from La traviata: ‘Libiamo’, followed by other popular favourites from La traviata, Rigoletto and Il trovatore, among them being the swaggering ‘La donna è mobile’ and the powerful Anvil Chorus. The first CD concludes with extracts from two earlier operas: Ernani and Macbeth, the latter providing one of Verdi’s most impressive soprano scenas in which the scheming Lady Macbeth calls on the powers of evil to assist her in murdering King Duncan. The second CD opens with the heartfelt chorus: ‘Va, pensiero’ from Nabucco, sung by the Hebrews in exile longing for their homeland. Then come more well-known arias and choruses from Verdi’s later operas like Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino and Aida. After extracts from his moving Requiem Mass, we hear the Fire Chorus from another of Verdi’s Shakespearian settings: Otello and the programme ends with three items from what some now consider to be Verdi’s finest work, the historical drama Don Carlo. |
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| |  | Flieg, Gedanke (Verdi operas sung in German)
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| |  | Maria Callas: Verdi
Verdi: | Aida recorded live in 1951 Maria Callas (Aida), Mario del Monaco (Radamès), Giuseppe Taddei (Amonasro), Oralia Dominguez (Amneris), Roberto Silva (Ramfis), Ignacio Ruffino (Il Re di Egitto), Rosa Rodríguez (Una Sacerdotessa), Carlos Sagarminaga (Un Messaggero) Orquesta y Coro del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Oliviero de Fabritiis Macbeth recorded live in 1952 Maria Callas (Lady Macbeth), Enzo Mascherini (Macbeth), Gino Penno (Macduff), Italo Tajo (Banco), Luciano della Pergola (Malcolm), Angela Vercelli (Dama), Dario Caselli (Medico), Attilio Barbesi (Domestico), Mario Tommasini (Sicaro) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Victor de Sabata La Traviata recorded live in 1955 Maria Callas (Violetta), Giuseppe di Stefano (Alfredo), Ettore Bastianini (Giorgio), Silvana Zanolli (Flora), Luisa Mandelli (Annina), Giuseppe Zampieri (Gastone), Arturo La Porta (Baron Douphol), Antonio Zerbini (Marchese d'Obigny), Silvio Maionica (Dottore Grenvil) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Carlo Maria Giulini Un ballo in maschera recorded live in 1957 Maria Callas (Amelia), Giuseppe di Stefano (Riccardo), Ettore Bastianini (Renato), Giulietta Simionato (Ulrica), Eugenia Ratti (Oscar), Giuseppe Morresi (Silvano), Antonio Cassinelli (Samuele), Marco Stefanoni (Tom) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gianandrea Gavazzeni |
Maria Callas, one of the most celebrated sopranos of the 20th century, performed more roles by Verdi than by any other composer. With her supreme dramatic presence and stunning voice, Callas is revered for her command of Verdi’s style and her sensitive and convincing portrayal of his tragic heroines. This collection captures all the drama of Callas’s thrilling live performances in four of Verdi’s greatest operatic masterpieces and is one of the EMI Classics releases marking the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, which will occur on 10 October 2013. |
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| |  | Essential Choral
Excerpts from works by Allegri, JS Bach, Brahms, Fauré, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Orff, Tavener, Vivaldi, Verdi and more
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| |  | Verdi: Requiem Mass & Te Deum
Originally released in 1986, this set was one of our classical best sellers for well over a decade, and was reissued in improved sound in 2003 due to popular demand. Harvey Sachs writes in his liner notes “Performances of the Verdi Requiem often emphasize the work’s dramatic aspects to the detriment of its lyricism, or vice-versa. Here, Toscanini balances these elements completely convincingly…we are unlikely to hear a more overwhelming performance of the work than this. “For a conductor famous for incandescence and relentless intensity, this account of the Requiem, from a Carnegie Hall concert of November 23, 1940, is most remarkable for its lyrical beauty and its breadth” Sunday Times, 10th March 2013 |
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| |  | Essential Opera Divas
Beethoven: | Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (from Fidelio) | Bellini: | Casta Diva (from Norma) | Donizetti: | Spargi d'amaro pianto (from Lucia di Lammermoor) | Dvorak: | Mesícku na nebi hlubokém 'Song to the Moon' (from Rusalka) | Gluck: | Dieux puissants que j'atteste… Jupiter, lance la foudre (from Iphigénie en Aulide) | Gounod: | Ah! Je ris de me voir (from Faust) Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (from Roméo et Juliette) | Handel: | Ma quando tornerai (from Alcina) | Korngold: | Glück, das mir verbleib 'Marietta's Lied' (from Die Tote Stadt) | Meyerbeer: | Ombra leggiera (Dinorah) | Mozart: | Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro) Or sai chi l'onore (from Don Giovanni) Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (from Don Giovanni) In quali eccessi ... Mi tradì quell'alma ingrate (from Don Giovanni) Non mi dir (from Don Giovanni) Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (from Die Zauberflöte) Ach, ich fühl's (from Die Zauberflöte, K620) Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (from Zaïde) | Puccini: | Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly) Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine) O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) In questa reggia (from Turandot) | Rossini: | Una voce poco fa (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) | Verdi: | D'amor sull'ali rosee (from Il Trovatore) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Ô ma chère compagne (from Don Carlos) Ave Maria (from Otello) | Vivaldi: | Il Bajazet (Il Tamerlano) : Anch'il mar par che sommerga | Wagner: | Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser) Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen (from Lohengrin) |
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French Army's Choir, Commandante Aurore Tillac, Capitaine Émilie Fleury Unique men’s professional choir in France, and founded in 1982, it numbers 45 singers. Part of the French Republican Guard, it’s the official choir of the republic of France. The choir regularly performs with the large French symphonic orchestras, under conductors such as Yutaka Sado, Christoph Eschenbach, Pierre Boulez, Michel Plasson, Peter Eötvos. |
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| |  | Verdi: Opera Highlights
Verdi: | Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata) Caro nome (from Rigoletto) Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (from Rigoletto) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto) Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Il balen del suo sorriso (from Il Trovatore) Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore) Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) D'amor sull'ali rosee (from Il Trovatore) Ai nostri monti (from Il trovatore) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Nel dì della vittoria … Ambizioso spirto … Vieni t'affretta! … Or tutti sorgete (Lady Macbeth) Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera) O tu che in seno agli angeli (from La Forza del Destino) Rataplan, rataplan, della gloria (from La forza del destino) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Dio, che nell'alma infondere (from Don Carlo) O don fatale (from Don Carlo) O Carlo, ascolta (from Don Carlo) Celeste Aida (from Aida) Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) O terra, addio (from Aida) Era la notte (from Otello) Ave Maria (from Otello) L'onore! Ladri! (from Falstaff) Del tuo barbero diagnostico (from Falstaff) |
Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballe, Mirella Freni, Leontyne Price, Beverly Sills, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sopranos), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo), Placido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus, Jon Vickers, Carlo Bergonzi (tenors), Sherrill Milnes, Tito Gobbi (baritones) Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Herbert von Karajan |
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