Donizetti: La Favorita

This page lists all recordings of La Favorita, by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Nicolai Gedda - The Early Records 1952 - 1956

Auber:	La Muette de Portici (highlights)
Bizet:	Arias from Pearl Fishers
Cilea:	L’Arlesiana (selected arias)
Donizetti:	Arias from L'elisir d'amore" La Favorita (selected arias)
Flotow:	Martha (selected arias)
Gounod:	Roméo et Juliette (highlights)
Massenet:	Selected arias from Werther and Manon
Mussorgsky:	Boris Godunov (highlights)
Ponchielli:	La Gioconda (selected arias)
Rousseau, J-J:	Le Devin du Village (selected arias)
Tchaikovsky:	Eugene Onegin (extracts)
Verdi:	Rigoletto (excerpts)

Nicolai Gedda (tenor)

Philharmonia, French Radio Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra Orchestra Louis de Froment, Alceo Galliera, Issay Dobrowen and Louis de Froment

Archipel Records - ARPCD0354

(CD)

£4.99 (£4.25 ex. VAT)

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Donizetti: La Favorita

Ronaldo Panerai, Franca Marghinotti, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Giorgio Algorta & Johan van Haagen

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Arturo Basile

(Recorded in Amsterdam 1954)

Ponto - POCD1043

(CD - 2 discs)

£13.49 (£11.48 ex. VAT)

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Donizetti: La Favorita

Viorica Cortez (mezzo), Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Renato Bruson (baritone), Cesare Siepi (bass)

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale dell’Opera di Genova, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

La Favorite was premièred at Paris’s Opéra on 2nd December 1840. Its success was resounding and is witnessed by over 650 performances in that theatre between 1840 and 1904. The Italian version was staged for the first time in Padua in 1842. This recording dates from 1976 and brings us back to the times of Kraus, Cortez, Bruson and Siepi. Especially noteworthy are the Fernando of Kraus, a tenor endowed with a perfect technique and peerless vocal elegance, and the Alfonso of Bruson, a baritone voice of impressive splendour.

Dynamic - CDS480

(CD - 2 discs)

£16.49 (£14.03 ex. VAT)

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