The Best of Italian Operas (52)

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Michael Hampe (stage director), Gabriele Ferro (conductor) – With David Kuebler (Count Almaviva), Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina)...

• Schwetzingen Festpiele (Schwetzingen, Germany)

Puccini's La Bohème

Claus Guth (stage director), Gustavo Dudamel (music direction) – With Nicole Car (Mimì), Aida Garifullina (Musetta), Atalla Ayan (Rodolfo)...

Puccini's Tosca

Nicolas Joel (stage director), Daniel Oren (conductor) – With Svetla Vassileva (Tosca), Gustavo Porta (Cavaradossi), Sergey Murzaev (Scarpia)...

• The Opera Festival (Masada, Israel)

Rossini's Armida

Mariame Clément (stage director), Alberto Zedda (musical direction) – With Carmen Romeu (Armida), Enea Scala (Rinaldo)...

• Flanders Opera (Antwerp, Belgium)

Verdi's Attila

Arturo Gama (stage director), Valery Gergiev (musical direction) – With Ildar Abdrazakov (Attila), Vladislav Sulimsky (Ezio), Anna Markarova (Odabella)...

• Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Verdi's Nabucco

Arnaud Bernard (stage director), Daniel Oren (direction) – With George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Rubens Pelizzari (Ismaele)...

• Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

Claudio Abbado conducts Italian opera arias – With Bryn Terfel, Sergei Larin, and Angela Gheorghiu

Waldbühne 1996: An Italian Night – Berliner Philharmoniker

Verdi's Rigoletto

Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director), Fabio Luisi (conductor) – With Juan Diego Flórez (Il Duca di Mantova), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda) –...

• Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, Germany)

Verdi's Aida

José Antonio Gutiérrez (stage director), Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (music director) – Daniela Dessì (Aïda), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès) – Gran Teatre del L...

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

Annabel Arden (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Danielle de Niese (Rosina), Alessandro Corbelli (Dr Bartolo), Taylor Stayton (Count Alma...

Puccini's Turandot

Stefano Poda (stage director), Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) – With Rebeka Lokar (Princess Turandot), Jorge de León (Prince Calaf), Erika Grimaldi (Liù)...

Verdi's La Traviata

Peter Mussbach (stage director), Yutaka Sado (music director) – Avec Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont)

Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda

Daniel Schmid (stage director), Marcello Viotti (conductor) – With Edita Gruberova (Beatrice di Tenda), Michael Volle (Filippo Maria Visconti) – Zurich Ope...

• Zürich Opera House (Zurich, Switzerland)

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser (stage directors), Evelino Pidò (music director) – With Natalie Dessay (Lucie) and Ludovic Tézier (Henri Asthon)

• Lyon Opera House (Lyons, France)

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

Nikolaus Lehnoff (stage director), Carlo Rizzi (conductor) – With Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Lucio Gallo (Jack Rance) and Zoran Todorovich (Dick Johnson...

• De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Bellini's I Puritani

Francisco Negrín (stage director), Giuliano Carella (conductor) – With Mariola Cantarero (Elvira) and John Osborn (Lord Arturo Talbo)... – Het Muziektheater

• The Amsterdam Music Theatre (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Ansgar Weigner (stage director), Frank Beermann (music director) – Die Theater Chemnitz

• Die Theater Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany)

Verdi's Don Carlos

Nicholas Hytner (stage director), Sir Antonio Pappano (music director) – With Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rod...

• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

Verdi's Falstaff

Richard Jones (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Christopher Purves (Falstaff), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Jennifer Hollo...

Puccini's Turandot

Peter McClintock (stage director), Donald Runnicles (conductor) – With Eva Marton (Turandot), Michael Sylvester (Calaf) – San Francisco Opera

• San Francisco Opera (San Francisco, California, USA)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini

Grischa Asagaroff (stage director), Nello Santi (conductor) – With Vesselina Kasarova (Rosina) – Opernhaus Zürich

Claudio Abbado conducts Tchaikovsky and Verdi

Europakonzert 1998, Stockholm

Riccardo Muti and Violeta Urmana perform Verdi, Martucci and Schubert

Europakonzert 2009, Napoli

• Teatro di San Carlo (Napoli, Italy)

Giacomo Puccini, The End of the Voice

Chamber Music Collection

Tito Gobbi sings Verdi and Puccini

Extracts from Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi and Tosca – 1965

La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini

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Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

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