The Best of Italian Operas (54)

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)

Verdi's Nabucco

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

• Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

Puccini's La Bohème

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

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

Waldbühne 1996: An Italian Night – Berliner Philharmoniker

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) – Carmen Romeu (Armida), Enea Scala (Rinaldo)...

• Flanders Opera (Andwerp, Belgium)

Verdi's Attila

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

• Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Verdi's Rigoletto

Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Fabio Luisi – Juan Diego Flórez (Il Duca di Mantova), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda) – Semperoper Dresden

• Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, Germany)

Verdi's Aida

Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, José Antonio Gutiérrez – Daniela Dessì (Aïda), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

• 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...

Verdi's La Traviata

Yutaka Sado, Peter Mussbach – Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont)

Rossini's La Cenerentola

Paolo Arrivabeni, Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek – Marianna Pizzolato (Cenerentola), Bruno de Simone (Don Magnifico)...

Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda

Marcello Viotti, Daniel Schmid – Edita Gruberova (Beatrice di Tenda), Michael Volle (Filippo Maria Visconti) – Zurich Opera House

• 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

Carlo Rizzi, Nikolaus Lehnoff – With Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Lucio Gallo (Jack Rance) and Zoran Todorovich (Dick Johnson) – De Nederlandse Opera

• De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Verdi's Luisa Miller

Massimo Zanetti and Jean-Claude Fall – With Patrizia Ciofi (Luisa), Gregory Kunde (Rodolfo)...

Bellini's I Puritani

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

• Het Muziektheater Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Frank Beermann, Ansgar Weigner – Die Theater Chemnitz

• Die Theater Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany)

Verdi's Don Carlos

Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner – Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa) – Royal Opera House,...

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

Riccardo Muti and Violeta Urmana perform Verdi, Martucci and Schubert

Europakonzert 2009, Napoli

• Teatro di San Carlo (Napoli, Italy)

Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers

Paolo Carignani (conductor), Christof Loy (stage director) – With Barbara Haveman (Hélène), Burkhard Fritz (Henri) and Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (Guy de M...

• Het Muziektheater Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Tito Gobbi sings Verdi and Puccini

Extracts from Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi and Tosca – 1965

Giacomo Puccini, The End of the Voice

Chamber Music Collection

La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini

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Rossini's La Gazzetta

Jan Schultsz, Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera – Cinzia Forte (Lisetta), Enrico Marabelli (Don Pomponino)...

Claudio Abbado conducts Tchaikovsky and Verdi

Europakonzert 1998, Stockholm

Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini

Nello Santi, Grischa Asagaroff – Vesselina Kasarova (Rosina) – Opernhaus Zürich