The Best of Italian Operas

1988

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)

opera

2017

Verdi's Nabucco

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

Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

concert

Berliner Philharmoniker

1996

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

Waldbühne 1996: An Italian Night – Berliner Philharmoniker

opera

2015

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)

opera

2015

Rossini's Armida

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

Flanders Opera (Andwerp, Belgium)

opera

2010

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)

opera

2008

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)

opera

2003

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)

opera

Glyndebourne

2016

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...

opera

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

2003

Verdi's La Traviata

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

opera

Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

2014

Rossini's La Cenerentola

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

opera

2002

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)

opera

2002

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)

opera

2009

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 Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

opera

Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

2014

Verdi's Luisa Miller

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

opera

2009

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)

opera

2008

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Frank Beermann, Ansgar Weigner – Die Theater Chemnitz

Die Theater Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany)

opera

2008

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)

concert

2009

Riccardo Muti and Violeta Urmana perform Verdi, Martucci and Schubert

Europakonzert 2009, Napoli

Teatro di San Carlo (Napoli, Italy)

opera

2010

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...