This is a partial discography of The Barber of Seville , an opera by Gioachino Rossini. The work was first performed on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
Year | Cast: Rosina Almaviva Figaro Dr. Bartolo Don Basilio | Conductor, Opera house and orchestra | Label |
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1946 | Nelly Corradi Ferruccio Tagliavini Tito Gobbi Vito de Taranto Italo Tajo | Giuseppe Morelli Rome Opera orchestra and chorus | VHS: Pickwick Cat: |
1947 | Lucienne Jourfier Raymond Amade Roger Bourdin Louis Musy Roger Bussonnet | André Cluytens Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique orchestra and chorus (sung in French) | VHS: Codo-Cinéma Cat: |
1959 | Erika Köth Fritz Wunderlich Hermann Prey Max Proebstl Hans Hotter | Joseph Keilberth Bavarian State Opera orchestra and chorus (sung in German) | VHS: Legato Classics Cat: |
1972 | Teresa Berganza Luigi Alva Hermann Prey Enzo Dara Paolo Montarsolo | Claudio Abbado Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus (Film directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, based on his staging at La Scala) [2] | VHS: Deutsche Grammophon DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Streaming HD video: Carnegie Hall+ |
1982 | Maria Ewing Max René Cossotti John Rawnsley Claudio Desderi Ferruccio Furlanetto | Sylvain Cambreling Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus | VHS: Castle Cat: DVD: Warner Cat: |
1988 | Cecilia Bartoli David Kuebler Louis Quilico Carlos Feller Robert Lloyd | Gabriele Ferro Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne Opera chorus | VHS: RCA Cat: DVD: Art Haus Musik Cat: |
1989 | Kathleen Battle Rockwell Blake Leo Nucci Enzo Dara Ferruccio Furlanetto | Ralf Weikert Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus | VHS: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: |
1992 | Jennifer Larmore Richard Croft David Malis Renato Capecchi Simone Alaimo | Alberto Zedda Netherlands Opera orchestra and chorus | DVD: Image Cat: |
2008 | Rinat Shaham Francesco Meli Roberto Frontali Bruno De Simone Giovanni Furlanetto | Antonino Fogliani Teatro La Fenice orchestra and chorus | DVD: Dynamic Cat: 33597 |
2009 | Joyce DiDonato Juan Diego Flórez Pietro Spagnoli Alessandro Corbelli Ferruccio Furlanetto | Antonio Pappano Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus | Blu-ray: Erato [3] DVD: Virgin Classics |
2014 | Isabel Leonard Lawrence Brownlee Christopher Maltman Maurizio Muraro Paata Burchuladze | Michele Mariotti Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (Recorded live, 22 November 2014; production: Bartlett Sher) | Streaming HD video: Met Opera on Demand [4] |
2016 | Danielle de Niese Taylor Stayton Björn Bürger Alessandro Corbelli Christophoros Stamboglis | Enrique Mazzola London Philharmonic Orchestra (recorded live, 21 June 2016, Glyndebourne Festival; stage director: Annabel Arden) | Blu-ray/DVD: Opus Arte [2] Streaming HD video: Glyndebourne Encore [5] |
2018 | Nino Machaidze Dmitry Korchak Leo Nucci Carlo Lepore Ferruccio Furlanetto | Daniel Oren Arena di Verona orchestra and chorus | Blu-ray/DVD: Bel Air [6] |
2019 | Catherine Trottmann Michele Angelini Florian Sempey Peter Kálmán Robert Gleadow | Jérémie Rhorer Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, (Laurent Pelly, stage director) | Blu-ray/DVD: Naxos [7] Cat:2110592 |
Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva is a Peruvian operatic tenor. A Mozart and Rossini specialist, Alva achieved fame with roles such as Don Ottavio, Count Almaviva and Fenton. He retired from the stage in 1989.
This is a discography of Pelléas et Mélisande, an opera by Claude Debussy. The premiere performance was at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 30 April 1902. The list includes all of the studio recordings and also some live performances available on audio CD and DVD.
Sergei Leiferkus is an operatic baritone from Russia, known for his dramatic technique and powerful voice particularly in Russian and Italian language repertoire. He is most notable for his roles as Scarpia in Tosca, Iago in Otello, Grand-prétre de Dagon in Samson et Dalila and Simon Boccanegra as the title role. Leiferkus was born in Leningrad, Russia. He studied music at the St. Petersburg conservatory.
Italo Tajo was an Italian operatic bass, particularly acclaimed for his Mozart and Rossini roles.
Matthew Rose is an English operatic bass.
This is a partial discography of Madama Butterfly, an opera by Giacomo Puccini. The original version of the opera premiered on February 17, 1904, at La Scala in Milan.
This is an audio and video discography of Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner which was first performed on 10 June 1865 in Munich.
This is a partial discography of Lohengrin, an opera by Richard Wagner. The first production was in Weimar, Germany on 28 August 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar, conducted by Franz Liszt.
This is a discography of Tosca, an opera by Giacomo Puccini. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. Tosca has been one of the most frequently recorded operas, dating back to a nearly complete acoustical recording in 1918.
This is a list of recordings of Elektra, a one-act opera by Richard Strauss with a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The work was first performed at the Dresden State Opera on 25 January 1909.
This is a list of recordings of Don Carlos, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, known as Don Carlo in its Italian-language versions. Don Carlos premiered as a five-act French grand opera at the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra in Paris on 11 March 1867. In 1883, Verdi created a revised 4-act (Milan) version, which has generally been performed and recorded in Italian. In 1886, Ricordi published a 5-act (Modena) version without the ballet with the first act added to the 4-act 1883 revision. The 1886 Modena version has been recorded in French and in Italian. Since 1973, some performances in Italian and in French have restored music cut before the Paris premiere, especially the introduction to Act 1.
This is a partial discography of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème which premiered on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
These lists show the audio and visual recordings of L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi. The opera was premiered in Venice in 1642-43, but after a 1651 revival in Naples it remained unperformed for 250 years. It began to enter the general opera repertory in the 1960s, and thereafter was increasingly performed in leading opera houses and festivals.
This is a partial discography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.
This is a partial discography of complete performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. This opera was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786.
This is a list of recordings of Norma, a two-act opera by Vincenzo Bellini with an Italian-language libretto by Felice Romani. It was first performed on 26 December 1831, at La Scala in Milan.
Andrew Shore, is an English operatic baritone.
This is a discography of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Un ballo in maschera. It was first performed at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 17 February 1859.
Glyndebourne Festival Opera: A Gala Evening was a 111-minute concert staged by Glyndebourne Festival Opera on 24 July 1992, performed by Kim Begley, Montserrat Caballé, Cynthia Haymon, Felicity Lott, Benjamin Luxon, Ruggero Raimondi and Frederica von Stade with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis and Sir Bernard Haitink. It was televised in the United Kingdom by the BBC and released on VHS Videocassette by Kultur Video and on DVD by Image Entertainment, Arthaus Musik and Geneon.
Paolo Bordogna is an Italian operatic baritone and bass. He is particularly associated with buffo (comic) roles.
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