Verdi: Great Recordings

Verdi: Ernani Carlo Bergonzi (Ernani), Leontyne Price (Elvira), Mario Sereni (Carlo), Ezio Flagello (Silva), Fernando Iacopucci (Riccardo), Hartje Mueller (Iago), Júlia Hamari (Giovanna) RCA Italiana Orchestra & Chorus, Thomas Schippers Macbeth Leonard Warren (Macbeth), Leonie Rysanek (Lady Macbeth), Jerome Hines (Banco), Carlo Bergonzi (Macduff), William Olvis (Malcolm), Carlotta Ordassy (Dama), Gerhard Pechner (Medico) Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Erich Leinsdorf Luisa Miller Anna Moffo (Luisa), Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo), Cornell MacNeil (Miller),Giorgio Tozzi (Walter), Ezio Flagello (Wurm), Shirley Verrett (Federica), Gabriella Carturan (Laura), Piero De Palma (Contadino) RCA Italiana Orchestra & Chorus, Fausto Cleva Rigoletto Robert Merrill (Rigoletto), Anna Moffo (Gilda), Alfredo Kraus (Il Duca), Ezio Flagello (Sparafucile), Rosalind Elias (Maddalena), Anna Di Stasio (Giovanna), David Ward (Monterone), Robert Kerns (Marullo), Piero De Palma (Borsa), Mario Rinaudo (Conte di Ceprano), Corinna Vozza (Contessa di Ceprano) RCA Italiana Orchestra & Chorus, Georg Solti Il Trovatore Plácido Domingo (Manrico), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Sherrill Milnes (Conte di Luna), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Ferrando), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ines), Ryland Davies (Ruiz), Stanley Riley (Un vecchio zingaro), Neilson Taylor (Un messo) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, Zubin Mehta La Traviata Montserrat Caballé (Violetta), Carlo Bergonzi (Alfredo), Sherrill Milnes (Giorgio), Dorothy Krebill (Flora Bervoix), Nancy Stokes (Annina), Fernando Iacopucci (Gastone), Harold Enns (Grenvil), Gene Boucher (Douphol), Thomas Jamerson (Marchese d'Obigny) RCA Italiana Orchestra & Chorus, Georges Pretre Simon Boccanegra Renato Bruson (Simon Boccanegra), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia Grimaldi), Ruggero Raimondi (Fiesco), Veriano Luchetti (Adorno), Felice Schiavi (Paolo), Konstantin Sfiris (Pietro), Anna Gonda (Un ancella), Ewald Aichberger (Un capitano dei balestrieri) Orchestra and Chorus of the Wiener Staatsoper, James Levine Un ballo in maschera (Highlights) sung in German Rudolf Schock (Riccardo), Hildegard Hillebrecht (Amelia), Eberhard Wächter (Renato), Herta Töpper (Ulrica), Lisa Otto (Oscar) Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Heinrich Hollreiser Don Carlo (highlights) Michael Sylvester (Don Carlo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Filippo II), Aprile Millo (Elisabetta), Dolora Zajick (Eboli), Vladimir Chernov (Rodrigo), Samuel Ramey (Il Grande Inquisitore), Jane Bunnell (Tebaldo), Paul Plishka (Un Frate) Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, James Levine Aida (highlights) Requiem I Vespri Siciliani Sherrill Milnes (Guido di Montforte), Terence Sharpe (Il Sire di Bethume), Richard Van Allan (Il Conte Vaudemont), Plácido Domingo (Arrigo), Ruggero Raimondi (Giovanni da Procida), Martina Arroyo (Elena), Maria Ewing (Ninetta), Leo Goeke (Danieli), Kenneth Collins (Tebaldo), James Morris (Roberto), Alan Byers (Manfredo) New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, James Levine plus: RECITAL-CDs: CD 21: Enrico Caruso CD 22: Eileen Farrell (with Tucker) CD 23: Montserrat Caballé CD 24: Placido Domingo (with Price, Milnes, Ricciarelli) CD 25: Katia Ricciarelli (with Domingo) CD 26: Renata Scotto (with Cotrubas) INSTRUMENTAL CD 27: Preludes and overtures from La forza del destino, Attila, Nabucco, La Traviata, Giovanna d’Arco CD 28: Ballet music from the operas: Les Vêpres siciliennes, Macbeth, Don Carlos, Otello, Aida

30-CD-box for the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi. This special box set contains original recordings of complete early operas as well as opera. highlights, opera recitals and CDs with Ballet music, preludes and overtures. The CDs are in paper sleeves with the original artwork of the former CD/LPs. Great artists such as Carlo Bergonzi, Anna Moffo, Ezio Flagello, Montserrat Caballé, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Enrico Caruso and famous orchestras and conductors such as RCA Italiana Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf, Fausto Cleva, James Levine, Claudio Abbado and many more. The Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was a leading figure of Italian music in the nineteenth century and made important contributions to the development of opera. Numerous of Verdi’s operas are part of the standard operatic repertoire and his works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world.

Price: $89.98