Franco Calabrese
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Puccini: Tosca
Maria Callas (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Franco Calabrese (Angelotti)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Victor de Sabata
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Puccini: Tosca
Maria Callas (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia)
Orchestra La Scala Milan, Victor de Sabata
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
RecommendedMaria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giulio Fioraventi, Dino Formachini
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Tullio Serafin
This performance is unique, with Act 4 for once a culmination in Callas's supreme account of the death scene. She may present a rather formidable portrait of a young girl in Act 1, but here... —
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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Bellini: I Puritani
Lina Pagliughi (Elvira), Mario Filippeschi (Lord Arturo Talbot), Rolando Panerai (Sir Riccardo Forth) & Sesto Bruscantini (Sir Giorgio Walton)
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della Rai, Fernando Previtali
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedRobert Merrill (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Jussi Björling (Il Duca), Anna Maria Rota (Maddalena), Giorgio Tozzi (Sparafucile)
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Jonel Perlea
[On the original release in 1956] under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice. The music is well paced. Björling’s tone is a constant pleasure. He... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: Tosca
1953 recording
Maria Callas (Tosca), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Franco Calabrese (Cesare), Angelo Mercuriali (Spoletta), Melchiorre Luise (Il sagrestano), Dario Caselli (Sciarrone), Alvaro Cordova (Un pastore), Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Victor de Sabata
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Verdi: La Traviata
Anna Moffo (Violetta Valery), Richard Tucker (Alfredo Germont), Robert Merrill (Giorgio Germont), Anna Reynolds (Flora Bervoix), Liliana Poli (Annina), Piero de Palma (Gastone), Franco Calabrese (Baron Duphol), Maria Callas (soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Fernando...
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Cimarosa: Il Credulo
Cesare Valleti, Sesto Bruscantini, Dora Gatta, Elena Rizzieri, Mario Carlin & Franco Calabrese
Turin RAI Orchestra, Alfredo Simonetto
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Puccini: Tosca
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Franco Calabrese, Angelo Mercuriali, Melchiorre Luise
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala Milan, Victor de Sabata
In this remastering of one of the classic performances of the gramophone, one of Walter Legge's masterpieces as a creative recording producer, you barely miss stereo recording. With offstage... —
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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
Maria Callas (Fiorella), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Selim), Nicolai Gedda (Narciso), Franco Calabrese (Geronio), Jolanda Gardino (Zaida), Piero de Palma (Albazar) & Mariano Stabile (Prosdocimo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
The set contains some classic things, above all in Callas's several confrontations with her Selim, the wonderfully grave Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, and her ageing husband, Geronio, sung here with... —
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