Giuseppe Di Stefano - Legendary Performances (2007) [14xCD]

• Title: Legendary Performances
  
• Year Of Release: 2007
  
• Label: Bravissimo Rec.
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: APE (*image + .cue,log)
  
• Total Time: 13:04:43
  
• Total Size: 2,9 GB (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Seven complete operas starring the legendary Giuseppe Di Stefano - great live opera recordings at budget price in one space-saving set!

Exciting live recordings taped 1952-1961.

During his peak years, Giuseppe Di Stefano (b. 1921) had one of the most sensually beautiful tenor voices ever recorded. He was universally regarded as the leading lyric tenor in the world during the 1950's and he was the tenor most often chosen to appear on stage with Maria Callas. Through the years he made a long series of major recordings, many of them with Callas, but also with other great sopranos of the time, including Renata Tebaldi and Birgit Nilsson. Throughout the major part of his career, Di Stefano was idolized by the public for his beautiful romantic voice, dark good looks, energetic manner, and movie-star lifestyle. His career, though brilliant, was cut a bit short, as his voice seriously deteriorated in quality in his early fifties.


Tracks:

CDs 1-3: Vincenzo Bellini - “I puritani”
Maria Callas (Elvira), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Arturo), Piero Campolonghi (Riccardo), Roberto Silva (Giorgio), Ignacio Ruffino (Gualtiero), Tanis Lugo (Bruno), Rosa Rimoch (Enrichetta)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro de Bellas Artes
Guido Picco, conductor
Live performance, Mexico City, May 29, 1952

CDs 4-5: Giuseppe Verdi - “Rigoletto”
Maria Callas (Gilda), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Duke of Mantua), Piero Campolonghi (Rigoletto), Ignacio Ruffino (Sparafucile), Maria Teresa Garcia (Maddalena), Gilberto Cerda (Monterone), Carlos Sagarminaga (Borsa)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro de Bellas Artes
Humberto Mugnai, conductor
Live performance, Mexico City, June 17, 1952

CD 6: Pietro Mascagni - “Cavalleria rusticana”
Giuseppe Di Stefano (Turiddu), Giulietta Simionato (Santuzza), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Alfio), Gabriella Carturan (Lola), Ortensia Beggiato (Mamma Lucia)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Antonino Votto, conductor
Live performance, Milan, May 10, 1955

CDs 7-8: Gaetano Donizetti - “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Maria Callas (Lucia di Lammermoor), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Edgardo di Ravenswood), Rolando Panerai (Lord Enrico Ashton), Nicola Zaccaria (Raimondo Bidebent), Giuseppe Zampieri (Lord Arturo Bucklaw), Mario Carlin (Normanno), Luisa Villa (Alisa)
La Scala Chorus & RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Live performance, Berlin, September 29, 1955

CDs 9-10: Giacomo Puccini - “Turandot”
Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Calaf), Rosanna Carteri (Liù), Giuseppe Modesti (Timur), Angelo Mercuriali (Emperor Altoum), Renato Capecchi (Ping), Mario Ferrari (Pang), Piero de Palma (Pong), Luigi Testa (Mandarin)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Antonino Votto, conductor
Live performance, Milan, December 7, 1958

CDs 11-12: Giacomo Puccini - “Tosca”
Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Mario Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Baron Scarpia), Nicola Zaccaria (Angelotti), Virgilio Carbonari (Sacristan), Piero de Palma (Spoletta), Giuseppe Morresi (Sciarrone), Antonio Negri (Shepherd), Franco Piva (Jailer)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
Live performance, Milan, December 12, 1959

CDs 13-14: Umberto Giordano - “Fedora”
Renata Tebaldi (Fedora), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Loris), Mario Sereni (De Siriex), Sofia Mizzetti (Olga), Vittorio Buccini (Dimitri), Mariano Caruso (Désiré/Rouvel), Enrico Campi (Cirillo), Giovanni Amedeo (Grech), Mario Frosini (Borov), Mario Cioffi (Lorek), Luigi Padillo (Sergio), Gerardo Garofalo - piano (Lazinski), Tina Esca (Savoyard), Gennaro Ciocca (Nicola)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples
Arturo Basile, conductor
Live performance, Naples, December 14, 1961

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