Fernando Corena
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Puccini: Tosca
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
It is a joy to hear Puccini's orchestration ... brought out with such precision ... Karajan's impressiveness consists of more than drawing brilliant playing from the Vienna Philharmonic ...... —
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Building a Library, June 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording
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Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
Hilde Güden (Rosalinde), Waldemar Kmentt (Eisenstein), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Erika Köth (Adele), Regina Resnik (Orlofsky), Peter Klein (Blind), Walter Berry (Falke), Eberhard Wächter (Franke), Erich Kunz (Frosch)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan
Camp charm, beguiling lyricism, all the dialogue and star turns flown in for the traditional gala party, from Leontyne Price singing 'Summertime' to Birgit Nilsson trading a hit from My Fair... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Archive Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall 6th February 1961
Carlo Maria Giulini
This is a concert, not a theatre performance, and it is highly enjoyable. The BBC recording, in mono of course, is excellently balanced…Master and man are well matched Corena…is a fully rounded... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Collectionneur
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
RecommendedHilde Güden (Rosalinde), Eberhard Wächter (Eisenstein), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Rita Streich (Adele), Gerhard Stolze (Orlofsky), Peter Klein (Blind), Walter Berry (Falke), Erich Kunz (Frank), Josef Meinrad (Frosch), Elfriede Ott (Ida)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker,...
The most luxuriantly Viennese of all Fledermice, with Karajan and the Philharmonic at their most effervescent and a delectable Staatsoper cast, plus a gala of 1950s Decca stars including Björling,... —
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Building a Library, September 2022, Also Recommended
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
RecommendedTeresa Berganza, Fernando Corena, Rolando Panerai, Giuliana Travolaccini, Miti Truccata Pace, Paolo Montarsolo & Luigi Alva
Orchestra a Coro del Maggio & Musicale Fiorentino, Silvio Varviso
This recording of L'italiana in Algeri was made in the Teatro de la Pergola, Florence in the summer of 1963...Rolando Panerai is his usual incomparably humorous self. The recording is typical... —
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Building a Library, October 1999, Second Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Lifetime Achievement Award
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedCesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Suzanne Danco (Donna Anna), Lisa della Casa (Donna Elvira), Fernando Corena (Leporello), Anton Dermota (Don Ottavio), Hilde Gueden (Zerlina), Walter Berry (Masetto), Kurt Böhme (Il Commendatore)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Josef Krips
A 1955 classic that still captivates thanks to Krips's darkly dramatic atmosphere and a ripe Viennese cast headed by Siepi's richly Italianate seducer, sardonic Corena and the brilliant Della... —
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Building a Library, July 2018, Also recommended
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492
RecommendedRoberta Peters (soprano), Giorgio Tozzi (baritone), Fernando Corena (bass), Sandra Warfield (mezzo-soprano), Rosalind Elias (soprano), George London (baritone), Gabor Carelli (tenor), Lisa Della Casa (soprano), Annie Felbermeyer (soprano), Ljubomir Pantscheff (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener...
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Grammy Awards, 2nd Awards (1959), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Cesare Siepi, Gottlob Frick, Elisabeth Grummer, Leopold Simoneau, Lisa Della Casa, Ferando Corena, Walter Berry & Rita Streich
Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Dimitri Mitropoulous
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Puccini: Il Trittico
Il Tabarro Robert Merrill (Michele), Mario del Monaco (Luigi), Renata Tebaldi (Giorgetta), Lucia Danieli (La Frugola), Renato Ercolani (Il Tinca), Silvio Maionica (Il Talpa), Piero de Palma (Venditore di canzonette), Gianfranco Manganott & Dora Carral (Due Amanti)
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