Piero Cappuccilli
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
RecommendedPiero Cappuccilli (Boccanegra), Mirella Freni (Amelia/Maria), José van Dam (Paolo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Jacopo Fiesco), José Carreras (Gabriele)
La Scala Chorus & Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
This famous recording has become a classic, a studio performance following a series of performances at La Scala in the Strehler staging. The close, slightly claustrophobic recording exactly... —
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Building a Library, April 2000, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Verdi: Nabucco
RecommendedPiero Cappuccilli (Nabucco), Plácido Domingo (Ismaele), Evgeny Nesterenko (Zaccaria), Ghena Dimitrova (Abigaille), Lucia Valentini Terrani (Fenena), Kurt Rydl (Gran Sacerdote), Volker Horn (Abdallo), Lucia Popp (Anna)
Chorus & Orchestra of German Opera Berlin, Giuseppe Sinopoli
Giuseppe Sinopoli's studio recording of Verdi's Babylonian epic has several selling-points: the Bulgarian powerhouse Ghena Dimitrova, absolutely fearless in the fiendish role of Abigaille, Verdi... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bellini: I Puritani
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Elvira), Luciano Pavarotti (Arturo Talbot), Piero Cappuccilli (Riccardo Forth), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Giorgio Walton), Anita Caminada (Enrichetta de France), Gian Carlo Luccardi (Gualtiero Walton), Renato Cazzaniga (Bruno Robertson)
Chorus of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London...
Sutherland's singing here is brighter and fresher than her earlier recording, with the lovely aria 'Qui la voce' no longer a wordless melisma...The recording is vivid and atmospheric and one... —
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Building a Library, First Choice
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Bellini: I Puritani
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Elvira), Luciano Pavarotti (Arturo Talbot), Piero Cappuccilli (Riccardo Forth), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Giorgio Walton), Anita Caminada (Enrichetta de France), Gian Carlo Luccardi (Gualtiero Walton), Renato Cazzaniga (Bruno Robertson)
Chorus of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London...
Sutherland's singing here is brighter and fresher than her earlier recording, with the lovely aria 'Qui la voce' no longer a wordless melisma...The recording is vivid and atmospheric and one... —
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Building a Library, January 2005, First Choice
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Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor
Beverly Sills (Lucia), Carlo Bergonzi (Edgardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico), London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Schippers
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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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Verdi: Rigoletto
Piero Cappuccilli (Rigoletto), Ileana Cotrubas (Gilda), Plácido Domingo (Il Duca), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Sparafucile), Elena Obraztsova (Maddalena), Hanna Schwarz (Giovanna), Kurt Moll (Monterone), Luigi de Corato (Marullo), Walter Gullino (Borsa), Dirk Sagemuller (Conte di Ceprano), Olive Fredricks...
By and large this set of Rigoletto must now become the recommended version. [This recording was met with] excited anticipation at finding Giulini once again in the studio recording his beloved... —
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Verdi: Il trovatore
Ruggero Raimondi (bass), Leontyne Price (soprano), Maria Venuti (mezzo-soprano), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Franco Bonisolli (tenor), Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano), Martin Egel (bass), Horst Nitsche (tenor), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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New. Verdi: Aida
José van Dam (bass, bass-baritone), Ruggero Raimondi (bass), José Carreras (tenor), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Mirella Freni (soprano), Thomas Moser (tenor), Katia Ricciarelli (soprano), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Herbert von Karajan
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Great Verdi Voices
Leontyne Price (soprano), Neil Shicoff (tenor), Julia Varady (soprano), Jose Carreras (tenor), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Franco Bonisolli (tenor), Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano), Renato Bruson (baritone), Arleen Auger (soprano), Sena Jurinac (soprano),...
The first track immediately announces that this compilation means business. At the height of her powers, Leontyne Price launches into 'Ernani, involami' with energy, commanding authority, slightly... —
