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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Otello
Dramma lirico in quattro atti
Libretto di Arrigo Boito
tratto dalla tragedia di William Shakespeare
Otello.... Luciano Pavarotti
Desdemona.... Kiri Te Kanawa
Jago.... Leo Nucci
Cassio.... Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Emilia.... Elzbieta Ardam
Lodovico.... Dimitri Kavrakos
Montano.... Alan Opie
Roderigo.... John Keyes
Un araldo Richard Cohn
Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus
Director: Elena Doria
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Director: Margaret Hillis
Guest Chorus Master: Terry Edwards
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Assitant conductor: Kenneth Jean
Stylistic adviser: Leone Magiera
Repetiteur: Elizaveth Buccheri
Recording locations:
Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 8 & 12 April 1991
Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 & 19 April 1991

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Falstaff
Commedia Lirica in tre atti
Libretto: Arrigo Boito after Shakespeare

Sir John Falstaff.... Paul Plishka
Ford.... Bruno Pola
Fenton.... Frank Lopardo
Dr. Cajus.... Piero di Palma
Bardolfo.... Anthony Courtney
Pistola.... James Courtney
Mrs. Alice Ford... Mirella Freni
Nannetta.... Barbara Bonney
Mrs. Quickly.... Marilyn Horne
Mrs. Meg Page.... Susan Graham
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus master: Raymond Hughes
James Levine
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
October 1992

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Il trovatore
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
Manrico.... Marcelo Àlvarez
Leonora.... Sondra Radvanovsky
Azucena.... Dolora Zajick
Count Luna.... Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Ferrando.... Štefan Kocán
Ines.... Maria Zifchak
Ruiz.... Eduardo Valdes
Messenger.... Raymond Aparentado
Gypsy.... Robert Maher
Director: David McVicar
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Host: Renée Fleming
April 30, 2011

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Simon Boccanegra
Melodrama in a Prologue and Three Acts
Revised 1881 Edition
Original libretto by Francesco Maria Piave for the premiere in 1857, and based on the play Simon Boccanegra by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, with additions and modifications by Arrigo Boito.
Simon Boccanegra, Corsair and Doge of Genoa.... Placido Domingo
Gabrielle Adorno, a Genoese gentleman in love with Maria.... Marcello Giordani
Maria Boccanegra, Simon’s daughter known as Amelia Grimaldi.... Adrianne Pieczonka
Jacapo Fiesco, a Genoese nobleman.... James Morris
James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Chorus,  Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
February 6, 2010

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Don Carlos
Elisabeth de Valois.... Karita Mattila
Princesse Eboli.... Waltraud Meier
Don Carlos.... Roberto Alagna
Rodrigue.... Thomas Hampson
Philippe II.... José van Dam
Grand Inquisiteur.... Eric Halfvarson
Un Moine.... Csaba Airizer
Thibault.... Anat Efraty
Voix d'en haut.... Donna Brown
Choeur du Théâtre du Châtelet
l'Orchestre de Paris
Antonio Pappano
Paris 10, 13 and 16 March, 1996

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La Traviata
Opera in tre atti
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave after La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Director: Sir Peter Hall
Cast: Marie McLaughin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis, Jane Turner, Christopher Thornton-Holmes, Gordon Sandison, John Hall, David Hillman, Enid Hartle, Martyn Harrison, Charles Kerry, the Glyndebourne Chorus
Conductor: Bernard Haitink, the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Macbeth
Opera in four acts
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave & Andrea Maffei
Macbeth.... Sherrill Milnes
Lady Macbeth.... Fiorenza Cossotto
Banquo.... Ruggero Raimondi
Macduff.... José Carreras
Malcom.... Giuliano Bernardi
A lady-waiting.... Maria Borgato
A doctor.... Carlo del Bosco
A servant.... Leslie Fyson
An assassin.... John Noble
A herald.... Neilson Taylor
First appartition.... Christopher Keyte
Second apparition.... Sara Grossman
Third apparition.... Timothy Sprackling
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Chorus master: John McCarthy
New Philharmonia Orchestra Orchestra
Riccardo Muti
Recorded: 5-9.VII.1976, Abbey Road Studios & 13-20.VII.1976, Kingsway Hall, London
Sherrill Milnes appears by courtesy of RCA Records & Tapes
José Carreras appears by courtesy of Phonogram International

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Simon Boccanegra
Melodrama in a Prologue and Three Acts
Revised 1881 Edition
Original libretto by Francesco Maria Piave for the premiere in 1857, and based on the play Simon Boccanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez, with additions and modifications by Arrigo Boito.
Simon Boccanegra, Corsair and Doge of Genoa.... Leo Nucci
Maria Boccanegra, Simon’s daughter known as Amelia Grimaldi.... Kiri Te Kanawa
Jacapo Fiesco, a Genoese nobleman.... Paata Burchuladze
Gabrielle Adorno, a Genoese gentleman in love with Maria.... Giacomo Arragall
Paola Albiani, a courtier.... Paolo Coni
Pietro, another courtier.... Carlo Colombara
Orchestra and chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded in the Sala Abanella, Milan. December 1988

Live from Teatro alla Scala, Milan 2010
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Simon Boccanegra
Melodramma in one prologue and three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito
A production of the Teatro alla Scala in coproduction with the Staatsper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Stage Director: Federico Tiezzi
Chorus Master: Bruno Casoni
set Designer: Pier Paolo Bisleri
Costume Designer: Giovanna Buzzi
Lighting Designer: Marco Filibeck

Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala
Simon Boccanegra.... Plácido Domingo
Jacopo Fiesco.... Ferruccio Furlanetto
Paolo Albiani.... Massimo Cavaelletti
Pietro.... Ernesto Panariello
Amelia Grimaldi (Maria).... Anja Harteros
Gabriele Adorno.... Fabio Sartori
Capitano dei Balestrieri.... Antonello Ceron
Ancella di Amelia.... Alisa Zinovjeva

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La Traviata
Opera in tre atti
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave after La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Violetta Valéry.... Angela Gheorghiu
Alfredo Germont.... Frank Lopardo
Giorgio Germont.... Leo Nucci
Flora Bervoix.... Leah-Marian Jones
Annina.... Gillian Knight
Gastone, Visconte de Letorières.... Robin Leggate
Baron Douphol.... Richard Van Allan
Marchese d'Obigny - Roderick Earle
Dottore Grenvil.... Mark Beesley
Giuseppe.... Neil Griffiths
Domestico di Flora.... Rodney Gibson
Commissionario.... Bryan Secombe
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Chorus Master: Terry Edwards
Orchestra of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sir Georg Solti
Director: Richard Eyre
December 1994