Legendary Performances of Franco Corelli - Box Set 14CDs

Label: Bravissimo
Format : Flac (image + cue)
Cover : Yes

Tracklist :

CD 1:

Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci

Franco Corelli (Canio), Tito Gobbi (Tonio), Mafalda Micheluzzi (Nedda), Mario Carlin (Beppe), Lino Puglisi (Silvio)
RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Alfredo Simonetto
Live performance, Milan, September 26, 1954

CDs 2-3:

Giacomo Puccini
Tosca

Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Franco Corelli (Mario Cavaradossi), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Baron Scarpia), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), Forbes Robinson (Sacristan), David Tree (Spoletta)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Alexander Gibson
Live performance, London, July 1, 1957

CDs 4-5

Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chénier

Franco Corelli (Andrea Chénier), Renata Tebaldi (Maddalena), Ettore Bastianini (Carlo Gérard), Margareta Sjöstedt (Bersi), Elisabeth Höngen (Countess di Coigny), Hilde Konetzni (Madelon), Carlo Forti (Majordomo), Edmund Hurshell (Roucher)
Chorus of the Vienna State Opera & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matačić
Live performance, Vienna, June 26, 1960

CDs 6-7:

Gaetano Donizetti
Poliuto

Franco Corelli (Poliuto), Maria Callas (Paolina), Ettore Bastianini (Severo), Nicola Zaccaria (Callistene), Rinaldo Pelizzoni (Felice), Piero de Palma (Nearco), Virgilio Carbonari (First Christian), Giuseppe Morresi (Second Christian)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan, Antonino Votto
Live performance, Milan, December 7, 1960

CDs 8-10:

Giacomo Meyerbeer
Gli Ugonotti ("Les Huguenots")

Franco Corelli (Raoul), Joan Sutherland (Margarita), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Marcello), Giulietta Simionato (Valentina), Fiorenza Cossotto (Urbano), Giorgio Tozzi (San Bris), Wladimiro Ganzarolli (Nevers), Manuel Spatafora (De Cosse), Piero de Palma (Tavannes), Alfredo Giacomotti (Meru), Antonio Cassinelli (De Retz), Silvio Maionica (Maurevert), Walter Gullino (Bois-Rosé)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Live performance, Milan, June 7, 1962

CDs 11-12

Giuseppe Verdi
Il Trovatore

Franco Corelli (Manrico), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Ettore Bastianini (Count di Luna), Giulietta Simionato (Azucena), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Laurence Dutoit (Ines), Siegfried R. Freze (Ruiz), Rudolf Zummer (Old Gypsy), Kurt Equiluz (Messenger)
Chorus of the Vienna State Opera & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Live performance, Salzburg, July 31, 1962

CDs 13-14

Giacomo Puccini
Turandot

Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Franco Corelli (Calaf), Galina Vishnevskaya (Liù), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur), Angelo Mercuriali (Emperor Altoum), Renato Capecchi (Ping), Franco Ricciardi (Pang), Piero de Palma (Pong), Virgilio Carbonari (Mandarin)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Live performance, Milan, December 7, 1964