classical music: Mario Borriello

classical music: Mario Borriello

classical music:

Mario Borriello

Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera) Maria Callas; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Eugenio Fernandi; Tullio Serafin

Giacomo Puccini, Tullio Serafin, ...

EMI Classics, 1997

The best Liu on disc
This may come as a surprise but I truly believe that Schwarzkopf is the most touching Liu on disc. It is also amazing to realise in this site how many people simply fail to have an opinion of their own regarding the singing and just repeat some classical reviews made ...

La Fanciulla del West

Giacomo Puccini, Arturo Basile, ...

Opera D'oro, 2000

A wonderful supplement to the commericial offering
Here we have RAI at its best: a beautifully-recorded live taping of one of its radio performances. There's a zip missing from Tebaldi's excellent studio version, but we do get quite a bit of little debris around that you expect in live performances. There is no ...

Classic Puccini Recordings

Puccini, Tebaldi

Decca, 2003

Classic Renata
To say that these 12 disks contain some of the finest singing ever committed to disk is no exaggeration, but a simple statement of fact. Historical fact. In the 100 years (more or less) that Puccini operas have been around, only a few sopranos in each generation have ...

Scarlatti: Il Trionfo dell'Onore

Alessandro Scarlatti, Carlo Maria Giulini, ...

Urania, 2005

Sorry I bought this CD
To start out with, the libretto is entirely in Italian with no English translation and I cannot say a whole lot for the synopsis, although it was better than nothing. The worse thing for me was the recording quality. This was recorded in 1955, and it might as well ...

Maria Callas 100 Best Classics

Mario Borriello, Rolando Panerai, ...

EMI Classics, 2007

Timeless Treasure
Cleverly organized into 6 sections: 1.Bellini 2.Rissini and Donizetti 3.Verdi 4.Puccini 5.French operatic heroines 6.Dramatic heroines This 6 CD package is a must have for every classical music lover. Who can,after all,resist the union of the most beautiful ...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Nicolai Gedda, Herbert von ...

Giacomo Puccini, Herbert von Karajan, ...

EMI Classics, 1997

Perhaps The Best Recorded "Madama Butterfly"
There are many "Butterfly" recordings out there that are excellent in their own right but this recording deserves a category of excellence all it's own. What almost looks like mis-casting on paper, Callas does an astonishing job with the title role, which she recorded ...

Recital
Georges Bizet, Francesco Cilea, ...

Myto Records Italy, 2004

Massenet: Manon (Highlights)
Jules Massenet, Antonio Guarnieri, ...

Myto Records Italy, 2000

Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini, Herbert von Karajan, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

In this collection of releases in the Greatest Recording's of the Century series, we celebrate a series of historical opera/vocal recordings featuring Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Victoria de Los Ángeles, Enrico Caruso, Janet Baker, and more in some of their finest performances. Orchestral/Instrumental releases include such musical luminaries as ...

Puccini: Turandot

Giulio Mauri, Mario Borriello, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Not the best Turandot
Callas, ( I am an extreme admirer of her and consider her the greatest femal singing actress of all time, I also have hundreds of her records) sang a little more than 20 Turandots at the start of her career. She did not like the role itself, and felt that it could ...

Cimarosa: Giannina e Bernardone
Domenico Cimarosa, Nino Sanzogno, ...

G.O.P., 2005

Schubert: Alfonso und Estrella
Franz Schubert, Nino Sanzogno, ...

Gala, 2004

Massenet: Werther

Mario Borriello, Vito Susca, ...

Opera D'oro, 2000

Good Italian language version in spotty sound
Source: Live performance at Teatro Verdi, Trieste, January 20, 1959. Sound: Variable and sometimes exasperating. An earlier Amazon reviewer has stated that the "orchestra sounds like they're playing in a cardboard box somewhere." With regard to the overture, I ...