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TO ORDER +44 (0)20 7613 2858 or online: www.opera-rara.com direct SPECIAL RELEASESS NEW ON DVD OPERA RARA NEW RELEASE direct SPECIAL RELEASES SPECIAL RELEASES 10% off orders of RECORDING THE WORLD’S over £100 RAREST OPERAS SPECIAL OFFERS GREAT SAVINGS The mail-order specialist for See pages 8 and 22 ISSUE 45 rare recordings AUGUST 2010 OPERA RARA – RECORDING THE WORLD’S RAREST OPERAS 1 1 NEW FROM MYTO OPERA RARA – RECORDING THE WORLD’S RAREST OPERAS 0% 0% NEW RELEASE off off ROSSINI: Ermione Carmen Giannattasio, Patricia Bardon, Colin Lee, Bülent Bezdüz, Graeme orders of over orders of over Broadbent, Rebecca Bottone, Victoria Simmonds, Loïc Félix, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry – conductor In this studio recording Opera Rara recreates DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor PUCCINI: Tosca magnificently the tension and staggering Lily Pons, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Frank Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Piero originality of this lost masterpiece, set in the Valentino, Jerome Hines, Metropolitan Opera Campolonghi, Palacio de Bellas Artes £1 aftermath of the Trojan war House Orchestra and Chorus, Pietro Cimara – Orchestra and Chorus, Guido Picco – £1 conductor (New York, 1 January 1949) conductor (Mexico City, 1 July 1952) 00 ORC42 (2CD) £28.99 00 00226 (2CD) £11.99 00236 (2CD) £11.99 ‘Carmen Giannattasio’s performance was a triumph’ – Geoff Brown, The Sunday Times SEE SPECIAL OFFER ON PAGE 8 (reviewing the concert performance) RECENT RELEASES VERDI: Aida VERDI: La battaglia di Legnano Maria Callas, Kurt Baum, Giulietta Leyla Gencer, Gastone Limarilli, Simionato, Jess Walters, Joan Sutherland, Giuseppe Taddei, Maggio Musicale Covent Garden Orchestra and Opera Fiorentino Orchestra and Chorus, Chorus, Sir John Barbirolli – conductor Vittorio Gui – conductor (London, 10 June 1953) (Florence, 10 May 1959) 00242 (2CD) £11.99 00243 (2CD) £11.99 Celebrating 40 Years – Then and Now OFFENBACH: Vert-Vert Annick Massis, Bruce Ford, Jennifer Larmore, Thora Einarsdottir, Ann Taylor, Lucy Crowe, Toby Spence, Carmen Giannattasio, Colin Lee, Toby Spence, Mark Le Brocq, Mark Stone, Nelly Miricioiu, Paul Nilon, Yvonne Kenny, Anne-Marie Owens, Franck Leguérinel, Loïc Susan Patterson, Alan Opie, Della Jones Félix, Jennifer Larmore, Sébastien Droy, Franck To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Opera Lopez, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Rara has compiled this stunning collection Orchestra, David Parry – conductor of highlights from its incomparable catalogue. ORC41 (2CD) £28.99 It includes excerpts from the very first recording, VERDI: Macbeth WAGNER: Lohengrin (sung in Italian) Donizetti’s Ugo conte di Parigi, through to the ‘The music, here exquisitely played, is as Maria Callas, Enzo Mascherini, Gino Sandor Kónya, Marcella Pobbe, Aldo recent, Rossini’s Ermione skilfully wrought and as tuneful as any Penno, Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Protti, Milan RAI Orchestra and Chorus, ORR248 (1CD) £9.99 Offenbach, and the first-rate cast pitches Chorus, Victor de Sabata – conductor Ferdinand Leitner – conductor its performances at exactly the right level’ (Milan, 7 December 1952) (Milan, 8 September 1959) – The Sunday Times 063H115 (2CD) £11.99 00224 (3CD) £17.99 to order +44 (0)20 7613 2858 or online: www.opera-rara.com +44 (0)20 7613 2858 or online: www.opera-rara.com to order 2 3 1 1 SPECIAL OFFERS NEW FROM MYTO 0% 0% off off orders of over orders of over VERDI: Il trovatore BIZET: Carmen GOUNOD: Faust VERDI: La forza del destino Jussi Björling, Norina Greco, Francesco Giulietta Simionato, Nicolai Gedda, Hilde Renata Scotto, Eugenio Fernandi, Gian Zinka Milanov, Gino Penno, Leonard Valentino, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Güden, Michel Roux, Vienna Symphony Giacomo Guelfi, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, RAI Warren, Metropolitan Opera House £1 Chorus, Ferruccio Calusio – conductor (New Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Turin Symphony Orchestra, Armando La Orchestra and Chorus, Fritz Stiedry – York, 11 January 1941) conductor (Vienna, 8 October 1954) Rosa Parodi – conductor (Turin, 6 July 1959) conductor (New York, 20 March 1954) £1 00 RM11.913 (2CD) Only £7.99 RM11.918 (2CD) Only £7.99 00246 (2CD) £11.99 00244 (2CD) £11.99 00 DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale ROSSINI: Il barbiere di Siviglia VERDI: Nabucco TCHAIKOVSKY: Eugen Onegin Renato Capecchi, Bruna Rizzoli, Giuseppe Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, Cesare Ettore Bastianini, Margherita Roberti, (sung in German) Valdengo, Teatro di San Carlo Orchestra and Valletti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Gastone Limarilli, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Valerie Bak, George London, Anton Dermota, Chorus, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli – Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf – conductor Orchestra and Chorus, Bruno Bartoletti – Gottlob Frick, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, conductor (Naples, September 1955) (New York, September 1958) conductor (Florence, 10 July 1959) Richard Kraus – conductor (Munich, 1954) GOP66.393 (2CD) Only £7.99 GOP66.387 (2CD) Only £7.99 00245 (2CD) £11.99 00248 (2CD) £11.99 HANDEL: Tamerlano PUCCINI: Tosca MARSCHNER: Der Templer und die Jüdin WAGNER: Tannhäuser Janet Baker, Maureen Lehane, Alexander Régine Crespin, Giuseppe di Stefano, Liane Synek, Georg Oeggl, Fritz Sperlbauer, Margaret Harshaw, Astrid Varnay, Ramón Young, English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Giuseppe Taddei, Bruno Bartoletti – Grosses Orchester der RAVAG, Kurt Tenner Vinay, George London, Metropolitan Opera Lewis – conductor (London, November 1972) conductor (Buenos Aires, 11 July 1965) – conductor (Vienna, 18/20 September House Orchestra and Chorus, George Szell – Plus: Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été with Janet Baker, Galina Vishnevskaya, Virgilius Noreika, 1951) Only recording available conductor (New York, 9 January 1954) Colin Davis (Boston, 1972) Vladimir Valaitis, Mark Ermler – conductor 00249 (2CD) £11.99 00247 (3CD) £17.99 PO1058 (3CD) Only £9.99 (Moscow, 31 March 1971) PO1057 (4CD) Only £10.99 to order +44 (0)20 7613 2858 or online: www.opera-rara.com +44 (0)20 7613 2858 or online: www.opera-rara.com to order 4 5 1 1 NEW FROM WALHALL BONGIOVANNI 0% 0% off off orders of over orders of over OFFENBACH: Les Contes d’Hoffmann VERDI: La traviata SMAREGLIA: Nozze Istriane RICCITELLI: I Compagnacci £1 Richard Tucker, George London, Laurel Licia Albanese, Cesare Valletti, Mario Svetla Vassileva, Ian Storey, Alberto Armando Ariostini, Maurizio Frusoni, £1 00 Hurley, Lucine Amara, Belén Amparán, Sereni, Helen Vanni, Metropolitan Mastromarino, Giorgio Surjan, Enzo Carla Laudi, Antonio de 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Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Zapparoli, Orchestra Filarmonica Ab Harmoniae Chorus and Orchestra, Chorus, Thomas Schippers – conductor Karl Böhm – conductor Marchigiana, Coro Lirico Daniele Agiman – conductor (New York, 5 March 1960) (New York, 7 March 1959) Marchigiano ‘Vincenzo Bellini’, Bruno GB2447/48 (2CD) £25.99 WLCD0304 (2CD) £11.99 WLCD0303 (4CD) £23.99 Aprea – conductor GB2328/29 (2CD) £25.99 to order +44 (0)20 7613 2858 or online: www.opera-rara.com +44 (0)20 7613 2858 or online: www.opera-rara.com to order 6 7 ISSUE 45 10% off orders of over £100 AUGUST 2010 • Please tick appropriate boxes 1 NEW FROM MYTO 3 OPERA RARA SPECIAL OFFERS ORDER FORM – PULL OUT CENTRE PAGES 0% Opera Rara SpecialOffers Offers end 30 September 2010 00226 2CD Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor £11.99 □ 00236 2CD Puccini: Tosca £11.99 □ off ROSSINI: Ermione 00242 2CD Verdi: Aida £11.99 □ Carmen Giannattasio, Patricia Bardon, 00243 2CD Verdi: La battaglia di 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