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		<title>Puccini: Romance &#038; Drama / Legendary Singers</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Puccini: Romance &#038; Drama / Legendary Singers</strong>

Callas; Tebaldi; de los 
Angeles, Freni, Price
Björling; di Stefano
Bergonzi; del Monaco               
Merrill; Cossotto etc 
Karajan (Intermezzo)

<strong>Catalogue Number:</strong> ALC 1601
<strong>Number of Discs:</strong> 2
<strong>Date/Runtime:</strong> Time: 149:24, ADD/stereo
<strong>Barcode:</strong> 5055354416019]]></description>
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<ul>
<strong>Disc 1:                   CD 1: 74:48</strong></p>
<li>1.   Che gelida manina /Your tiny hand.. (La Bohème) Jussi Björling   4.18</li>
<li>2.   Si, mi chiamano Mimì /They call me Mimi (La Bohème)<br />
      RenataTebaldi                                                                         5.32</li>
<li>3.   Mario, Mario, Mario (Tosca) Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano 12.14     </li>
<li>4.   O mio babbino caro /O My beloved Daddy)                               2.09<br />
      (Gianni Schicchi) Mirella Freni </li>
<li>5.   Scuoti quella fronda di cillegio / Flower duet  (Madama Butterfly)<br />
      Renata Tebaldi, Fiorenza Cossotto                                           5.19    </li>
<li>6.   Ch’ella mi creda (La Fanciulla del West)  Mario Del Monaco       2.03</li>
<li>7.   Perché tarda la luna…Grazia, grazia  (Turandot) Jussi Björling   8.34  </li>
<li>8.   Presto! In fila! No Pazzo son (Manon Lescaut) Jussi Björling      4.01</li>
<li>9.  Humming Chorus /Coro a bocca chiusa (Madama Butterfly)<br />
     Tullio Serafin, Chorus &#038; Orchestra Santa Cecilia, Rome              3.18</li>
<li>10. Con onor muore …  (Madama Butterfly) Renata Tebaldi              5.32</li>
<li>11. Quando m’en vo / Musetta’s Waltz song (La Bohème)<br />
      Gianna D’Angelo                                                                    2.42</li>
<li>12. Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut) Philharmonia Orch/ von Karajan     5.03    </li>
<li>13. Vissi d’arte (Tosca) Maria Callas                                              3.15</li>
<li>14. In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaut)  Renata Tebaldi            1.54</li>
<li>15. Signore, ascolta  (Turandot) Renata Tebaldi                              2.32    </li>
<li>16. Non piangere, Liù &#8230;. (Turandot)                                               5.05<br />
      Jussi Björling, Renata Tebaldi, Giorgio Tozzi                             </li>
<p>                                 <strong> CD 2  74:40</strong></p>
<li>1.   O Mimì, tu più non torni (La Bohème) Björling, Merrill                 4.23</li>
<li>2.   Un bel dì vedremo / One fine day) (Madama Butterfly) Tebaldi     4.51</li>
<li>3.   Recondita armonia (Tosca)  Carlo Bergonzi                               2.44</li>
<li>4.   In questa reggia…Gli enigma sono tre (Turandot)                       6.04
<p>      Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Björling  </li>
<li>5.   Hai ben raggione (Il Tabarro) Mario Del Monaco                          2.41</li>
<li>6.   Vieni le sera (Madama Butterfly)  Bergonzi, Tebaldi                    7.58</li>
<li>7.   Donna non vidi mai (Manon Lescaut) Jussi Björling                     2.22</li>
<li>8.   Tu che di gel  (Turandot)  Renata Tebaldi                                   2.54</li>
<li>9.   Dunque è proprio finite  (La Bohème)                                        5.22<br />
      Victoria de los Angeles, Jussi Björling                   </li>
<li>10. Chi il bel sogno di Doretta / Magda’s aria (La Rondine)<br />
      Leontyne Price                                                                       2.45</li>
<li>11. O dolci mani …  (Tosca)  Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano      4.54</li>
<li>12. Firenze è come un albero (Gianni Schicchi) Agostino Lazzari      2.40    </li>
<li>13. Ho una casa nel Honan &#8230;Gravi, enormi ed imponenti (Turandot)12.56<br />
 Mario Sereni, Piero De Palma, Tommaso Frascati, Rome Opera Chorus               </li>
<li>14. È lucevan le stelle / Stars were shining (Tosca)  Carlo Bergonzi  2.45</li>
<li>15. Senza mamma  (Suor Angelica)  Victoria de los Angeles           4.43</li>
<li>16. Nessun dorma / None shall sleep  (Turandot)  Jussi Björling        3.15</li>
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		<title>Puccini: Tosca (complete opera) PLUS Callas sings Puccini&#8217; bonus album (2CDs)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Puccini: Tosca (complete opera) PLUS
Callas sings Puccini' bonus album (2CDs)
</strong>

Maria Callas
Tito Gobbi
Giuseppe di Stefano
Orchestra La Scala Milan
Victor de Sabata
<strong>Bonus album</strong>
conducted Serafin/ Karjan

<strong>Catalogue Number:</strong> ALC 2030
<strong>Number of Discs:</strong> 2
<strong>Barcode:</strong> 5055354420306]]></description>
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“There has never been a finer recorded performance of Tosca than Callas’ first,  with Victor de Sabata conducting and Tito Gobbi as Scarpia.  Gobbi makes the unbelievably evil police chief into a genuinely three-dimensional character, and Di Stefano, as the hero Cavaradossi, was at his finest” © Penguin Guide<br />
</span></p>
<p><strong></strong></p>
<ul>
<strong>Disc 1:</strong><br />
AAD  73:10<br />
(1-14)  Act I<br />
(15-23)  Act II</p>
<p><strong>Disc II</strong><br />
AAD  77:28<br />
(1-2)  Act II (conclusion)<br />
(3-10)  Act III<br />
<strong>BONUS ALBUM TRACKS ‘Callas sings Puccini’</strong><br />
11.   In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaut)                      2.51<br />
12.   Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Manon Lescaut)               5.48<br />
13.   Si, mi chiamano Mimi (La Bohème)                             4.50<br />
14.   Donde lieta usci (La Bohème)                                      3.21<br />
15.   Un bel di vedremo (Madama Butterfly)**                   4.44<br />
16.   Senza mamma (Suor Angelica)                                    5.29<br />
17.   O mio babbino caro  (Gianni Schicchi)                       2.36<br />
18.   Signore, ascolta (Turandot)                                         2.29<br />
19.   In questa reggia (Turandot)                                         6.19<br />
20.   Tu che di gel sei cinta Turandot)                                 2.44
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		<title>La Fanciulla del West (Puccini) Girl of the Golden West</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>La Fanciulla del West (Puccini) Girl of the Golden West</strong>

Renata Tebaldi
Cornell MacNeil
Mario del Monaco
Giorgio Tozzi
Chorus &#038; Orchestra 
Santa Cecilia Academy
Rome/Franco Capuana 

<strong>Catalogue Number:</strong> ALC 2028
<strong>Number of Discs:</strong> 2
<strong>Date/Runtime:</strong> 132:08 'sound stage' stereo 1958
<strong>Barcode:</strong> 5055354420283]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">“Tebaldi gives one of her most warm-hearted and understanding performances on record.” (Penguin Guide) “a more powerful introduction to La Fanciulla than any stage performance could do. And if we had someone who really looked like Minnie, then would she be able to sing the part as eloquently as Tebaldi? I found that this performance &#8220;caught&#8221; me completely &#8211; unusually detailed and specific scene-descriptions in the score, plus a brilliantly managed stereo recording, plus, of course&#8211;and this is the most important-music of extraordinary imaginative power and eloquence. The listener feels that he/she is really in the Polka Bar, or in Minnie&#8217;s bed-sitter, or on the edge of the Californian forest. This self-identification is not to be recommended as an approach to all operas, but it is the response Puccini aimed to secure; and it is perfectly evoked in this recording.” (Gramophone)</span></p>
<p><strong></strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>CD1 [61:13]</strong> </li>
<li><strong>ACT 1</strong></li>
<li>[1]   Introduction &#8230; Hello! Hello!  3:26</li>
<li>[2]   Hello Nick!   03:38</li>
<li>[3]   Hooray! Hooray! &#8230; Che faranno i vecchi miei   6:41</li>
<li>[4]   Va tutto? 03:45</li>
<li>[5]   A tutti buona notte! &#8230; Hello Minnie!   05:03</li>
<li>[6]   Dove eravamo?  03:50</li>
<li>[7]   La posta!  02:49</li>
<li>[8]   Ti voglio bene, Minnie &#8230; Minnie, dalla mia casa son partito  4:18</li>
<li>[9]   Laggiù nel Soledad  02:28</li>
<li>[10] Chi c&#8217;è per farmi i ricci?  05:20</li>
<li>[11] La la la&#8230;..   04:05</li>
<li>[12] Mister Johnson, siete rimasto indietro  04:38:</li>
<li>[13] Non so, non so &#8230; Quello che tacete me  05:39:</li>
<li>[14] Ah, non temete, nessuno ardirà!  05:26</li>
<li><strong>CD2 [70:55]</strong> </li>
<li><strong>ACT 2</strong></li>
<li>[1]   Il mio bimbo è grande e piccino &#8230; Voglio vestirmi tutta  6:08</li>
<li>
[2]   Grazie&#8230;..Amici? &#8230; Oh, se sapeste  06:50</li>
<li>[3]   Ugh&#8230;..Neve!  07:22:</li>
<li>[4]   Hello!  04:44</li>
<li>[5]   Vieni fuori!  05:00</li>
<li>[6]   L&#8217;han ferito&#8230;..Che importa?  02:32</li>
<li>[7]   Che c&#8217;è di nuovo, Jack?  05:46</li>
<li>[8]   Una partita a poker!  05:47</li>
<li><strong>ACT 3</strong></li>
<li>[9]   Ve lo giuro, sceriffo  04:23</li>
<li>[10] Ah! Ah! Ah! Urrah, ragazzi!  04:59</li>
<li>[11] Buona fortuna, o mio bel gentiluomo!  04:27</li>
<li>[12] Ch&#8217;ella mi creda libero e lontano  02:02</li>
<li>
[13] Ah-ah-ah! È Minnie! &#8230; Non vi fu mai chi disse “Basta!” 4:27</li>
<li>
[14] E anche tu lo vorrai &#8230; Le tue parole sono di Dio  6:22</li>
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		<title>Puccini: Il Trittico  &#8211; on only 2 discs</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Puccini: Il Trittico  - on only 2 discs</strong>

Renata Tebaldi; Fernando Corena; Robert Merrill;
Mario del Monaco; Giulietta Simionato
Chorus &#038; Orchestra, 
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino  
Lamberto Gardelli

<strong>Catalogue Number:</strong> ALC 2023
<strong>Number of Discs:</strong> 2
<strong>Date/Runtime:</strong> Time, 154:17 ADD stereo, 1962]]></description>
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“Renata Tebaldi brings off a tour de force in her assumption of all three soprano roles&#8230;. She gives us some beautiful singing in the passage about the charms of Paris (and) excellent in Suor Angelica, singing with touching simplicity in the scene with the terrible Aunt (superb from Simionato)&#8230;. Which reminds me to add a word of praise for the lesser nuns and novices that make all the earlier part of Suor Angelica so uncommonly enjoyable&#8230; In Gianni Schicchi small parts are again first rate” (Gramophone)<br />
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<ul>
<strong>Il Tabarro</strong></p>
<li>O Michele? Michele?                                                                       7:34</li>
<li>Dunque, che cosa credi?  3:37</li>
<li>O eterni innamorati, buona sera!  3:25</li>
<li>To! guarda la mia vecchia!   1:20</li>
<li>Hai ben ragione  2:40</li>
<li>Ho sognata una casetta  6.15</li>
<li>O Luigi! Luigi!    2.52</li>
<li>Dimmi: perchè gli hai chiesto   4.27</li>
<li>Come è difficile esser felici!    9.37</li>
<li>Nulla! .. Silenzio!   3.05</li>
<li>T&#8217;ho colto!   1.58</li>
<li>Avevo ben ragione   2.04</li>
<li>Scorri, fiume eterno! (Aria alternativa di Michele)  3.42</li>
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<ul>
<strong>Suor Angelica</strong></p>
<li>Ave Maria, piena di gratia   3.12</li>
<li>Sorelle in umiltà, mancaste alla quindena  5.38</li>
<li>O sorelle in pio lavoro   3.26</li>
<li>Ho un desiderio anch&#8217;io!  3.25</li>
<li>Laudata Maria! E sempre sia!  2.43</li>
<li>Suor Angelica! Madre, Madre, parlate!   5.25</li>
<li>Il principe Gualtiero vostro padre   1.56</li>
<li>Nel silenzio di quei raccoglimenti    5.33</li>
<li>Tutto ho offerto all Vergine, sì, tutto     4.32</li>
<li>Senza mamma, o bimbo     4.32</li>
<li>Sorella, o buona sorella    2.22</li>
<li>La grazie è dicesa dal cielo    4.53</li>
<li>Ah, son dannata!    3.43</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<strong>Gianni Schicchi</strong></p>
<li>Povero Buoso!           3.27</li>
<li>O Simone?                3.33</li>
<li>Ai miei cugioni Zita e Simone   2.28</li>
<li>Dunque era vero!             2.12</li>
<li>E non c&#8217;è nessum mezzo&#8230;              2.10</li>
<li>Firenze è come un albero fiorito              2.38</li>
<li>Quale aspetto sgomento e desolato!    3.37</li>
<li>Oh! mio babbino caro              2.04</li>
<li>Datemi il testamento!            1.48</li>
<li>Nessuno sa che Buoso ha reso il fiato?              3.12</li>
<li>Era uguale la voce?                    5.21</li>
<li>Ecco la cappellina!                 2.53</li>
<li>Prima un avvertimento!                2.36</li>
<li>Ecco il notaro!                8.50</li>
<li>Ladro, ladro, furfante!               1.35  </li>
<li>Lauretta mia, staremo sempre qui  2.09</li>
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		<title>La Bohème, Puccini</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>La Bohème, Puccini</strong>

<strong>Complete Opera plus 5 bonus Pucini arias with Renata Tebaldi</strong>

Renata Tebaldi; Gianna d’Angelo; Carlo Bergonzi;
Ettore Bastianini; Cesare Siepi;
Chorus &#38; Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome
conducted by Tullio Serafin

<strong>Catalogue Number:</strong> ALC 2017
<strong>Number of Discs:</strong> 1
<strong>Date/Runtime:</strong> ADD stereo, 128:19, 1959]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">‘most collectors will want a set with Tebaldi &amp; Bergonzi at the height of their powers” (Penguin Guide) ‘The wonderful bustle of the Café Momus scene can never have been so vividly captured on disc…Tebaldi sings with great beauty of voice … Bergonzi sings with sincerity and style…d’Angelo with taste and charm’ (Opera)</span></p>
<ul>
<li>Disc 1: Acts I &amp; II</li>
<li>Disc 2: Acts III &amp; IV</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>BONUS TRACKS</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>16. In quelle trine morbide* (Manon Lescaut) 1.55</li>
<li>17. Sola, perduta, abbandonata* 4.07</li>
<li>(Manon Lescaut:Puccini:Colautti)</li>
<li>18. Signore escolta** (Turandot:Puccini, compl.Alfano) 2.39</li>
<li>19. Tu che di gel sei cinta**(Turandot) with Mario Del Monaco 2.55</li>
<li>20. Vissi’d’arte* (Tosca) 3.16</li>
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		<title>Puccini: Madama Butterfly</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Puccini: Madama Butterfly
complete opera in 2 acts (Puccini: Giacosa &#38; Illica) </strong>

Renata Tebaldi (Cio-Cio-San);
Carlo Bergonzi (Pinkerton);
Enzo Sordello (Sharpless)

Chorus and Orchestra of
Accademia St. Cecilia, Rome
conducted by Tullio Serafin

<strong>Catalogue Number:</strong> ALC 2015
<strong>Number of Discs:</strong> 2
<strong>Date/Runtime:</strong> 144m stereo 1960]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">“sensitive and beautifully-paced reading finds Tebaldi at her most radiant. … her singing is consistently rich and beautiful, breathtakingly so in passages like the one where she tells Pinkerton she has changed her religion.” (Penguin Guide 3 stars)</span></p>
<p><strong><br />
CD1 [71:57]</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Act 1</li>
<li>Act 2 (part 1)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>CD2 [72:00]</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Act 2 conclusion</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Renata Tebaldi Sings Puccini and Verdi Favourites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA['
<strong>Renata Tebaldi Sings Puccini and Verdi Favourites</strong>

Renata Tebaldi / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli / Alberto Erede / Tulio Serafin / Herbert von Karajan

<strong>Catalog Number:</strong> ALC 1133
<strong>Number of Discs:</strong> 1]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Essential arias sung by a legendary soprano at the peak of her interpretive powers</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;In all the major Puccini parts, and most of the Verdian, she recorded in the studio for Decca, that gratifying centrality of voice and interpretation that makes her still beloved by many admirers can be heard. Security, broad phrasing, exciting tone were of the essence in her art. She was undoubtedly a grande dame of the lyric theatre in a way now inexorably of the past. So much the worse for the present.&#8221;<br />
– Alan Blyth, The Guardian (obituary for Tebaldi), 20 December 2004</span></p>
<p>Renata Tebaldi was one of the supreme sopranos of the recording era whose voice was captured in all of its glory at the dawn of the LP era. Alto brings together essential arias by Puccini and Verdi taken from Tebaldi&#8217;s great Decca recordings — legendary sessions that partnered her with such luminaries as Carlo Bergonzi, Herbert von Karajan, and Mario del Monaco.</p>
<p><strong>Giuseppe Verdi</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>1 La Forza del Destino – Son giunti… Madrre pietosa vergine 6:22</li>
<li>2 La Forza del Destino – Pace, pace, mio Dio 5:52</li>
<li>3 Aida – Ritorna vincitor 7:13</li>
<li>4 Aida – O patria mia 5:21</li>
<li>5 Il Trovatore – D&#8217;amor sull&#8217;ali rosee 3:36</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Giacomo Puccini</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>6 Manon Lescaut – In quelle trine morbide 1:55</li>
<li>7 Manon Lescaut – Sola, perduta, abbandonata 4:08</li>
<li>8 La Bohème – Si, mi chiamano Mimi 5:30</li>
<li>9 La Bohème – Donde lieta usci 3:28</li>
<li>10 Turandot – Signore ascolta 2:39</li>
<li>11 Turandot – Tu che di gel sei cinta 2:55</li>
<li>12 Madama Butterfly – Un bel di vedremo 4:49</li>
<li>13 Madama Butterfly – Che tua madre 4:55</li>
<li>14 Madama Butterfly – Con onor muore…Tu,tu? Piccolo iddio 5:12</li>
<li>15 Tosca – Vissi&#8217;d&#8217;arte 3:16</li>
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