Turandot discography
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This is a list of audio and video recordings (discography) of Giacomo Puccini's 1926 Italian opera Turandot. The first recorded extracts were made in Dresden in 1926 with Anne Roselle and Paul Schöffler and Fritz Busch conducting the Dresden Staatskapelle.[1]
| Year | Cast (Turandot, Calaf, Liù, Timur) |
Conductor, Opera house and orchestra |
Label[2] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Gina Cigna, Francesco Merli, Magda Olivero, Luciano Neroni |
Franco Ghione RAI National Symphony Orchestra and chorus |
CD: Naxos Cat: 8.110193-94 |
| 1955 | Inge Borkh, Mario Del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Nicola Zaccaria |
Alberto Erede Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus |
CD: Decca Cat: 452964 |
| 1957 | Maria Callas, Eugenio Fernandi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicola Zaccaria |
Tullio Serafin Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus |
CD: EMI Classics Cat: 56307 |
| 1958 | Birgit Nilsson, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Rosanna Carteri, Giuseppe Modesti |
Antonio Votto Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus |
CD: ALLEGRO Cat: OPD-1256 |
| 1959 | Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Björling, Renata Tebaldi, Giorgio Tozzi |
Erich Leinsdorf Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus |
CD: RCA Victor Cat: 09026626872 |
| 1961 | Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Anna Moffo, Bonaldo Giaiotti |
Leopold Stokowski Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (1961 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording) |
CD: Cantus Cat: CACD 5.01617 (released 2012) |
| 1964 | Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Galina Vishnevskaya, Nicola Zaccaria |
Gianandrea Gavazzeni Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus |
CD: The Opera Lovers Cat: TURA 196402 (1 CD) |
| 1965 | Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Renata Scotto, Bonaldo Giaiotti |
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus |
CD: EMI Classics Cat: 077776932729 |
| 1970 | George Mircea, Maria Slatinaru, Octav Enigarescu, Valentin Teodorian, |
Carol Litvin Romanian Radio Symphony orchestra Romanian Radio/TV chorus |
CD: Vox Box Cat: 5160 |
| 1972 | Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Ghiaurov |
Zubin Mehta London Philharmonic Orchestra John Alldis Choir Wandsworth School Boys Choir |
CD: Decca Cat: 414274 |
| 1977 | Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Mirella Freni, Paul Plishka |
Alain Lombard Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg Rhine Opera chorus Maitrise de la Cathedrale de Strasbourg |
CD: EMI Classics Cat: 65293 |
| 1977 | Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Leona Mitchell, Giorgio Tozzi |
Riccardo Chailly San Francisco Opera orchestra and chorus |
CD: Gala Cat: GL 100.534 |
| 1981 | Katia Ricciarelli, Plácido Domingo, Barbara Hendricks, Ruggero Raimondi |
Herbert von Karajan Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus Vienna Sängerknaben |
CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 423855 |
| 1984 | Éva Marton, José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Kurt Rydl |
Lorin Maazel Vienna Philharmonic Vienna State Opera chorus |
CD: CBS Masterworks Cat: M2J39160 |
| 1989 | Ghena Dimitrova, Nicola Martinucci, Cecilia Gasdia, Roberto Scandiuzzi |
Daniel Oren Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale dell'Opera di Genova |
CD: Nuova Era Cat: 6786/87 |
| 2001 | Giovanna Casolla, Lando Bartolini, Masako Deguci, Felipe Bou |
Alexander Rahbari Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra Choral Society of Bilbao |
CD: Naxos 8.660089-90 |
| 2022 | Sondra Radvanovsky Jonas Kaufmann Ermonela Jaho Michele Pertusi |
Antonio Pappano Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and chorus (Uses the original ending by Franco Alfano.[3]) |
CD: Warner Classics |
