Greatest Operas

Greatest Operas

This new Bravissimo series features some of the greatest<br>live performances, from some of the world s greatest<br>operas. As always, the Bravissimo Opera Library<br>brings the finest singers of the 20th century to your<br>living room in deluxe super-budget box sets!</p><br></p><br>MARIA STUARDA<br>Maria Stuarda: Montserrat Caballé<br>Elisabetta: Shirley Verrett<br>Roberto, Earl of Leicester: Ottavio Garaventa<br>Lord Talbot: Raffaele Ariè<br>Lord Cecil: Giulio Fioravanti<br>Anna: Nella Verri<br>Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan<br>Carlo Felice Cillario: conductor<br>Live performance, Milan, 1971</p><br><br>GEMMA DI VERGY<br>Gemma: Montserrat Caballé<br>Count di Vergy: Renato Bruson<br>Tamas: Giorgio Casellato Lamberti<br>Ida di Greville: Bianca Maria Casoni<br>Guido: Mario Rinaudo<br>Rolando: Mario Machì<br>Chorus & Orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo<br>Armando Gatto: conductor<br>Live performance, Naples, December 12, 1975</p><br><br>BELISARIO<br>Belisario: Giuseppe Taddei<br>Antonina: Leyla Gencer<br>Giustiniano: Nicola Zaccaria<br>Irene: Mirna Pecile<br>Alamiro/Alessi: Umberto Grilli<br>Eutropio: Bruno Sebastian<br>Eudora: Rina Pallini<br>Eusebio: Giovanni Antonini<br>Ottario: Augusto Veronese<br>A Centurion: Alberto Carusi<br>Teatro La Fenice Orchestra & Chorus<br>Gianandrea Gavazzeni: conductor<br>Live performance, Venice, May 14, 1969</p><br><br>L ELISIR D AMORE<br>Nemorino: Carlo Bergonzi<br>Adina: Renata Scotto<br>Dulcamara: Carlo Cava<br>Belcore: Giuseppe Taddei<br>Giannetta: Renza Jotti<br>Orchestra & Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino<br>Gianandrea Gavazzeni: conductor<br>Live performance, Florence, Italy, 1967</p><br><br>LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR<br>Lucia di Lammermoor: Maria Callas<br>Edgardo di Ravenswood: Giuseppe di Stefano<br>Lord Enrico Ashton: Rolando Panerai<br>Raimondo Bidebent: Nicola Zaccaria<br>Lord Arturo Bucklaw: Giuseppe Zampieri<br>Normanno: Mario Carlin<br>Alisa: Luisa Villa<br>RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin & La Scala Chorus<br>Herbert von Karajan: conductor<br>Live performance, Berlin, September 29, 1955</p>