La traviata discography

The following is a partial discography of the many audio[1] and video[2] recordings of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La traviata. Based on the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, La traviata has been a staple of the operatic repertoire since its premiere on 6 March 1853 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.[3]

Audio recordings

Year Cast
(Violetta,
Alfredo,
Germont)		 Conductor,
opera house and orchestra		 Label[4]
1912 Jane Morlet,
Maurizio Troselli,
Henri Albers		 Emile Archainbaud,
Opéra-Comique orchestra and chorus, Paris??		 Marston
Cat: MR 52043
1915 Margherita Bevignani,
Franco Tuminello,
Ernesto Badini		 Carlo Sabajno,
La Scala orchestra and chorus, Milan		 Mike Richter
Cat: Audio Encyclopedia 301
1928 Mercedes Capsir,
Lionello Cecil,
Carlo Galeffi		 Lorenzo Molajoli,
La Scala orchestra and chorus, Milan		 Naxos Records
Cat: No. 8.110110-11
1930 Anna Rosza,
Alessandro Ziliani,
Luigi Borgonovi		 Carlo Sabajno,
La Scala orchestra and chorus, Milan		 Opera d'Oro
Cat: OPD 9002
1946 Licia Albanese,
Jan Peerce,
Robert Merrill		 Arturo Toscanini,
NBC Symphony Orchestra		 RCA Victor
Cat: 60303
1946 Adriana Guerrini,
Luigi Infantino,
Paolo Silveri		 Vincenzo Bellezza,
Rome Opera orchestra and chorus		 Grammofono 2000
Cat: AB 78700/01[5]
1953 Maria Callas,
Francesco Albanese,
Ugo Savarese		 Gabriele Santini,
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin, Coro Cetra		 Warner Classics
Cat: 698772;
Andromeda
Cat: ANR 2504/05
1955 Licia Albanese,
Giacinto Prandelli,
Ettore Bastianini		 Alberto Erede,
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
(Recording of a performance at Met, 1 January 1955)		 Walhall
Cat: WLCD0284
1955 Maria Callas,
Giuseppe Di Stefano,
Ettore Bastianini		 Carlo Maria Giulini,
La Scala orchestra and chorus, Milan
(Recording of a performance at La Scala, 28 May 1955)		 EMI Classics
Cat: 66450
1955 Antonietta Stella,
Giuseppe Di Stefano,
Tito Gobbi		 Tullio Serafin,
La Scala orchestra and chorus, Milan		 Naxos Historical
Cat: 8.111272-3
1956 Rosanna Carteri,
Cesare Valletti,
Leonard Warren		 Pierre Monteux,
Rome Opera orchestra and chorus		 RCA Victor LM-6040[6]
1958 Maria Callas,
Alfredo Kraus,
Mario Sereni		 Franco Ghione,
San Carlos National Theatre orchestra and chorus, Lisbon
(Recording of a performance in Lisbon, 27 March)		 EMI Classics
Cat: 56330
1960 Anna Moffo,
Richard Tucker,
Robert Merrill		 Fernando Previtali,
Rome Opera orchestra and chorus		 RCA Victor
Cat: 68885
1962 Joan Sutherland,
Carlo Bergonzi,
Robert Merrill		 John Pritchard,
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra and chorus		 Decca
Cat: 717302
1962 Renata Scotto,
Gianni Raimondi,
Ettore Bastianini		 Antonino Votto,
La Scala orchestra and chorus		 Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 894002
1967 Montserrat Caballé,
Carlo Bergonzi,
Sherrill Milnes		 Georges Prêtre,
RCA Italiana Opera orchestra and chorus		 RCA Victor
Cat: 286180
1968 Virginia Zeani,
Ion Buzea,
Nicolae Herlea		 Jean Bobescu
Romanian National Opera, Bucharest Orchestra and Chorus		 World of the Opera
Cat: 5251
1968 Pilar Lorengar,
Giacomo Aragall,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau		 Lorin Maazel,
Orchester und Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin		 Decca
Cat: 443000
1971 Beverly Sills,
Nicolai Gedda,
Rolando Panerai		 Aldo Ceccato,
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir		 EMI Classics
Cat: 69827
1973 Mirella Freni,
Franco Bonisolli,
Sesto Bruscantini		 Lamberto Gardelli,
Chor Staatsoper Berin, Staatskapelle Berlin		 ARTS
Cat: 43031-2
1976 Ileana Cotrubaş,
Plácido Domingo,
Sherrill Milnes		 Carlos Kleiber
Bavarian State Opera orchestra and chorus		 Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 415132
1979 Joan Sutherland,
Luciano Pavarotti,
Matteo Manuguerra		 Richard Bonynge,
National Philharmonic Orchestra and London Opera Chorus		 Decca
Cat: 430491
1980 Renata Scotto,
Alfredo Kraus,
Renato Bruson		 Riccardo Muti,
Philharmonia Orchestra and the Ambrosian Opera Chorus		 EMI Classics
Cat: 47538
1991 Cheryl Studer,
Luciano Pavarotti,
Juan Pons		 James Levine,
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus		 Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 435797
1992Kiri Te Kanawa,
Alfredo Kraus,
Dmitri Hvorostovsky		Zubin Mehta,
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra and chorus		 Philips
Cat: 438238
1994 Angela Gheorghiu,
Frank Lopardo,
Leo Nucci		 Georg Solti,
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden orchestra and chorus		 Decca
Cat: 448119
2004 Renée Fleming,
Ramón Vargas,
Dmitri Hvorostovsky		 Valery Gergiev,
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus		 The Metropolitan Opera
Available on Rhapsody
2005 Anna Netrebko,
Rolando Villazón,
Thomas Hampson		 Carlo Rizzi,
Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus
(Live recording)		 Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 52902
2012Emma Matthews,
Gianluca Terranova,
Jonathan Summers		 Brian Castles-Onion,
Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Australia
 EPC Distribution
Cat:OPOZ56031CD

Video recordings

Year Cast
(Violetta,
Alfredo,
Germont)		 Conductor,
opera house and orchestra		 Label[4]
1968Anna Moffo,
Franco Bonisolli,
Gino Bechi		Giuseppe Patanè,
Rome Opera orchestra and chorus
(Film directed by Mario Lanfranchi)		DVD: Video Artists International,
Cat: VAI 4223
1983 Teresa Stratas,
Plácido Domingo,
Cornell MacNeil		 James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
(La traviata (1983 film) directed by Franco Zeffirelli)		DVD: Universal Studios,
Cat: 0 2519-20326-2 2
1998Marie McLaughlin,
Walter MacNeil,
Brent Ellis		 Bernard Haitink,
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus 		DVD:Arthaus Musik
Cat:100112
1994Angela Gheorghiu,
Frank Lopardo,
Leo Nucci		Georg Solti,
Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus
(Live recording, December)		DVD: Decca
Cat: 071 431-9
2004Patrizia Ciofi,
Roberto Saccà,
Dmitri Hvorostovsky		Lorin Maazel,
Orchestra and chorus of La Fenice
(Live recording from La Fenice on 18 November)		DVD: TDK
Cat: DV-OPLTLF
2005Norah Ansellem
José Bros
Renato Bruson		Jesús López-Cobos
Madrid Symphony Orchestra and chorus
(Live recording from the Teatro Real, March)		DVD: Opus Arte
Cat: OA 934D
2005 Anna Netrebko,
Rolando Villazón,
Thomas Hampson		 Carlo Rizzi,
Salzburg Festival, Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus
(Video recording of a performance at the Salzburg Festival)		 DVD: Deutsche Grammophon,
Cat: 073 4189
Blu-ray: 073 4525
2005 Eva Mei,
Piotr Beczala,
Thomas Hampson		 Franz Welser-Möst
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House
(Live recording of performance from Zurich Opera House)		 DVD:Arthaus Musik
Cat:101247
2006 Renée Fleming,
Rolando Villazón,
Renato Bruson		 James Conlon,
Orchestra and Chorus of the Los Angeles Opera
(Video recording of a performance in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 17 September)		 DVD: Decca,
Cat: B000W7Y6BA
2007Angela Gheorghiu,
Ramón Vargas,
Roberto Frontali		 Lorin Maazel
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala
(Video recording of a live performance from La Scala)		 DVD:Arthaus Musik
Cat:101343
2008Kristiane Kaiser,
Jean-François Borras,
Georg Tichy		 Ernst Märzendorfer
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (Video recording of a live performance at the Römersteinbruch St. Margarethen, 11 July 2008)		 DVD:EuroArts
Cat:2057218
2009Cinzia Forte
Saimir Pirgu
Giovanni Meoni		Paolo Arrivabeni
Opéra Royal de Wallonie Orchestra and Chorus
(Live recording from the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, March)		DVD: Dynamic,
Cat: 33642
2009Renée Fleming,
Joseph Calleja,
Thomas Hampson		 Antonio Pappano
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera
(Video recording of a live performance from Covent Garden)		 DVD:Arthaus Musik
Cat:OABD7076D
2011 Natalie Dessay,
Charles Castronovo,
Ludovic Tezier		 Louis Langrée,
London Symphony Orchestra and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
(Live recording from Aix-en-Provence Festival, July)		 DVD: Virgin Classics
DVD: 5099973079897
2011Marlis Petersen,
Giuseppe Varano,
James Rutherford		 Tecwyn Evans
Graz Opera Chorus, Graz Philharmonic Orchestra
(Video recording of a live performance at the Graz Opera)		 DVD:Arthaus Musik
Cat:108036

References

Notes

  1. ↑ A much more comprehensive discography can be found at operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  2. ↑ For many other video recordings of La traviata, see the listings at Amazon.com and at IMDb.com.
  3. ↑ Cunningham, Lawrence S. and Reich, John J., Culture & Values, Volume II: A Survey of the Humanities, Cengage Learning, 2009, p. 437. ISBN 0-495-56926-7
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Recordings from operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  5. ↑ Previously issued in LP format as Columbia SL-103
  6. ↑ Hunt J. A Gallic Trio - Charles Munch, Paul Paray, Pierre Monteux. John Hunt, 2003, 2009, p213

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