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Bruno Bartoletti, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2007/1967)

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Bruno Bartoletti, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2007/1967)

Bruno Bartoletti, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2007/1967)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 130 min | 4,34 Gb (DVD5)
Classical | VAI | Sub: Italiano, Deutsch, English, Espanol, Francais

Italian opera in Japan got started in the mid-1950s. The series title was Lirica Italiana, and back in the early days the international stars who appeared would have had to make at least six stops when flying out from Europe. Despite this exhausting journey the productions, mounted with the help of Japanese orchestras and choruses, were often legendary, and they are now being issued on DVD by the admirable American company Video Artists International.

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti - Puccini: La Boheme (2005/1977)

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James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti - Puccini: La Boheme (2005/1977)

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti - Puccini: La Bohème (2005/1977)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.71 Gb (DVD9) | 123 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

This was the very first “Live from the Met” telecast, and its availability on DVD will no doubt give rise to intense nostalgia, as it did for me. (How young everyone looked!) There’s an authentic sense of occasion to this performance. It’s one thing to play to a packed house, another to play to a nationwide television audience, and with so many eyes upon them, everyone involved in this Bohème rose to the occasion. It’s by no means a perfect evening—what performance ever is?—but it’s a treasurable one for anyone who cares about this opera, the Met, or the principal singers.

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2006/1980)

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James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2006/1980)

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2006/1980)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.39 Gb (DVD9) | 132 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by James Levine and his top-flight cast. Plácido Domingo is Des Grieux, the handsome, headstrong young aristocrat who falls head over heels for the enticing, impetuous Manon Lescaut (Renata Scotto). Manon returns his love, but her obsession with luxury ruins them both. Gian Carlo Menotti’s opulent production, with sets and costumes by Desmond Heeley, superbly captures the colorful world of 18th century France.

Art of Renata Scotto (2023)

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Art of Renata Scotto (2023)

Art of Renata Scotto (2023)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 1,27 Gb | Total time: 04:40:48 | Covers included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Known for her dramatic singing style, Renata Scotto excelled in the Italian repertoire, including Bellini's Norma and Puccini's Madame Butterfly. She performed in more than 45 operas all over the world and worked with such singers as Renata Tebaldi and Mario Del Monaco.

Renata Scotto - Legendary performances: 7 complete operas [14CDs] (2007)

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Renata Scotto - Legendary performances: 7 complete operas [14CDs] (2007)

Renata Scotto - Legendary performances: 7 complete operas [14CDs] (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3.55 Gb | Total time: 14:25:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bravissimo | # BRV 9910 | Recorded: 1966, 1967, 1970, 1973

Renata Scotto (born 24 February 1934) is an Italian soprano and opera director.
Recognized for her sense of style, musicality and as a remarkable singer-actress, Scotto is considered one of the preeminent singers of her generation, specializing in the bel canto repertoire with excursions into the verismo and Verdi repertoires.
Since retiring from the stage as a singer in 2002, she has turned successfully to directing opera as well as teaching in Italy and America, along with academic posts at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Juilliard School in New York.

Antonino Votto, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Renata Scotto - Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata (2007)

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Antonino Votto, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Renata Scotto - Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata (2007)

Antonino Votto, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Renata Scotto - Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 590 Mb | Total time: 66:40+51:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 5665 | Recorded: 1963

Deutsche Grammophon's reissue of its 1963 recording of La Traviata should be an essential part of the library of anyone who loves the opera because Renata Scotto's Violetta is so beautifully sung and dramatically realized. Scotto was at the beginning of her career, not yet 30, when she made this recording, three years before her acclaimed Madama Butterfly with John Barbirolli. Her voice is wonderfully fresh, with a youthful bloom that makes Violetta's plight especially poignant. She is in complete control; her tone is pure, full, and sweet; and her coloratura is agile, but it's her exceptional ability to act with her voice that makes her Violetta so memorable. This was the role in which she had made her debut when she was 18, and she inhabits it fully. She's entirely believable and inexorably draws the listener into the tragedy that Violetta's life becomes. It's a portrayal so vivid that not all of the rest of the cast can avoid being dwarfed by it.

Rafael Kubelik, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala - Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (1993)

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Rafael Kubelik, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala - Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (1993)

Rafael Kubelik, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi - Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 583 Mb | Total time: 58:16+64:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 437 704-2 | Recorded: 1964

Renata Scotto shows an amazing flexibility and control. Her Caro nome is one to be heard many times. She reaches a high D and decrescendo's to an incredible ppp. I felt the aria drug a little in tempo, but the gorgeous sound more than made up for it. As Rigoletto, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has the vocal power demanded by the score. Too often he sounded as if he was delivering a recital of Leider. A smooth velvet sound was his mark throughout. In his duets with Gilda, this payed off handsomely. Even in his dealings with the courtiers after Gilda's abduction he showed us a rarely seen Dietrich blustery side.

James Levine, Metropoliten Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo - Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (2007/1984)

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James Levine, Metropoliten Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo - Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (2007/1984)

James Levine, Metropoliten Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo - Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (2007/1984)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 7.76 Gb (DVD9) | 150 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

The Met's first production in more than 60 years is "treated with a keen appreciation for the special requirements of verismo and a practically vanished performing tradition. Scotto has found her ideal role…a great performance… Domingo sang glamorously… Levine's affectionate concern for the music told in every measure… The massive sets by Ezio Frigerio serve the work exquisitely … Piero Faggioni’s graceful direction strikes a perfect balance” (New York Magazine)

Henry Lewis, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Marilyn Horne - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète (2016)

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Henry Lewis, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Marilyn Horne - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète (2016)

Henry Lewis, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Marilyn Horne - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 766 Mb | Total time: 63:34+73:07+64:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88875194782 | Recorded: 1976

The role of Fides calls for a Brünnhilde range with an Amneris-type voice, requiring extraordinary vocal flexibility and dramatic punch – Marilyn Horne has them all, and she brings out the pathos of the part without sentimentalizing it.

James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Vasile Moldoveanu, Renata Scotto - Verdi: Don Carlo (2010/1980)

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James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Vasile Moldoveanu, Renata Scotto - Verdi: Don Carlo (2010/1980)

James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Vasile Moldoveanu, Renata Scotto - Verdi: Don Carlo (2010/1980)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 6.19 Gb+4.08 Gb (DVD9+DVD5) | 202 min
Classical | The Metropolitan Opera | Sub: English

James Levine presides brilliantly over the vast musical forces required for Verdi's epic portrait of the Spain of Phillip II, a world in which an individual's choices change the course of nations. Originally telecast in 1980, this famous production frames a superb union of symphonic grandeur and extraordinary vocal artistry within a beautiful setting that captured all the magnificence - and all the terror - of a tumultuous epoch.

Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (2004/1967)

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Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (2004/1967)

Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (2004/1967)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | Dolby AC3, 2 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 6.96 Gb (DVD9) | 130 min
Classical | Hardy Classic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Espanol

A dream cast for a wonderful opera. Renata Scotto and Carlo Bergonzi, whose partnership in the EMI recording of Madama Butterfly made it the version of choice, can be seen as well as heard in Donizetti's delicious opera buffa. The cast is filled out with superb singing actors, including Carlo Cava, Giuseppe Taddei and others. A major discovery and a feast for opera fans.

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Jon Vickers, Renata Scotto - Verdi: Otello (2009/1978)

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James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Jon Vickers, Renata Scotto - Verdi: Otello (2009/1978)

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Jon Vickers, Renata Scotto - Verdi: Otello (2009/1978)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.80 Gb (DVD9) | 144 min
Classical | Sony Classical | Sub.: English

Jon Vickers one of the great Othellos of the 20th century brings his remarkable vocal power and dramatic intensity to the role, with Renata Scotto as Desdemona at the height of her powers and Cornell MacNeil's manacing Iago in one of the baritone's greatest roles. James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus in one of the most thrilling performances of the decade.

James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Teresa Stratas, Jose Carreras - Puccini: La Boheme (2009/1982)

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James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Teresa Stratas, Jose Carreras - Puccini: La Boheme (2009/1982)

James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Teresa Stratas, José Carreras - Puccini: La Bohème (2009/1982)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7,64 Gb (DVD9) | 125 min
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Deutsche Grammophon is proud to present Franco Zeffirelli's iconic staging of La Bohème as recorded liveat the Metropolitan Opera on January 16, 1982, available once again on DVD. This timeless production continues to thrill audiences almost every season since it was first introduced in 1981, and this performance captures the production at the very beginning with the original cast. Teresa Stratas, renowned for her acting abilities, captures the essence of Mimì–her fragility, her resolve, her passion. Stratas is partnered by José Carreras as Rodolfo, the poet and love of her dreams. The cast is rounded out with a lively Renata Scotto (who was filmed as Mimì in an earlier MET production, also available on DVD from Deutsche Grammophon) and sonorous Richard Stilwell.

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo - Verdi: Luisa Miller (2006/1979)

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James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo - Verdi: Luisa Miller (2006/1979)

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo - Verdi: Luisa Miller (2006/1979)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 5 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.64 Gb (DVD9) | 148 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

“Levine's version of Luisa Miller consistently demonstrates his Verdian mastery, and not just in the best-known masterpieces…Not only in Levine's conducting but also in the sets and costumes of Nathanial Merrill's production the attractive rustic element of the piece is effectively brought out.” (Penguin Guide)

Joan Sutherland, Nicola Rescigno, New York Opera Society Orchestra - Bellini: La Sonnambula (2000)

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Joan Sutherland, Nicola Rescigno, New York Opera Society Orchestra - Bellini: La Sonnambula (2000)

Joan Sutherland, Nicola Rescigno, New York Opera Society Orchestra - Bellini: La Sonnambula (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 73:33+75:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gala | GL 100.545 | Recorded: 1961

There's little doubt that to have heard Sutherland in 1961 must have been really something. It was the year she found New York, and New York found her. This recording, along with the live recording of her early 1961 New York debut in Beatrice di Tenda are legendary moments. Both are concert performances, conducted by Nicola Rescigno.
This Sonnambula was in Carnegie Hall in December and just after her Met debut. The voice is astonishing. The 'Ah, non guinge' is sung with almost wild abandon, absolutely thrilling, and was described the next day by Harold Schonberg as "flawlessly performed pyrotechnics".