La favorita Discography

Catalogue numbers for LP format unless specified as CD

1950 Cetra LO 2
Orch. Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Renato Cellini (cond.)
Giulietta Simionato (Leonora), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Fernando), Enzo Mascherini (Alfonso XI), Cesare Siepi (Baldassarre)
reedited as:

  • Standing Room Only SRO 816-2 (2 CDs) [with Cavalleria Rusticana, sel.]
  • 1953 Golden Age of Opera GAO 105/6 (2 CDs)
    Orch. Teatro San Carlo Naples, Ferdinando Previtali (cond.)
    Giulietta Simionato (L), Gianni Raimondi (F), Mario Zanasi (A), Nicola Zaccaria (B)

    1954 CETRA LPC 1256
    RAI Orch. Turin, Angelo Questa (cond.)
    Fedora Barbieri (L), Gianni Raimondi (F), Carlo Tagliabue (A), Giulio Neri(B)
    reedited as:

  • Enterprise ENTPO 4115 (2 CDs)
  • Palladio (2 CDs)
  • 1955 DECCA LXT 5146/48
    Orch. Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Alberto Erede (cond.)
    Giulietta Simionato (L), Gianni Poggi (F), Ettore Bastianini (A), Jerome Hines (B)

    1960 Movimento Musica 03 016
    RAI Orch. Turin, Nino Sanzogno (cond.)
    Fiorenza Cossotto (L), Luigi Ottolini (F), Piero Guelfi (A), Ivo Vinco (B)

    1963 Golden Age (2 CDs)
    Rec. live in Naples
    Orch. del Teatro San Carlo, Fernando Previtali (cond.)
    Giulietta Simionato (L), Gianni Raimondi (F), Mario Zanasi (A), Nicola Zaccaria (B)

    1967 G.O.P. (2 CDs)
    Rec. live in Buenos Aires
    Colon Theatre Orch., Bruno Bartoletti (cond.)
    Fiorenza Cossotto (L), Alfredo Kraus (F), Sesto Bruscantini (A), Ivo Vinco (B)

    1968 Melodram MEL 27020 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live in Torino (28 March)
    Teatro Regio Orch., Ettore Gracis (cond.)
    Fiorenza Cossotto (L), Giacomo [really, Jaume] Aragall (F), Anselmo Colzani (A), Ivo Vinco (B), Augusto Vicentini (G), Susanna Ghione (I)

    1971 Foyer 2CF 2054 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live in Tokio (13 Sept. 1971)
    NHK Symphony Orch., Oliviero de Fabritiis (cond.)
    Fiorenza Cossotto (L), Alfredo Kraus (F), Sesto Bruscantini (A), Ruggero Raimondi (B)
    Selections on:

  • Myto MCD 932.76 (2 CDs) [with La fille du régiment, sel.]
  • 1973 Butterfly Music BMCD 030 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live in San Francisco (7 September)
    San Francisco Opera House Orch., Carlo Felice Cillario (cond.)
    Maria Luisa Nave (L), Luciano Pavarotti (F), Renato Bruson (A), Bonaldo Giaiotti (B), James Atherton (G), Ariel Bybee (I)

    1974 DECCA D96 DI3
    Orch. Teatro Comunale Bologna, Richard Bonynge (cond.)
    Fiorenza Cossotto (L), Luciano Pavarotti (F), Gabriel Bacquier (A), Nicolai Ghiaurov (B)
    reedited as:

  • DECCA/London 430038-2 LM3 (3 CDs)
  • 1989 Nuova Era 6823/24 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live at the Festival della Val d'Itria, Martina Franca (3-7 Aug. 1989)
    Orch. Internazionale d'Italia, Fabio Luisi (cond.)
    Adelisa Tabiadon (L), Giuseppe Morino (F), Paolo Coni (A), Alessandro Verducci (B)

    1991 Ricordi RFCD 2015 (3 CDs)
    Orch. RAI Milan, Donato Renzetti (cond.) (in French)
    Gloria Scalchi (L), Luca Canonici (F), R. Massis (A), Giorgio Surjan (B)


    contributed by Giovanni Christen and Guillem-Jordi Graells


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