Tosca - Discography


Catalogue numbers for LP format unless specified as CD

  • 1920 - 1949
  • 1950 - 1959
  • 1960 - 1969
  • 1970 - 1979
  • 1980 - 1992



  • 1929 HMV
    Orch. Teatro alla Scala Milan, Carlo Sabajno (cond.)
    Carmen Melis (Tosca), Piero Pauli (Cavaradossi), Apollo Granforte (Scarpia)
    reissued as:


    1930 CBS Columbia EL4 (2 CDs)
    Symph. Orch. Milan, Lorenzo Molajoli (cond.)
    Bianca Scacciati (T), Alessandro Granda (C), Enrico Molinari (S)

    1932 Odeon 123810/6
    Orch. Opéra Comique Paris, G. Clöez (cond.) (sung in French)
    Vallin (T), di Mazzei (C), Payen (S)

    1938 HMV ALP 1020/21
    Orch. Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Oliviero de Fabritiis (cond.)
    Maria Caniglia (T), Beniamino Gigli (C), Dino Borgioli (S)
    reissued as:


    1944 Preiser PRE 90210 (2 CDs)
    Berlin RSO, Leopold Ludwig (cond.)
    Hildegarde Ranczak (T), Helge Roswaenge (C), Georg Hann (S)

    1950 SRO 820-2
    Rec. live (June 8 1950)
    Orch. Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, U. Mugnai (cond.)
    Maria Callas (T), Mario Filippeschi (C), Weede (S)

    1951 Fonit Cetra LPC 1230
    Orch. RAI Turin, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (cond.)
    Adriana Guerrini (T), Gianni Poggi (C), Paolo Silveri (S)
    reissued as:

    1951 Westminster WL 5351/52
    Orch. Staatsoper Wien, Argeo Quadri (cond.)
    Simona Dell'Argine (T), Nino Scattolini (C), Scipio Colombo (S)
    reissued as:

    1951 Remington 199-62
    Festival Orch. Florence, Emidio Tieri (cond.)
    Vera Petrova (T), Eddy Ruhl (C), Piero Campolonghi (S)
    reissued as:

    1952 DECCA LXT 2730/31
    Orch. Accademia S. Cecilia Rome, Alberto Erede (cond.)
    Renata Tebaldi (T), Giuseppe Campora (C), Enzo Mascherini (S)
    reissued as:


    1952 Fonit Cetra LO 41
    Orch. Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Guido Picco (cond.)
    Maria Callas (T), Giuseppe Di Stefano (C), Piero Campolonghi (S)
    reissued as:


    1953 Columbia QCX 10028/29
    Orch. Teatro alla Scala, Victor de Sabata (cond.)
    Maria Callas (T), Giuseppe Di Stefano (C), Tito Gobbi (S)
    reissued as:


    1953 Eurodisc 300 727-420
    Orch. Radio Hamburg, Wilhelm Schüchter (cond.) (in german)
    Dragica Martinis (T), Rudolf Schock (C), Josef Metternich (S)

    1953 Melodram MEL 436
    Orch. Radio Bayern, Richard Kraus (cond.) (in german)
    Leonie Rysanek (T), Hans Hopf (C), Josef Metternich (S)

    1955 Fonit Cetra LPC 1261
    Orch. RAI Turin, Arturo Basile (cond.)
    Gigliola Frazzoni (T), Ferruccio Tagliavini (C), Gian Giacomo Guelfi (S)
    reissued as:


    1955 Legato Classics LCD 157-2 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live at Covent Garden (June 30 1955)
    Royal Opera House Orch., Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (cond.)
    Renata Tebaldi (T), Ferruccio Tagliavini (C), Tito Gobbi (S)

    1955 GOP 752 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live at Covent Garden (June 30 1955)
    Orch. Teatro San Carlo Naples, Bellezza (cond.)
    Leyla Gencer (T), de Santis (C), Giuseppe Taddei (S)

    1955 Fonit Cetra DOC 7
    Orch. Metropolitan Theatre New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos (cond.)
    Renata Tebaldi (T), Richard Tucker (C), Leonard Warren (S)
    reissued as:


    1956 RCA LM/LSC 6052
    Orch. Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Erich Leinsdorf (cond.)
    Zinka Milanov (T), Jussi Björling (C), Leonard Warren (S)
    reissued as:


    1957 Philips A 00463/64 L
    Orch. Teatro San Carlo Naples, Tulli Serafin (cond.)
    Antonietta Stella (T), Gianni Poggi (C), Giuseppe Taddei (S)
    reissued as:


    1957 Movimento Musica 02.400
    Orch. RAI Milan, Emidio Tieri (cond.)
    Magda Olivero (T), Eugenio Fernandi (C), Scipio Colombo (S)
    reissued as:


    1957 Legato Classics LCD 102-2 (2 CDs)
    Orch. Covent Garden London, Alexander Gibson (cond.)
    Zinka Milanov (T), Franco Corelli (C), Gian Giacomo Guelfi (S)

    1958 GDS Records CD 21023 (2 CDs)
    Orch. Teatro alla Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni (cond.)
    Rec. live in Brussels (June 20 1958)
    Renata Tebaldi (T), Giuseppe Di Stefano (C), Ettore Bastianini (S)

    1959 DECCA LXT 5554/55, SXL 2180/81
    Orch. Accademia S. Cecilia Rome, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (cond.)
    Renata Tebaldi (T), Mario Del Monaco (C), George London (S)
    reissued as:


    1959 Legato Classics LCD 171-2 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live (Sept. 21 1959)
    Orch. Teatro la Gran Guardia Livorno, M. Parenti (cond.)
    Renata Tebaldi (T), Franco Corelli (C), Anselmo Colzani (S)

    1959 CLS Records AMDRL 22 818
    Orch. Teatro alla Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni (cond.)
    Renata Tebaldi (T), Giuseppe Di Stefano (C), Tito Gobbi (S)

    1960 VEGA 8001/03
    Orch. Opéra Paris, Manuel Rosenthal (cond.)
    Jane Rhodès (T), Albert Lance (C), Gabriel Bacquier (S)
    reissued as:


    1960 Melodram MEL 27026 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live, Turin (Jul. 7 1960)
    Orch. RAI Turin, Vernizzi (cond.)
    Magda Olivero (T), Alvino Misciano (C), Giulio Fioravanti (S)

    1960 DG LPM 18722/23, SLPM 138722
    Orch. Staatsoper Berlin, Horst Stein (cond.) (in german)
    Stefania Woytowics (T), Sandor Konya (C), Kim Borg (S)

    1962 RCA LD/LDS 7022
    Phil. Orch. Wien, Herbert von Karajan (cond.)
    Leontyne Price (T), Giuseppe Di Stefano (C), Giuseppe Taddei (S)
    reissued as:


    1963 Melodram MLO 270112 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live (Apr. 10 1963)
    Philadelphia Opera Orch., C. Maresco (cond.)
    Birgit Nilsson (T), Ferruccio Tagliavini (C), Ramon Vinay (S)

    1964 Melodram MEL 26011 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live (Jan. 21 1964)
    Orch. Covent Garden London, Carlo Felice Cillario (cond.)
    Maria Callas (T), Renato Cioni (C), Tito Gobbi (S)


    1964 HMV Angel AN/SAN 149/59
    Orch. du Conservatoire Paris, Georges Prêtre (cond.)
    Maria Callas (T), Carlo Bergonzi (C), Tito Gobbi (S)
    reissued as:


    1964 Melodija D 02315/20
    URSS Symph. Orch., Evgenij Svetlanov (cond.)
    Tamara Milaskina (T), Zurab Andzaparidze (C), Oleg Klenov (S)

    1965 Melodram MEL 480
    Orch. Metropolitan Theatre New York, Fausto Cleva (cond.)
    Maria Callas (T), Franco Corelli (C), Tito Gobbi (S)
    reissued as:



    1965 Melodram MEL 450
    Orch. Opéra Paris, Nicola Rescigno (cond.)
    Maria Callas (T), Renato Cioni (C), Tito Gobbi (S)
    reissued as:


    1966 DECCA MET/SET 341/2
    Orch. Accademia S. Cecilia Rome, Lorin Maazel (cond.)
    Birgit Nilsson (T), Franco Corelli (C), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau(S)
    reissued as:


    1968 Rodolphe RP 12422/23
    Orch. Metropolitan Theatre New York, Zubin Mehta (cond.)
    Régine Crespin (T), Gianni Raimondi (C), Gabriel Bacquier (S)

    1969 Nuova Era 2286/87 (2 CDs)
    Orch. Metropolitan Theatre New York, George Schick (cond.)
    Birgit Nilsson (T), Placido Domingo (C), William Dooley (S)

    1969 Melodram CDM 27508 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live (Nov. 26 1969)
    San Francisco Opera Orch., Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (cond.)
    Leonie Rysanek (T), Richard Tucker (C), Cornell MacNeil (S)

    1972 Bongiovanni GAO 166/167 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live in Faenza (March 9 1972)
    Orch. Teatro Comunale di Bologna, I. Savini (cond.)
    Magda Olivero (T), Giuseppe Giacomini (C), Aldo Protti (S)
    Also on:


    1972 RCA ARL 2 0105
    New Philarmonia Orch., Zubin Mehta (cond.)
    Leontyne Price (T), Placido Domingo (C), Sherrill Milnes (S)
    reissued as:


    1974 Arkadia MP 496.2 (2 CDs)
    Orch. Teatro alla Scala Milano, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (cond.)
    Raina Kabaivanska (T), Placido Domingo (C), Zanasi (S)

    1976 DG 2707 087
    Orch. National de France, Mstislav Rostropovic (cond.)
    Galina Visnevskaja (T), Franco Bonisolli (C), Matteo Manuguerra (S)

    1976 Philips 6700 108
    Orch. Covent Garden London, Colin Davis (cond.)
    Montserrat Caballé (T), José Carreras (C), Ingvar Wixell (S), with Samuel Ramey (Angelotti)
    reissued as:


    1976 EMI 3C 165 99357/8
    Orch. Bolscioi Theater Moscow, Mark Ermler (cond.)
    Tamara Milaskina (T), Vladimir Atlantov (C), Jurij Mazurok (S)

    1977 Electrecord ST ECE 01412/14
    Orch. of the Opera Bucarest, Cornel Trailescu (cond.)
    Virginia Zeani (T), Corneliu Fanateanu (C), Nicolae Herlea (S)

    1978 DECCA D 134 D2
    National Philarmonic Orch. London, Nicola Rescigno (cond.)
    Mirella Freni (T), Luciano Pavarotti (C), Sherrill Milnes (S)
    reissued as:


    1979 DG 2707 121
    Berlin Phil. Orch., Herbert von Karajan (cond.)
    Katia Ricciarelli (T), José Carreras (C), Ruggero Raimondi (S)
    reissued as:


    1980 EMI 3C 165 03955/56
    Philarmonia Orch. London, James Levine (cond.)
    Renata Scotto (T), Placido Domingo (C), Renato Bruson (S)
    reissued as:


    1982 Frequenz 2 DAA
    Phil. Orch. Sofia, Gabriele Bellini (cond.)
    Raina Kabaivanska (T), Nazzareno Antinori (C), Nelson Portella (S)
    reissued as:


    1985 DECCA 414 597-1/2 (2 CDs)
    National Philarmonic Orch. London, Georg Solti (cond.)
    Kiri Te Kanawa (T), Jaime Aragall (C), Leo Nucci (S)

    1990 Sony Classical S2K 45847 (2 CDs)
    Hungarian State Orch, Michael Tilson Thomas (cond.)
    Eva Marton (T), Jos&eagute; Carreras (C), Juan Pons (S)

    1990 NAXOS 8.660001-2 (2 CDs)
    Czecho-Slovak RSO Bratislav, Alexander Rahbari (cond.)
    Nelly Miriciou (T), Giorgio Lamberti (C), Silvano Carroli (S)

    1990 RCA 09026 61806-2 (2 CDs)
    Rec. live, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Dec. 13 1990)
    Orch. Teatro dell'Opera Rome, Daniel Oren (cond.)
    Raina Kabaivanska (T), Luciano Pavarotti (C), Ingvar Wixell (S)
    highlights on:


    1992 DG 431775-2 (2 CDs)
    Philarmonia Orch. London, Giuseppe Sinopoli (cond.)
    Mirella Freni (T), Placido Domingo (C), Samuel Ramey (S)


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