Works on This Recording
1. Oberto by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Giovanni Battista Parodi (Baritone), Mariana Pentcheva (Alto), Fabio Sartori (Tenor),
Francesca Sassu (Soprano), Giorgia Bertagni (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Antonello Allemandi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1839; Italy
Date of Recording: 2007
Venue: Teatro Regio di Parma
2. I lombardi by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Valdis Jansons (Baritone), Gregory Bonfatti (Tenor), Roberto Tagliavini (Bass),
Dimitra Theodossiou (Soprano), Roberto De Biasio (Tenor), Michele Pertusi (Bass),
Cristina Giannelli (Soprano), Francesco Meli (Tenor), Daniela Pini (Soprano)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1843; Italy
3. Giovanna d'Arco by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Maurizio Lo Piccolo (Voice), Luigi Petroni (Tenor), Evan Bowers (Tenor),
Renato Bruson (Baritone), Svetla Vassileva (Soprano)
Conductor: Bruno Bartoletti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845; Italy
Date of Recording: 2008
Venue: Teatro Regio di Parma
4. Un giorno di regno by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Alessandra Marianelli (Soprano), Ivan Magri (Tenor), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Soprano),
Andrea Porta (Bass), Guido Loconsolo (Baritone), Paolo Bordogna (Baritone)
Conductor: Donato Renzetti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1840; Italy
Date of Recording: 2010
Venue: Teatro Regio di Parma
5. Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Susan Neves (Soprano), Carlo Guelfi (Baritone), Marco Berti (Tenor),
Giacomo Prestia (Baritone), Nicoletta Zanini (Soprano), Samuele Simoncini (Tenor),
Alessandro Svab (Bass)
Conductor: Antonello Allemandi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1844; Italy
6. Alzira by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Joe Tsuchizaki (Tenor), Ferdinand von Bothmer (Tenor), Francesco Facini (Bass),
Junko Saito (Mezzo Soprano), Thomas Gazheli (Baritone), Anna Lucia Nardi (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Gustav Kuhn
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bolzano-Trento Haydn Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845; Italy
7. Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Mauro Buffoli (Tenor), Alessandro Spina (Bass), Dimitra Theodossiou (Soprano),
Anna Maria Chiuri (Soprano), Bruno Ribeiro (Tenor), Leo Nucci (Baritone),
Riccardo Zanellato (Bass)
Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1842; Italy
Date of Recording: 2009
Venue: Teatro Regio di Parma
8. I due Foscari by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Alessandro Bianchini (Bass), Roberto De Biasio (Tenor), Tatiana Serjan (Soprano),
Gregory Bonfatti (Tenor), Roberto Tagliavini (Bass), Mauro Buffoli (Tenor),
Marcella Polidori (Soprano)
Conductor: Donato Renzetti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1844; Italy
9. Attila by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Cristiano Cremonini (Tenor), Susanna Branchini (Soprano), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Baritone),
Sebastian Catana (Baritone), Roberto De Biasio (Tenor)
Conductor: Andrea Battistoni
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1846; Italy
10. Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Bruno Bartoletti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847/1865; Italy
11. La battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Boris Brott
Orchestra/Ensemble: Trieste Teatro Verdi Orchestra, Trieste Teatro Verdi Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1849; Italy
12. Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Massimo Zanetti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Italy
13. I masnadieri by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Italy
14. Luisa Miller by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Donato Renzetti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1849; Italy
15. Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Cristina Giannelli (Soprano), Roberto Jachini Virgili (Tenor), Mzia Nioradze (Mezzo Soprano),
Teresa Romano (Mezzo Soprano), Marcelo Alvarez (Tenor), Claudio Sgura (Baritone)
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853; Italy
16. Il corsaro by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Carlo Montanaro
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1848; Italy
17. Stiffelio by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Andrea Battistoni
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1850; Italy
18. La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853; Italy
19. I vespri siciliani by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Massimo Zanetti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1855; Italy
20. La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Carlos Alvarez (Baritone), Nina Stemme (Soprano), Nadia Krasteva (Mezzo Soprano),
Alastair Miles (Bass), Tiziano Bracci (Bass), Elisabeta Marin (Soprano),
Salvatore Licitra (Tenor), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Bass)
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1862/1869; Italy
21. Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Carlos Alvarez (Baritone), Marina Poplavskaya (Soprano), Antonello Ceron (Tenor),
Barbara Di Castri (Mezzo Soprano), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Tenor), Mikhail Petrenko (Bass)
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburg Festival Children's Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Italy
22. Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Francesco Meli (Tenor), Leo Nucci (Baritone), Paolo Pecchioli (Bass),
Tamar Iveri (Soprano), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Bass)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1857; Italy
23. Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Giacomo Prestia (Baritone), Cellia Costea (Soprano), Mario Malagnini (Tenor),
Irene Candelier (Soprano), Simone Piazzola (Baritone)
Conductor: Fabrizio Ventura
Orchestra/Ensemble: Emilia Regional Municipal Theatre Orchestra, Amadeus Lyric Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1867/1886
24. Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Romina Tomasoni (Mezzo Soprano), Svetla Vassileva (Soprano), Barbara Bargnesi (Soprano),
Daniela Pini (Soprano), Antonio Gandía (Tenor), Ambrogio Maestri (Baritone)
Conductor: Andrea Battistoni
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Italy
25. Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Filippo Polinelli (Bass), Kirstin Lewis (Soprano), Vladimir Stoyanov (Baritone),
Francesco Meli (Tenor), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Mezzo Soprano), Serena Gamberoni (Soprano),
Antonio Barbargallo ()
Conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1859; Italy
26. Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: George Andguladze (), Mariana Pentcheva (Alto), Walter Fraccaro (Tenor),
Susanna Brachini (Soprano), Alberto Gazale (Baritone), Carlo Malinverno (Bass)
Conductor: Antonino Fogliani
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1871; Italy
27. Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Francesco Meli (Tenor), Sonia Ganassi (Mezzo Soprano), Riccardo Zanellato (Bass),
Dimitra Theodossiou (Soprano)
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1874; Italy