''La bohème'' discography

This is a partial discography of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème, which premiered on 1 February 1896, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

Recordings

Year Cast
(Mimì, Musetta, Rodolfo,
Marcello, Colline, Schaunard)
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label[1]
1917 Gemma Bosini
Adalgisa Giana
Reno Andreini
Ernesto Badini
Vincenzo Bettoni
Aristide Baracchi
Carlo Sabajno
Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus
LP: Società Nazionale del
Grammofono
Cat: S 5018-42
1928 Rosetta Pampanini
Luba Mirella
Luigi Marini
Gino Vanelli
Tancredi Pasero
Aristide Baracchi
Lorenzo Molajoli
Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus
CD: Arkadia
Cat: 78047
Rosina Torri
Thea Vitulli
Aristodemo Giorgini
Ernesto Badini
Luigi Manfrini
Aristide Baracchi
Carlo Sabajno
Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus
CD: VAI Audio
Cat: VAIA 1078-2
1938 Licia Albanese
Tatiana Menotti
Beniamino Gigli
Afro Poli
Duilio Baronti
Aristide Baracchi
Umberto Berrettoni
Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus
CD: Naxos Historical
Cat: 8.110072-73
1942 Grace Moore
Frances Greer
Frederick Jagel
Francesco Valentino
Ezio Pinza
Wilfred Engelman
Cesare Sodero
Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus
CD: Line Music
Cat: 5.00284
1946 Licia Albanese
Anne McKnight
Jan Peerce
Francesco Valentino
Nicola Moscona
George Cehanovsky
Arturo Toscanini
NBC Symphony orchestra & chorus
CD: RCA Victor
Cat: 60288
1947 Bidu Sayão
Mimi Benzell
Richard Tucker
Francesco Valentino
Nicola Moscona
George Cehanovsky
Giuseppe Antonicelli
Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus
CD: Arkadia
Cat: 78068
1951 Renata Tebaldi
Hilde Güden
Giacinto Prandelli
Giovanni Inghilleri
Raffaele Arié
Fernando Corena
Alberto Erede
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchectra & chorus
CD: Naxos
Cat: 8.110252-53
1952 Rosanna Carteri
Elvina Ramella
Ferruccio Tagliavini
Giuseppe Taddei
Cesare Siepi
Pier Luigi Latinucci
Gabriele Santini
Orchestra Sinfonica and Chorus of RAI
CD: Warner Fonit
Cat: 8573 87270-2
1956 Victoria de los Ángeles
Lucine Amara
Jussi Björling
Robert Merrill
Giorgio Tozzi
John Reardon
Thomas Beecham
RCA Victor orchestra & chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 7243-5-67753-2-9
CD: Naxos
Cat:8.111249-50[2]
Maria Callas
Anna Moffo
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Rolando Panerai
Nicola Zaccaria
Manuel Spatafora
Antonino Votto
Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus
CD: Naxos
Cat: 8.111332-33
1958 Licia Albanese
Laurel Hurley
Carlo Bergonzi
Mario Sereni
Clifford Harvuot
Norman Scott
Thomas Schippers
Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus
(Recorded on 15 Feb 1958)
CD: Sony Classical
Cat: 88697804632
Renata Tebaldi
Gianna D'Angelo
Carlo Bergonzi
Ettore Bastianini
Cesare Siepi
Renato Cesari
Tullio Serafin
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchectra & chorus
CD: Decca
Cat: 470 431-2
1959 Licia Albanese
Audrey Schuh
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Giuseppe Valdengo
Norman Treigle
Arthur Cosenza
Renato Cellini
New Orleans Opera Association orchectra & chorus
CD: VAI
Cat: VAIA 1119-2
1960 Léna Pastor
Irène Gromova
Alain Vanzo
Willy Clément
Xavier Depraz
Jean-Pierre Laffage
Georges Derveaux
Orchestre Radio Lyrique de la RTF
DVD: Fra Musica
Cat:
1961 Anna Moffo
Mary Costa
Richard Tucker
Robert Merrill
Giorgio Tozzi
Philip Maero
Erich Leinsdorf
Rome Opera orchectra & chorus
CD: RCA Victor
Cat: 09026-63179-2
Renata Scotto
Jolanda Meneguzzer
Gianni Poggi
Tito Gobbi
Giuseppe Modesti
Giorgio Giorgetti
Antonino Votto
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchectra & chorus
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 435 715-2
1962–1963 Mirella Freni
Mariella Adani
Nicolai Gedda
Mario Sereni
Ferruccio Mazzoli
Mario Basiola, Jr.
Thomas Schippers
Rome Opera orchectra & chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 91998
1972 Mirella Freni
Elizabeth Harwood
Luciano Pavarotti
Rolando Panerai
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Gianni Maffeo
Herbert von Karajan
Berlin Philharmonic orchestra
Deutschen Oper Berlin chorus
CD: Decca
Cat: 421245
1973 Montserrat Caballé
Judith Blegen
Plácido Domingo
Sherrill Milnes
Ruggero Raimondi
Vicente Sardinero
Georg Solti
London Philharmonic Orchestra
John Alldis Choir
CD: RCA Victor
Cat: 74321 39496-2
1979 Katia Ricciarelli
Ashley Putnam
José Carreras
Francis Egerton
Håkan Hagegård
Robert Lloyd
Colin Davis
Royal Opera House orchectra & chorus
CD: Philips
Cat: 4422602
Ileana Cotrubaș
Lucia Popp
Luciano Pavarotti
Lorenzo Saccomani
Yevgeny Nesterenko
Giorgio Giorgetti
Carlos Kleiber
Teatro alla Scala orchectra & chorus
(Recorded on 271 and 302 March 1979)
DVD: Encore 21441
CD Myto 011 2402
1983 Mirella Freni
Margherita Guglielmi
Luciano Pavarotti
Wolfgang Brendel
Jan-Hendrik Rootering
John Janssen
Carlos Kleiber, Bavarian State Opera orchectra & chorus
(Recorded on 16 July 1983 at National Theatre Munich)
CD: Audio Encyclopedia
Cat: AE204
1990 Daniela Dessì
Adelina Scarabelli
Giuseppe Sabbatini
Paolo Gavanelli
Carlo Colombara
Alfonso Antoniozzi
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Teatro Comunale di Bologna orchestra & chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 74321 39496-2
1994 Cheryl Barker
Christine Douglas
David Hobson
Roger Lemke
Gary Rowley
David Lemke
Richard Gill
The Australian Opera orchectra & chorus
Australian Opera ballet
DVD: ABC Classics
Cat: 708115
1995 Kiri Te Kanawa
Nancy Gustafson
Richard Leech
Alan Titus
Roberto Scanduzzi
Gino Quilico
Kent Nagano
London Symphony Orchestra
The Ambrosian Singers
St. Clement Danes School Choir
CD: Erato
Cat: 0630-1-10699-2
1998 Angela Gheorghiu
Elisabetta Scano
Roberto Alagna
Simon Keenlyside
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Roberto De Candia
Riccardo Chailly
Teatro alla Scala orchectra & chorus
CD: Decca
Cat: 470 624-2 DSA
1999 Barbara Frittoli
Eva Mei
Andrea Bocelli
Paolo Gavanelli
Mario Luperi
Natale de Carolis
Zubin Mehta
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
CD: Decca
Cat: 470 62435782
2002 Alexia Voulgaridou
Elena de la Merced
Rolando Villazón
Ludovic Tézier
Markus Marquardt
Toby Stafford-Allen
Ulf Schirmer
Vienna Symphony
(Recorded at Bregenzer Festspiele in 2002)
DVD: Capriccio Digital
Cat: 93 515
2006 Inva Mula
Laura Giordano
Aquiles Machado
Fabio Capitanucci
Felipe Bou
David Menéndez
Jesús López-Cobos
Teatro Real orchectra & chorus
DVD: Opus Arte
Cat: OA0961D
2008 Anna Netrebko
Nicole Cabell
Rolando Villazón
Boaz Daniel
Stéphane Degout
Vitalij Kowaljow
Bertrand de Billy
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
(Recorded at Münchner Philharmonie in April 2007)
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 477 6600
DVD: Kultur International Films
Cat: KUL D4601
2012 Takesha Meshé Kizart
Taryn Fiebig
Ji-Min Park
José Carbó
David Parkin
Shane Lowrencev
Shao-Chia Lü
Opera Australia orchectra & chorus
DVD: ABC Classics
Cat: 762470

References

Notes

  1. Recordings of La bohème on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  2. "Puccini: Boheme (la)". Hong Kong: Naxos Records. 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2010.

Sources

  • American Record Guide, September/October 2000, Vol.63 No.5 pp. 73–83
  • Budden, Julian, Puccini: His Life and Works, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 494. ISBN 978-0-19-816468-5.
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