Andrea Chénier discography

This is a list of recordings of Andrea Chénier, an opera by the composer Umberto Giordano, which was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 28 March 1896.

Audio recordings

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Year Cast
(Andrea Chénier,
Maddalena de Coigny,
Carlo Gérard)
Conductor,
Opera House and Orchestra
Label[1]
1920 Luigi Lupato
Valentina Bartolomasi
Adolfo Pacini
Carlo Sabajno
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
LP: Società Nazionale del
Grammofono
Cat: S 5520-5552
1931 Luigi Marini
Lina Bruna Rasa
Carlo Galeffi
Lorenzo Molajoli
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
CD: Naxos Records
Cat: 8.110066-67
1941 Beniamino Gigli
Maria Caniglia
Gino Bechi
Oliviero De Fabritiis
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
CD:EMI Classics
Cat: 69996
1955 Mario Del Monaco
Maria Callas
Aldo Protti
Antonino Votto
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
(Live recording)
CD:EMI Classics
Cat: 67913
1957 Mario Del Monaco
Renata Tebaldi
Ettore Bastianini
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus
Decca
Cat: 425407
1957 Richard Tucker
Zinka Milanov
Leonard Warren
Fausto Cleva
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
Streaming audio:
Met Opera on Demand[2]
1958 Richard Tucker
Mary Curtis-Verna
Mario Sereni
Fausto Cleva
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
Book of the Month Club
Cat: MO 826
1960 Franco Corelli
Renata Tebaldi
Ettore Bastianini
Lovro von Matačić
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus
CD:Opera d'Oro
Cat: OPD1303
1963 Franco Corelli
Antonietta Stella
Mario Sereni
Gabriele Santini
Rome Opera House orchestra and chorus
CD:EMI Classics
Cat: 58676
1976 Plácido Domingo
Renata Scotto
Sherrill Milnes
James Levine
National Philharmonic Orchestra
John Alldis Choir
LP: RCA Red Seal
Cat: ARL3-2046
CD: RCA Victor Red Seal
Cat: 74321 39499 2
1984 Luciano Pavarotti
Montserrat Caballé
Leo Nucci
Riccardo Chailly
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Welsh National Opera chorus
CD:Decca
Cat: 410117
1986 José Carreras
Éva Marton
Giorgio Zancanaro
Giuseppe Patanè
Hungarian State Opera orchestra
Hungarian State R/TV Chorus
Hungarian R/TV Children's chorus
CD:Sony Classical
Cat: 42369
2014 Marcelo Álvarez
Patricia Racette
Željko Lučić
Gianandrea Noseda
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
Streaming audio:
Met Opera on Demand[3]

Video recordings

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year cast
(Maddalena de Coigny,
Andrea Chénier,
Carlo Gérard)
conductor,
chorus and orchestra
label
1961 Renata Tebaldi
Mario del Monaco
Aldo Protti
Franco Capuana
Italian Opera Chorus, NHK Symphony Orchestra
live on 1 Oct 1961 at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
DVD: VAI
cat.: 4419
1973 Celestina Casapietra
Franco Corelli
Piero Cappuccilli
Bruno Bartoletti
Milan RAI Chorus and Orchestra
DVD: Hardy Classic Video
cat.: HCD 4008[4]
1981 Gabriela Beňačková
Plácido Domingo
Piero Cappuccilli
Nello Santi
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
cat.: 00440 073 4070
1985 Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Plácido Domingo
Giorgio Zancanaro
Julius Rudel
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
DVD: Kultur
cat.: 032031141094
1996 Maria Guleghina
Luciano Pavarotti
Juan Pons
James Levine
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
SD video:
Met Opera on Demand or DVD[5]
2015 Eva-Maria Westbroek
Jonas Kaufmann
Željko Lučić
Antonio Pappano
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
DVD: Warner Classics[6]
cat.: 0190295937799
2017,
March 18
Anja Harteros
Jonas Kaufmann
Luca Salsi
Omer Meir Wellber
Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Bavarian State Orchestra
DVD: Classical HD Collection
cat.: MODV 025
2017,
Nov. 29 to Dec. 31
Anja Harteros
Jonas Kaufmann
George Petean
Marco Armiliato
Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Bavarian State Orchestra
DVD: Bayerische Staatsoper
cat.: 4028098000432[7]

References

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  1. ^ Recordings of Andrea Chenier on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  2. ^ Met Opera on Demand: Audio recording of 28 December 1957; Met Opera Archive: CID:176600
  3. ^ Met Opera on Demand: Audio recording of 12 April 2014; Met Opera Archive: CID:355428
  4. ^ The Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2012, p. 494; ASIN B000084T7E.
  5. ^ Met Opera on Demand: Performance of 15 October 1996; Met Opera Archive: CID:326150; DVD, OCLC 761697662.
  6. ^ https://www.warnerclassics.com/de/release/giordano-andrea-chenier-royal-opera
  7. ^ https://naxosdirekt.de/labels/bayerische-staatsoper-recordings-27886