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

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

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

  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