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italian opera

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Italian opera music refers to the tradition of opera music that originated in Italy in the 16th century and became popular throughout Europe and the world. Italian opera is known for its emphasis on melody, drama, and vocal virtuosity, and has produced many of the most famous operas in history, including works by composers such as Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, and Donizetti. Italian opera is also characterized by its use of recitative, a type of singing that is closer to speech than to melody, and which is used to move the plot forward between arias, which are the more musically expressive parts of the opera.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
55		1952	Giacomo Puccini	La Divina	italian opera
64		1952	Gioacchino Rossini	Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia	opera
88		1952	Gioacchino Rossini	Il Barbiere de Siviglia (highlights)	classical italian opera opera
67		1953	Gaetano Donizetti	Lucia Di Lammermoor	opera
54		1955	Gioacchino Rossini	Opera Explained: ROSSINI - The Barber of Seville (Smillie)	classical italian opera opera
35		1958	Victoria De Los Angeles	Verdi: La Traviata	italian opera
71		1960	Renata Tebaldi	Vissi d'arte…	italian opera opera
83		1961	Giuseppe Verdi	VERDI: Don Carlos (Christoff, Filippeschi, Gobbi) (1954)
18		1961-09	Gioacchino Rossini	O Barbeiro de Sevilha (1	classical italian opera opera orchestral
91		1963	Giacomo Puccini	La Boheme	opera	opera # 42
53		1963	Maria Callas	Callas : Verdi AIDA	italian opera opera
68		1964	Giacomo Puccini	Madama Butterfly - Disc 2, Rome Opera House 1957
56		1965	Vincenzo Bellini	Bellini, V.: Adelson e Salvini
49		1967	Renata Tebaldi	Arias & Scenes Volume 2	italian opera soprano
24		1969	Gaetano Donizetti	Donizetti, G.: L'assedio di Calais
97		1970	Giuseppe Verdi	Aida	opera	opera # 47
23		1970	Vincenzo Bellini	Bellini, V.: Sonnambula (La) [Opera]
73		1975	Giuseppe Verdi	VERDI: Aida (Caniglia, Gigli) (1946)
48		1977	Giuseppe Verdi	Verdi: Il corsaro	classical italian opera opera
95		1980	Giuseppe Verdi	VERDI: La Forza del Destino (Tagliabue, Caniglia) (1941)
100		1981	Gioacchino Rossini	L'Italiana in Algeri	opera	opera # 64
28		1981	Vincenzo Bellini	Bellini: Collectors Edition (10 CDs) -	classical italian opera opera
36		1981	Vincenzo Bellini	Bellini: Capuleti E I Montecchi (1830 La Scala Version)	classical italian opera opera
39		1981	Georg Solti	Puccini: Highlights From La Boheme	italian opera
62		1981	Giuseppe Verdi	Verdi: Ernani	classical italian opera opera
69		1981	Alfredo Catalani	A Night at the Opera	italian opera
78		1981	Gioacchino Rossini	ROSSINI: Il Turco in Italia	classical italian opera opera
99		1981	Gioacchino Rossini	ROSSINI: Equivoco stravagante (L')	italian opera opera
14		1981	Giuseppe Verdi	Verdi, G.: Ernani [Opera]
82		1981	Vincenzo Bellini	BELLINI: Puritani I (Callas, Di Stefano) (1953)
20		1982	Giuseppe Verdi	Verdi: Great Operas from La Scala	classical italian opera opera
44		1983	Giuseppe Verdi	Verdi: Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata (I)	classical italian opera opera
45		1983	Giuseppe di Stefano	Verdi: Arias, Duets, Ensembles
4		1985	Renata Scotto	Bellini-Zaira	italian opera
30		1985	Gaetano Donizetti	Plácido Domingo - The Opera Collection	classical italian opera opera
32		1985	Maria Callas	Callas: Verdi's Nabucco	opera
70		1985	Maria Callas	Aida	italian opera
92		1985	Luciano Pavarotti	Luciano Pavarotti in Concert	italian opera
94		1987	Giuseppe Verdi	I vespri siciliani	italian opera opera
98		1989	Mario del Monaco	My First Concert	italian opera tenor	tenor # 95
65		1989	Giuseppe Verdi	Verdi: Luisa Miller	classical italian opera opera
74		1989	Giuseppe Verdi	Verdi 101	italian opera opera
59		1990	Enrico Caruso	Enrico Caruso: Greatest Opera Recordings 1902 - 1920	italian opera opera tenor	tenor # 41
79		1990	Giacomo Puccini	PUCCINI: Gianni Schicchi	opera	opera # 84
3		1990	Arturo Toscanini	Verdi:Otello	italian opera
17		1990	Orchestra Internazionale d' Italia	Puccini: Le Villi	italian opera
9		1991	Mariella Devia / Luca Canonici	Bellini: La Sonnambula - Melodramma in due atti di Felice Romani	italian opera
11		1992	Ezio Di Cesare / Denia Mazzola / Luciana D'Intino / Nicoletta Ciliento	Rossini: Aureliano In Palmira	italian opera
89		1993	Gioacchino Rossini	Rossini: Overtures	classical italian opera opera orchestral
96		1993	Ruggiero Leoncavallo	Pagliacci	italian opera
86		1994-01-01	Riccardo Muti	Verdi: Aida	italian opera
10		1996	Orchestra & Coro Del Teatro Regio Di Torino	Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia	italian opera
38		1996	Giacomo Puccini	PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut (Highlights)	italian opera
40		1996	Amilcare Ponchielli	PONCHIELLI: La Gioconda (Callas) (1952)	italian opera
47		1997	Gioacchino Rossini	The Barber of Seville (Highlights)	classical italian opera opera
81		1997	Franco Corelli	Tosca	italian opera opera
63		2001	Renata Scotto	Italian Opera Arias	opera soprano	soprano # 45
58		2001	Giuseppe Verdi	Verdi: Aida	opera
42		2003	Antonio Pappano/Roberto Alagna/Angela Gheorghiu	Verdi : Il Trovatore	italian opera opera
46		2005	Giuseppe Verdi	Plácido Domingo - The Opera Collection	classical italian opera opera
61		2006	Vincenzo Bellini	Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi	italian opera opera
66		2006	Gioacchino Rossini	ROSSINI: Tancredi	classical italian opera opera
75		2006-01-01	Amilcare Ponchielli	La Gioconda	italian opera
41		2007	Gaetano Donizetti	Donizetti: Elisir D'Amore (L') (Metropolitan Opera) (1949)	italian opera
84		2007	Gaetano Donizetti	DONIZETTI: Elisir d'amore (L') (Highlights)	opera
77		2008	Gioacchino Rossini	L'occasione fa il ladro	classical italian opera opera
93		2008	Giacomo Puccini	Puccini: Manon Lescaut	italian opera opera
72		2009	Maria Callas	La Wally	classical italian opera opera
60		2011	Gaetano Donizetti	Gemma di Vergy	italian opera opera
27		2012	Vincenzo Bellini	Bellini, V.: Puritani (I) [Opera]
33		2013	Vincenzo Bellini	Bellini, V.: Zaira
37		2013	Vincenzo Bellini	Bellini, V.: Bianca E Fernando [Opera]
80		2014	Francesco Cavalli	CAVALLI: Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne	baroque italian opera opera
25		2016	Joan Sutherland	Joan Sutherland - The Art of the Prima Donna	baroque classical italian opera opera
31		2018	Gioachino Rossini	Plácido Domingo - The Opera Collection	classical italian opera opera
43		2018	Gioachino Rossini	Rossini: Bianca E Falliero	classical italian opera opera
8		2018	Gioachino Rossini	Rossini, G.: Aureliano in Palmira
29		2018	Gioachino Rossini	Rossini, G.: Italian Girl in Algiers (The) (L'Italiana in Algeri) [Opera] (Highlights) (Sung in English)
50			Luciano Pavarotti [Tenor]	Pavarotti & Friends Together For The Children Of Bosnia	opera classical	tenor # 80
51			Luciano Pavarotti [Artist]	Pavarotti & Friends for Cambodia and Tibet	opera classical	tenor # 82
52			Luciano Pavarotti [tenor]	Pavarotti & Friends Together For The Children Of Bosnia	opera classical	tenor # 83
1			Orchestra e Coro dell' E.A.R. Teatro Bellini	Bellini: Adelson & Salvini	italian opera
2			Orchestra Camerata Musicale	Rossini: La Pietra Del Paragone	italian opera
6			Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino	Verdi: I Due Foscari	italian opera
7			Orchestra & Coro della RTSI	Rossini: La Gazzetta	italian opera
12			Bertil Alstergard	VERDI: Rigoletto	classical italian opera opera
13			Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Felice di Genova	Rossini: Le siége de Corinthe	italian opera
19			Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Massimo "Bellini"	Bellini: Zaira	classical italian opera opera
21			Maria Callas/Mario Filippeschi/Ebe Stignani/Nicola Rossi-Lemeni/Paolo Caroli/Rina Cavallari/Coro E O	Bellini:norma	italian opera
85			Alfredo Catalani	Loreley	classical italian opera opera
87			Ruggero Leoncavallo	Pagliacci	italian opera
90			Leoncavallo	Pavarotti Songbook	italian opera
5			Ferdinando Fontana	Puccini, G.: Villi (Le) [Opera]
15			Tullio Serafin/Maria Callas/Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano	The Legend
16			Ruggero Leoncavallo	Leoncavallo, R.: Boheme (La) [Opera]
22			Rafael Kubelik: Orchestra del teatro della Scala Milano - Bergonzi, Fischer-Diskau, Scotto, Vinco, Cissotto	Verdi: Rigoletto
26			Mario Del Monaco, Leonard Warren, Victoria De Los Angeles, Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Theatre, Fausto Cleva, Choir of the New York Metropolitan Theatre	Verdi: Otello
34			Orquesta del Teatro Metropolitan de New York, Coro del Teatro Metropolitan de New York, Gennaro Papi	Verdi: Rigoletto
57			Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida	Maria Callas Rarities
76			Victoria de los Angeles/Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma/Tullio Serafin	Verdi: La Traviata

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