Glyndebourne Opera has a history of trend setting and pioneering opera productions and Donizetti’s opera L’elisir d’amore is no exception. Popular in Donizetti’s own lifetime, L’elisir faded into relative obscurity until the 1890s when Caruso championed the role of Nemorino: his dedication and conviction were such that Covent Garden arranged a production of the opera in 1902. L’elisir was a personal favourite of Caruso’s, so much so that in 1920 he played Nemorino in his last appearance with the Metropolitan Opera. Almost 60 years later, in 1961, it was Glyndebourne who staged a production of L’elisir d’amore designed and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Such was the success and acclaim for this production that Glyndebourne revived it in 1962, enhancing the production with the addition of the lively and capricious Mirella Freni.As the press noted: ‘Her [Freni's] looks and her cantabile singing melt, so to speak, on the tongue, and she acts her teasing charades with Sergeant Belcore as if nothing were farther from her mind than cruelty.’ (The Times, August 1962) and ‘Mirella Freni, the sparkling new Adina, rightly allowed real tenderness to shine through vanity and caprice.’ (The Sunday Times, August 1962)Mirella Freni was first engaged by Glyndebourne in 1960 (and sings Susanna in Glyndebourne’s own recording of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro GFOCD00162).Previously she had also performed at the opera house in Torino in the late 50s and sung with Netherlands Opera in 1959-60 season, but her international break and recognition came by virtue of her role as Adina in this 1962 production.This recording, released here for the first time, precedes Freni’s EMI recording of L’elisir d’amore with Nicolai Gedda as Nemorino in a Rome Opera production by some 5 years. In this recording, Freni has a cast of equals around her. As the besotted Nemorino, Luigi Alva vividly portrays the wounded innocent with The Daily Telegraph noting in August 1962 that ‘Alva’s Nemorino is a wonderful combination of rustic clowning and exquisitely finished bel canto’, with Enzo Sordello a baritone voice big enough to fill a stadium, providing a fresh virile and bold Belcore. Conductor Carlo Felice Cillario enjoyed a 60 plus year career and is remembered for his masterful interpretations of Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti operas and stands as one of the most singer-friendly conductors of all time.The 2CD set is packaged as a hard bound book containing a full libretto translated into English, French and German along with a commissioned article about the opera, and synopsis in English, French and German.

• Wykonawca Freni Mirella , Alva Luigi
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Komplet nagrań dokonanych pod batutą Herberta von Karajana dla Decca Classics! Tracklista: CD 1      1. R. Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra CD 2      1. R. Strauss Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel; Tod Und Verklarung CD 3      1. Beethoven Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 2. Brahms Symphony No. 1 CD 4      1. Mozart Symphony No. 40 2. Haydn Symphony No. 104 "London" CD 5      1. Mozart Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" 2. Haydn Symphony No. 103 "Drum Roll" CD 6      1. Music By The Strauss Family CD 7      1. Holst The Planets 2. Grieg Peer Gynt Suites CD 8      1. Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet; Nutcracker Suite CD 9      1. Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite; Sleeping Beauty Suite CD 10    1. Adam Giselle (Highlights) CD 11    1. Brahms Symphony No. 3; Tragic Overture 2. Dvorak Symphony No. 8 CD 12    1. Christmas With Leontyne Price CD 13-14           1. Verdi Aida Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Carlo Bergonzi, Singverein Der Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde CD 15-16           1. J. Strauss Ii Die Fledermaus - Gala Performance Waldemar Kmentt, Hilde Gueden, Erika Köth, Wiener Staatsopernchor CD 17-18           1. Verdi Otello Mario Del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Aldo Protti CD 19-20           1. Puccini Tosca Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giuseppe Taddei, Fernando Corena CD 21-23           1. Bizet Carmen (Rca) Leontyne Price, Franco Corelli, Mirella Freni, Robert Merrill, Wiener Staatsopernchor CD 24-26           1. Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Nicolai Ghiaurov, Galina Vishnevskaya, Ludovic Spiess, Aleksei Maslennikov, Martti Talvela CD 27-28           1. Puccini La Bohème Mirella Freni, Elizabeth Harwood, Luciano Pavarotti, Nicolai Ghiaurov CD 29-30           1. Puccini Madama Butterfly Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Christa Ludwig, Robert Kerns, Wiener Staatsopernchor CD 31-33           1. Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Ileana Cotrubas, Frederica Von Stade, Tom Krause, José Van Dam

• Wykonawca Von Karajan Herbert
• Data premiery 2020-04-10
• Nośnik CD

Kluczową postacią jest tutaj Montserrat Caballe w roli Turandot, która łączy subtelność i piękno z niesłychaną siłą wyrazu. Jako chłodna, lecz intrygująca księżniczka, konfrontuje Calafa (Hose Carrera) – heroicznego, uwodzicielskiego i nieodparcie pociągającego – z niewolnicą Liu (Mirella Freni). Dyryguje Alain Lombard, nadając hipnotyzującego charakteru temu spektakularnemu arcydziełu.

• Wykonawca Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
• Data premiery 2016-01-15
• Nośnik CD

Riccardo Muti, znany ze swej precyzji, doskonałości i integralności z operą włoską, do farsy Don Pasquale wnosi delikatny sentyment i zdecydowany dowcip. Tytułową rolę odtwarza Sesto Bruscantini, mistrz stylu buffo, któremu towarzyszy dwóch, największych włoskich śpiewaków owego czasu Mirella Freni i Leo Nucci, a także ekspresyjny szwedzki tenor – Gosta Winbergh.

• Wykonawca Freni Mirella , Bruscantini Sesto , Nucci Leo , Winbergh Gosta , Ambrosian Opera Chorus
• Data premiery 2016-09-02
• Nośnik CD

Sony Classical ma zaszczyt zaprezentować unikalny, 15-płytowy zestaw nagrań najwybitniejszych gwiazd scen operowych XX wieku. Odnajdziemy tu nagrania rekomendowane przez zespół ekspertów Diapason Magazine i nagrodzone słynnym Diapason D’ or zawierające rejestracje recitali, a także kreacje operowe m.in. takich artystów jak: Mirella Freni, Anna Moffo, Loontyne Price, Placido Domingo, Fritz Wunderlich i inni. Prawdziwa gratka dla wszystkich miłośników opery..

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2017-04-07
• Nośnik CD