Giacomo Puccini

NESSUN DORMA – Favourite Puccini Operas

LA BOHÈME

Mimi – Mirella Freni
Rodolfo – Luciano Pavarotti
Musetta – Sandra Pacetti
Marcello – Gino Quilico
Colline – Nicolai Ghiaurov
Schaunard – Stephen Dickson
Benoit / Alcindoro – Italo Tajo

Chorus and Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera
Tiziano Severini, conductor

Francesca Zambello, Stage Director
David Mitchell, Set Design
Jeanne Button & Peter J. Hall, Costume Design
Brian Large, TV Director

Recorded at the San Francisco Opera, 1988

TURANDOT

Turandot – Eva Marton
Calaf – Michael Sylvester
Liù – Lucia Mazzaria
Timur – Kevin Langan
Ping – Theodore Baerg
Pang – Dennis Peterson
Pong – Craig Estep

Chorus and Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera
Donald Runnicles, conductor

Peter McClintock, Stage Director
David Hockney, Production Design
Brian Large, TV Director

Recorded at the San Francisco Opera, 1994

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) – Yasuko Hayashi
Suzuki – Hak-Nam Kim
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton – Peter Dvorksy
Kate Pinkerton – Anna Caterina Antonacci
Sharpless – Giorgio Zancanaro
Goro – Ernesto Gavazzi
Yamadori – Arturo Testa
Bonzo – Sergio Fontana
Yakuside – Claudio Giombi

Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Lorin Maazel, conductor

Keita Asari, Director
Ichiro Takada, Sets Design
Hanae Mori, Costumes Design

Recorded at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1986

MANON LESCAUT

Manon Lescaut – Miriam Gauci
Des Grieux – Antonio Ordonez
Lescaut – Jan Danckaert
Geronte di Ravoir – Jules Bastin
Edmondo / A Dancing Master / A Lamplighter – Barry Ryan
The Innkeeper – Herman Bekaert

The Flemish Opera Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Silvio Varviso, conductor

Robert Carsen, Director
Gerda Vandenbos, Choreography
Anthony Ward, Sets and Costumes

Recorded at the Flemish Opera, 1991

Picture Format: PAL 4:3 (Manon Lescaut) / NTSC 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo / + Dolby Stereo (La bohème)
Region Code: 2, 5 (Manon Lescaut) / 0
Menu Languages: German, French, English, Spanish / + Italian, Dutch (La bohème)
Subtitle Languages: English, German, French, Spanish / + Italian (La bohème, Butterfly, Manon Lescaut) / + Dutch (Turandot)
Running Time: 8 hr 27 min
No. of DVDs: 4 (DVD 9)