Aida discography

This is a partial discography of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Aida. It was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on December 24, 1871.

Audio recordings

Year	Cast (Aida, Amneris, Radamès, Amonasro, Ramfis)	Conductor, Opera house and orchestra	Label^[1]/Notes
1906-1907	Teresa Chelotti / Elvira Magliulo Vittoria Colombati Orazio Cosentino Giovanni Novelli Alfredo Brondi	Carlo Sabajno Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	LP: Zonophone Cat: 12664/78 Cat: 24017 Cat: 24019/25
1912	Lya Remondini Fanny Anitua Giuseppe Armanini Cesare Formichi Vincenzo Bettoni These roles are also sung by other singers^[2]	Conductor unknown Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro	LP: Columbia D Cat: 4486-4502 LP: Columbia Cat: 5558-5574
1919	Valentina Bartolomasi Rosita Pagani Enrico Trentini Adolfo Pacini Guido Fernandez	Carlo Sabajno Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	LP: Società Nazionale del Grammofono Cat: S 5150-5180
1928	Giannina Arangi-Lombardi Maria Capuana Aroldo Lindi Armando Borgioli Tancredi Pasero	Lorenzo Molajoli Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Arkadia Cat: 78044
1928	Dusolina Giannini Irene Minghini-Cattaneo Aureliano Pertile Giovanni Inghilleri Luigi Manfrini	Carlo Sabajno Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Romophone Cat: 89004-2
1946	Maria Caniglia Ebe Stignani Beniamino Gigli Gino Bechi Tancredi Pasero	Tullio Serafin Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 67487
1949	Herva Nelli Eva Gustavson Richard Tucker Giuseppe Valdengo Norman Scott	Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony Orchestra Robert Shaw Chorale	LP: RCA Victrola VICS-6113(e) CD: RCA Victor Cat: 67893
1951	Maria Callas Oralia Domínguez Mario Del Monaco Giuseppe Taddei Roberto Silva	Oliviero De Fabritiis Palacio de Bellas Artes orchestra and chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 62678
1952	Renata Tebaldi Ebe Stignani Mario Del Monaco Aldo Protti Dario Caselli	Alberto Erede Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus	CD: Decca Cat: 440239 Naxos Historical Cat: 8.110129-30^[3]
1953	Maria Callas Giulietta Simionato Kurt Baum Jess Walters Giulio Neri	John Barbirolli Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus	CD: Testament Cat: SBT2 1355 Myto Cat: MCD00242 Legato Classics Cat: LCD-187-2
1955	Mary Curtis-Verna Oralia Dominguez Umberto Borsò Norman Scott	Franco Capuana La Fenice orchestra and chorus	CD: Remmington Cat: 20027
1955	Maria Callas Fedora Barbieri Richard Tucker Tito Gobbi Giuseppe Modesti	Tullio Serafin Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 563162 CD: Naxos Historical Cat: 8.111240-41^[4]
1955	Zinka Milanov Fedora Barbieri Jussi Björling Leonard Warren Boris Christoff	Jonel Perlea Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus	LP: RCA Victrola Cat: VIC-6119 CD: RCA Red Seal Cat: 8883729002
1956	Antonietta Stella Giulietta Simionato Giuseppe Di Stefano Giangiacomo Guelfi Nicola Zaccaria	Antonino Votto Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Great Opera Performances Cat: GOP66353
1956	Mary Curtis-Verna Franco Corelli Miriam Pirazzini Giangiacomo Guelfi Giulio Neri	Angelo Questa RAI orchestra and chorus	CD: Cetra Cat: 662118
1959	Renata Tebaldi Giulietta Simionato Carlo Bergonzi Cornell MacNeil Arnold van Mill	Herbert von Karajan Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Vienna Friends of Music Society chorus	CD: Decca Cat: DEC 2894670232
1962	Leontyne Price Rita Gorr Jon Vickers Robert Merrill Giorgio Tozzi	Georg Solti Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus	LP: RCA Victor, Cat: LSC-6158 CD: Decca Cat: 4607652 1963 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
1963	Leontyne Price Giulietta Simionato Dimiter Uzunov Ettore Bastianini Walter Kreppel	Lovro von Matačić Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus	3 x LP: Electrecord Cat: ELE 02966 Cat: ELE 02967 Cat: ELE 02968
1966	Leyla Gencer Fiorenza Cossotto Carlo Bergonzi Anselmo Colzani Bonaldo Giaiotti	Franco Capuana Verona Arena orchestra and chorus	CD: Giuseppe di Stefano Cat: GDS 21032
1967	Birgit Nilsson Grace Bumbry Franco Corelli Mario Sereni Bonaldo Giaiotti	Zubin Mehta Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 58645
1970	Leontyne Price Grace Bumbry Plácido Domingo Sherrill Milnes Ruggero Raimondi	Erich Leinsdorf London Symphony Orchestra John Alldis choir	LP: RCA Red Seal Cat: LSC-3275 CD: RCA Red Seal Cat: 88985434852
1972	Martina Arroyo Fiorenza Cossotto Plácido Domingo Piero Cappuccilli Nicolai Ghiaurov	Claudio Abbado Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	Audio CD: Opera d'Oro Cat: 7002
1973	Gwyneth Jones Viorica Cortez Plácido Domingo Eugene Holmes Bonaldo Giaiotti	Riccardo Muti Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus	Audio CD: BellaVoce Cat: BLV 107.209
1974	Montserrat Caballé Fiorenza Cossotto Plácido Domingo Piero Cappuccilli Nicolai Ghiaurov	Riccardo Muti Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Opera House chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 5676132
1976	Leontyne Price Marilyn Horne Plácido Domingo Cornell MacNeil Bonaldo Giaiotti	James Levine Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus	Streaming audio: Met Opera on Demand^[5]
1979	Mirella Freni Agnes Baltsa José Carreras Piero Cappuccilli Ruggero Raimondi	Herbert von Karajan Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Vienna State Opera chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 81877
1982	Julia Varady Stefania Toczyska Luciano Pavarotti Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Matti Salminen	Daniel Barenboim Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra and chorus	CD: Ponto Cat: PO-1028
1983	Katia Ricciarelli Elena Obraztsova Plácido Domingo Leo Nucci Nicolai Ghiaurov	Claudio Abbado Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 4100922
1986	Maria Chiara Ghena Dimitrova Luciano Pavarotti Leo Nucci Paata Burchuladze	Lorin Maazel Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Decca Cat: 417439
1991	Aprile Millo Dolora Zajick Plácido Domingo James Morris Samuel Ramey	James Levine Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus	CD: Sony Cat: 88697527722
1994	Maria Dragoni Barbara Dever Kristján Jóhannsson Mark Rucker Francesco Ellero d'Artegna	Rico Saccani RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra	CD: Naxos Cat: 8660033-34
2001	Cristina Gallardo-Domâs Olga Borodina Vincenzo La Scola Thomas Hampson Matti Salminen	Nikolaus Harnoncourt Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Arnold Schoenberg Chor	CD: Teldec Cat: 85402
2015	Anja Harteros, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tezier, Erwin Schrott	Antonio Pappano, Accademia di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus	CD:Warner Classics Cat:2564610663

Video recordings

Year	Cast (Aida, Amneris, Radamès, Amonasro, Ramfis)	Conductor, Opera house and orchestra	Label^[1]
1961	Gabriella Tucci Giulietta Simionato Mario Del Monaco Aldo Protti Paolo Washington	Franco Capuana NHK Symphony Orchestra (Recorded in Tokyo)	Video Artists Int'l Cat: DVDVAI4420
1966	Leyla Gencer Fiorenza Cossotto Carlo Bergonzi Anselmo Colzani Bonaldo Giaiotti,	Franco Capuana Verona Arena orchestra and chorus (Recorded on 3 August 1966)	Hardy Classic Cat: HCD 4010
1981	Margaret Price Stefania Toczyska Luciano Pavarotti Simon Estes Kurt Rydl	Garcia Navarro San Francisco Opera orchestra and chorus	Kultur International Cat: 3984 22366 2
1986	Maria Chiara Ghena Dimitrova Luciano Pavarotti Juan Pons Nicolai Ghiaurov	Lorin Maazel Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	Image Entertainment Cat: 0014381578522 Arthaus Musik Cat: 100059
1989	Aprile Millo Dolora Zajick Plácido Domingo Sherrill Milnes Paata Burchuladze	James Levine Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus Live recording in October 1988^[6]	Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 00440 073 0019
2004	Norma Fantini Ildikó Komlósi Marco Berti Mark S. Doss Orlin Anastassov	Kazushi Ono Symphony Orchestra and Choir of La Monnaie	Opus Arte Cat: B000FNUDW2
2006	Adina Aaron Kate Aldrich Scott Piper Giuseppe Garra Enrico Iori	Massimiliano Stefanelli Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra (Live recording January 2001)	TDK Cat: DV-AIDDBM
2007	Violeta Urmana Ildikó Komlósi Roberto Alagna Carlo Guelfi Giorgio Giuseppini	Riccardo Chailly Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus (Live recording December 2006)	Decca Cat: 074 3209
2018	Anna Netrebko Anita Rachvelishvili Aleksandrs Antonenko Quinn Kelsey Dmitry Belosselskiy	Nicola Luisotti Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (Live recording 6 October 2018)	Met Opera on Demand

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b Recordings on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
^ ”Aida by Giuseppe Verdi 1912”. operadis-opera-discography.org.uksite. Retrieved 18 August 2018
^ Source: Naxos Catalogue 8.110129-30
^ Source: Naxos Catalogue 8.111240-41
^ Aida (6 March 1976), Met Opera on Demand.
^ According to the booklet accompanying the DVD.

Sources

Gruber, Paul, ed. (2003). The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03444-5.

[Operadis-1] Recordings on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk

[2] ”Aida by Giuseppe Verdi 1912”. operadis-opera-discography.org.uksite. Retrieved 18 August 2018

[3] Source: Naxos Catalogue 8.110129-30

[4] Source: Naxos Catalogue 8.111240-41

[5] Aida (6 March 1976), Met Opera on Demand.

[6] According to the booklet accompanying the DVD.

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