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About the conductor Thomas Schippers

Thomas Schippers (1930-1977) was one of the most brilliant American conductors of the 20th Century but died when he was just consolidating his reputation and moving into his potentially most fruitful phase. He shone in the opera house but was also a superb exponent of orchestral repertoire. Schippers studied at the Julliard and then went to Yale to work with Hindemith. His breakthrough came when he conducted Menotti's The Consul in 1950 which ran for eight months on Broadway. He then conducted in 1951 the premiere of Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors in the first opera commissioned by TV, a famous live NBC telecast. He made his La Scala Milan debut in 1955 and returned in 1961 to conduct Callas in Cherubini's Medea and then in Falla's Atlantida in 1962. In 1966 he inaugurated the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Centre with the world premiere of Barber's Anthony & Cleopatra. In 1959, He went to Moscow with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and in 1963 conducted Die Meistersinger in Bayreuth. Schippers was especially known for his musical directorship of the Festival of Two Words created in 1958 and held annually at Spoleto, Italy. In 1970 he became Music Director of the Cincinatti Symphony but in 1977 Schippers succumbed to lung cancer

CDs and DVDs featuring the conductor Thomas Schippers

CATALOGUE NR: SBT1073  (barcode: 0749677107321)
RECORD LABEL: Testament
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.29

TITLE: Opera Arias
TRACKS: arias by Gluck / Weber / Verdi / Ponchielli / Tchaikovsky / Massenet / Debussy / Menotti. Song Recital.
ORCHESTRA: Philharmonia Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Eileen Farrell      

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CATALOGUE NR: URN22401  (barcode: 8025726224013)
RECORD LABEL: Urania
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 19.99
RELEASE DATE: 04-Jan-2010

COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
TITLE: Don Pasquale - complete
ORCHESTRA: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Fernando Corena   Roberta Peters   Frank Guarrera   Cesare Valletti

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live 11-Feb-1956 in New York

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CATALOGUE NR: 88691909912  (barcode: 0886919099126)
RECORD LABEL: Sony Metropolitan Opera Series
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.55
RELEASE DATE: 06-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
TITLE: L'Elisir d'Amore - complete
ORCHESTRA: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Roberta Peters   Carlo Bergonzi   Frank Guarrera   Fernando Corena

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live 5-Mar-1966

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CATALOGUE NR: GL100586  (barcode: 8712177042098)
RECORD LABEL: Gala
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 9.49
RELEASE DATE: 04-Jan-2002

COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
TITLE: Don Pasquale - complete
TRACKS: Bonus Tracks of Lucia di Lammermoor excerpts.
ORCHESTRA: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers and Silvio Varviso
ARTISTS: Roberta Peters   Fernando Corena   Frank Guarrera   Cesare Valletti

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1956 and 1966 in New York

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CATALOGUE NR: LS4035133  (barcode: 3830025743043)
RECORD LABEL: Living Stage
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 16.33
RELEASE DATE: 04-Feb-2002

COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
TITLE: Il Duca D’alba - complete
ORCHESTRA: Trieste Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Louis Quilico   Wladimiro Ganzarolli   Renato Cioni   Ivana Tosini

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1959

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CATALOGUE NR: MCD00194  (barcode: 8014399501941)
RECORD LABEL: Myto
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 9.95
RELEASE DATE: 11-Sep-2009

COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
TITLE: Il duca d'Alba - complete
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Ivana Tosini   Luigi Quilico   Renato Cioni   Wladimiro Ganzarolli

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live Spoleto 11-Jun-1959

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CATALOGUE NR: 4438712  (barcode: 0028944387124)
RECORD LABEL: Double Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 9.19
RELEASE DATE: 18-Jan-1999

COMPOSER: Georges Bizet
TITLE: Carmen - complete
ORCHESTRA: Suisse Romande Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Joan Sutherland   Mario del Monaco   Tom Krause  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: comes with a unique listening guide taking the listener on a journey through the opera's plot - Penguin Guide 1 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 9667792  (barcode: 5099996677926)
RECORD LABEL: EMI The Home of Opera
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 15.95
RELEASE DATE: 19-Oct-2009

COMPOSER: Giacomo Puccini
TITLE: La Boheme - complete
ORCHESTRA: Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Mirella Freni   Nicolai Gedda   Mariella Adami   Mario Sereni

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 16-page booklet with tracklist and synopsis in English French German and Spanish - third disc is CD-Rom with pdf booklet including original notes and complete libretto in sung language English French and German

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CATALOGUE NR: 88697804632  (barcode: 0886978046321)
RECORD LABEL: Sony Metropolitan Opera Series
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.55
RELEASE DATE: 07-Feb-2011

COMPOSER: Giacomo Puccini
TITLE: La Boheme - complete
ORCHESTRA: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Carlo Bergonzi   Licia Albanese   Mario Sereni   Norman Scott

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 15-Feb-1958

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CATALOGUE NR: VAIDVD4218  (barcode: 0089948421894)
RECORD LABEL: VAI
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 26.04
RELEASE DATE: 26-Jul-2002

COMPOSER: Gian Carlo Menotti
TITLE: The Medium - complete
ORCHESTRA: Symphony Orchestra of Rome Radio Italiana
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Marie Powers   Anna Maria Alberghetti   Beverly Dame   Belva Kibler

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC Black & White / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 80 minutes / Recorded: USA 1950

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CATALOGUE NR: 811136061  (barcode: 0747313336029)
RECORD LABEL: Naxos Historical
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.19
RELEASE DATE: 04-Jan-2011

COMPOSER: Gian Carlo Menotti
TITLE: The Saint of Bleecker Street - complete
TRACKS: The Saint of Bleecker Street. The Unicorn the Gorgon and the Manticore.
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Gabrielle Ruggiero   David Poleri   Gloria Lane   Leon Lishner

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded New York City in Feb/Mar-1955 and New York City in 1957 - Oct-2011 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 8111364  (barcode: 0747313336425)
RECORD LABEL: Naxos Historical
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75
RELEASE DATE: 28-Feb-2011

COMPOSER: Gian Carlo Menotti
TITLE: Amahl and the Night Visitors - complete
TRACKS: Sebastian - Ballet Suite.
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers and Dmitri Mitropoulos
ARTISTS: Rosemary Kuhlmann   Chet Allen   Andrew McKinley   David Aiken

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded in New York City Dec-1951 and Academy of Music Philadelphia 26-Jul-1946 - Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn - Oct-2011 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: LS1111  (barcode: 3830257411161)
RECORD LABEL: Living Stage
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 16.33
RELEASE DATE: 14-Jun-2004

COMPOSER: Gioachino Rossini
TITLE: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - complete
ORCHESTRA: La Scala Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Hermann Prey   Frederica von Stade   Renzo Casellato   Ruggero Raimondi

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 31-Dec-1976

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CATALOGUE NR: 88691909962  (barcode: 0886919099621)
RECORD LABEL: Sony Metropolitan Opera Series
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.55
RELEASE DATE: 06-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
TITLE: Ernani - complete
ORCHESTRA: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Leontyne Price   Cornell MacNeil   Giorgio Tozzi   Carlo Bergonzi

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live 1-Dec-1962

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CATALOGUE NR: GL326  (barcode: 8712177022458)
RECORD LABEL: Gala
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.99

COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
TRACKS: Giovanna D'Arco - Qual v'ha speme? … Sotto una quercia parvemi. I Due Foscari - Prelude Notte! Perpetua notte. La Forza Del Destino - St Petersburg original version 1862 - Qual sangue sparsi orrore! Attila - Qual notte!… Ella in poter del barbaro! Luisa Miller - Oh! Fede negar potessi…Quando le sere al placido. Encore: Lara o l'avello apprestami. Bonus tracks: Aida - Se quel guerrier io fossi .. Celeste Aida Pur ti riveggo.
ORCHESTRA: Groot Omroeporkest and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
CONDUCTOR: Michelangelo Veltri and Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Carlo Bergonzi   Leontyne Price   Robert Merrill  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1973

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CATALOGUE NR: LS4035138  (barcode: 3830025742992)
RECORD LABEL: Living Stage
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 16.33
RELEASE DATE: 11-Mar-2002

COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
TITLE: Luisa Miller - complete
ORCHESTRA: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Montserrat Caballe   Richard Tucker   Sherill Milnes   Giorgio Tozzi

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 17-Feb-1968

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CATALOGUE NR: MDCD0010  (barcode: 3830257900108)
RECORD LABEL: Myto Devotion
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 13.49
RELEASE DATE: 12-Jun-2009

COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
TITLE: I Vespri Siciliani - complete
ORCHESTRA: RAI Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Sherill Milnes   Gianfranco Cecchele   Martina Arroyo   Bonaldo Giaiotti

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded Rome 1970

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CATALOGUE NR: GL309  (barcode: 8712177008452)
RECORD LABEL: Gala
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.99

COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
TITLE: Franco Corelli sings Giuseppe Verdi
TRACKS: I Lombardi - La mia letizia infondere. Ernani - Merce diletti amici… Dell' esilio mel dolore. Macbeth - Ah la paterna mano. La Battaglia Di Legnano - A magnanima e prima / E ver? Sei d'altri. Rigoletto - La donna e mobile. Il Trovatore - Deserto sulla terra / Soli or siamo… Condotta ell'era in ceppi… Mal reggendo / Quale d'armi fragor… Ai mostri monti. La Forza del Destino - O tu che in seno agli angeli. Aida - Celeste Aida. Otello - Esultate.
ORCHESTRA: Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers and Gianandrea Gavazzeni
ARTISTS: Franco Corelli      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Historical recordings 1954 - 1965

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CATALOGUE NR: MDCD0009  (barcode: 3830257900092)
RECORD LABEL: Myto Devotion
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 20.50
RELEASE DATE: 12-Jun-2009

COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
TITLE: Don Carlo - complete
ORCHESTRA: RAI Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Nicolai Ghiaurov   Bruno Prevedi   Piero Cappuccilli   Fiorenza Cossotto

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded Rome 1969

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CATALOGUE NR: 88691909942  (barcode: 0886919099423)
RECORD LABEL: Sony Metropolitan Opera Series
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.55
RELEASE DATE: 06-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
TITLE: Luisa Miller - complete
ORCHESTRA: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Schippers
ARTISTS: Montserrat Caballe   Richard Tucker   Sherill Milnes   Giorgio Tozzi

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 17-Feb-1968

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