The album, recorded with renowned pianist Vincenzo Scalera, features 17 songs composed by Puccini between 1875 and 1919, including the world premiere recording of the recently rediscovered Melanconia.

This umpteenth studio recording of Giacomo Puccini’s tearjerker is built around Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, but it’s her co-star, Jonas Kaufmann, who really makes the listener sit up and take ...

It was over 30 years ago that the Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu first sang Puccini’s consumptive heroine Mimi at Covent Garden. Reinforced a couple of years later by her deeply affecting Violetta ...

‘LA RONDINE” (The Swallow) is one of opera’s oddest birds. Puccini’s rarely staged 1917 opera about a courtesan torn between love and security will never replace masterworks such as “La Boheme” in the ...

(La) Bohème, 'Bohemian Life', Movements: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì Various Artists Angela Gheorghiu, Soprano Giacomo Puccini, Composer (La) Bohème, 'Bohemian Life', Movements: O soave fanciulla Giacomo ...

Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska will sing the title role in Puccini's Tosca on April 8 and 12, replacing Angela Gheorghiu, who is ill. She will also sing the final performance on April 15, as was ...

È l'uccellino (Ninna-Nanna) Angela Gheorghiu, Soprano Vincenzo Scalera, Piano Terra e mare Angela Gheorghiu, Soprano Vincenzo Scalera, Piano Canto d'anime Angela Gheorghiu, Soprano Vincenzo Scalera, ...

When Angela Gheorghiu recently performed some of the arias from her new CD, Puccini, the London crowd gave her the rapturous reception that they famously used to give Maria Callas. The Romanian still ...

Angela Gheorghiu: Live From La Scala ($16.99, EMI Classics). Although Angela Gheorghiu is best known as a denizen of the operatic stage, her new CD - a live recording of a program from last year at ...