Cavalleria rusticana discography

This is a discography of Cavalleria rusticana, an opera by Pietro Mascagni. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 17 May 1890. There have been over 100 full-length recordings of Cavalleria rusticana published since it was first recorded in Germany in 1909. Mascagni himself has conducted the opera in two recordings, the best-known of which is the 1940 EMI recording made to mark the 50th anniversary of the opera's premiere. The performance by the La Scala orchestra and chorus with Lina Bruna Rasa as Santuzza and Beniamino Gigli as Turiddu also has a spoken introduction by Mascagni. Originally released as an LP, it is available on CD under several historical recording labels, including Naxos.

Recordings

Year	Cast (Santuzza, Turiddu, Alfio, Lucia)	Conductor, Opera house and orchestra	Label
1927	May Blyth Heddle Nash Harold Williams Justine Griffiths	Aylmer Buesst British National Opera Company	CD: Divine Art Historic Sound Cat: DDH 27805
1929-1930	Delia Sanzio Giovanni Breviario Piero Biasini Olga de Franco	Carlo Sabajno Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Arkadia Cat: 78046
1930	Giannina Arangi-Lombardi Antonio Melandri Gino Lulli Ida Mannarini	Lorenzo Molajoli Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi	CD: Preiser Records Cat: 90042
1934	Iva Pacetti Beniamino Gigli Mario Basiola Giuseppe Nessi	Leone Paci Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Opera D'Oro Cat: OPD-9009
1950	Giulietta Simionato Achille Braschi Carlo Tagliabue Liliana Pellegrino	Arturo Basile Cetra orchestra and chorus	LP: Cetra Records Cat:
1951	Valentina Petrova Eddy Ruhl Ivan Petrov Lidia Malani	Erasmo Ghiglia Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra and chorus	LP: Remington Records Cat: 199-74
1953	Zinka Milanov Jussi Björling Robert Merrill Carol Smith	Renato Cellini RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra	LP: RCA Victrola Cat: VIC-6044 CD: RCA Red Seal Cat: 888750544926
	Margaret Harshaw Richard Tucker Frank Guarrera Thelma Votipka	Fausto Cleva Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus	LP: Columbia Cat: SL-123 CD: Sony Cat:
	Maria Callas Giuseppe Di Stefano Rolando Panerai Ebe Ticozzi	Tullio Serafin Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: EMI CD Cat: 7243 5 56287 2 5
1954	Elena Nicolai Mario del Monaco Aldo Protti Anna Maria Anelli	Franco Ghione Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi	LP: Decca Cat: ACL 199-200; CD: Great Opera Performances Cat: GOP 66314
1957	Renata Tebaldi Jussi Björling Ettore Bastianini Rina Corsi	Alberto Erede Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra and chorus	LP: RCA Victor Cat: LSC-6059 CD: Decca Cat: 458 2242
1958	Caterina Mancini Gianni Poggi Aldo Protti Aurora Cattelani	Ugo Rápalo Teatro di San Carlo orchestra and chorus	LP: Philips Cat: SABL 135-7
1960	Giulietta Simionato Mario del Monaco Cornell MacNeil Anna di Stasio	Tullio Serafin Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus	CD: Decca Cat: 467 484-2
1962	Victoria de los Ángeles Franco Corelli Mario Sereni Corinna Vozza	Gabriele Santini Rome Opera orchestra and chorus	CD: EMI CD Cat: 72438-19968-2-9
1965	Fiorenza Cossotto Carlo Bergonzi Giangiacomo Guelfi Maria Gracia Allegri	Herbert von Karajan Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 419 257-2
1966	Elena Souliotis Mario del Monaco Tito Gobbi Anna di Stasio	Silvio Varviso Orchestra e Coro di Roma	LP: Decca Cat:
1976	Julia Varady Luciano Pavarotti Piero Cappuccilli Ida Bormida	Gianandrea Gavazzeni National Philharmonic Orchestra London Voices	CD: Decca Classics Cat: 00289 414 5902
1978	Renata Scotto Plácido Domingo Pablo Elvira Jean Kraft	James Levine National Philharmonic Orchestra	LP: RCA Red Seal Cat: CRL1-3091 CD: RCA Red Seal Cat: 7432139500-2
1979	Montserrat Caballé José Carreras Matteo Manuguerra Astrid Varnay	Riccardo Muti Philharmonia Orchestra	CD: EMI CD Cat: CMS 7 63650 2
1981	Martina Arroyo Franco Bonisolli Bernd Weikl Juliana Falk	Lamberto Gardelli Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra	CD: Eurodisc Cat:
1983	Elena Obraztsova Plácido Domingo Renato Bruson Fedora Barbieri	Georges Prêtre Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus	CD: Philips Cat: 416 137-2
1989	Agnes Baltsa Plácido Domingo Juan Pons Vera Baniewicz	Giuseppe Sinopoli Philharmonia Orchestra	CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: CD 429 568-2
1990	Jessye Norman Giuseppe Giacomini Dmitri Hvorostovsky Rosa Laghezza	Semyon Bychkov Orchestre de Paris	CD: Philips Cat: 432 105-2
1992	Stefka Evstatieva Giacomo Aragall Eduard Tumagian Alzbeta Michalková	Alexander Rahbari Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Choir	CD: Naxos Cat: 8 660022
1997	Nelly Miricioiu Dennis O'Neill Phillip Joll Elizabeth Bainbridge	David Parry London Philharmonic Orchestra Geoffrey Mitchell Choir	CD: Chandos Cat: CHAN 3004
2020	Ezgi Kutlu Aldo Di Toro Audun Iversen Cheryl Studer	Oksana Lyniv Graz Philharmonic Orchestra Oper Graz Chorus	CD: Oehms Classics Cat: OC 987
2020	Melody Moore Brian Jagde Lester Lynch Elisabetta Fiorillo	Marek Janowski Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra MDR Leipzig Radio Choir	CD: Pentatone Cat: PTC 5186772
2020	Anita Rachvelishvili Piero Pretti Luca Salsi Ronnita Miller	Riccardo Muti Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus	CD: CSO Resound Cat: CSOR 901 2201

Further reading

For extensive annotated discographies of Cavalleria rusticana, see:

• Flury, Roger (2001). Pietro Mascagni - A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29662-6
• Mascagni.org. Cavalleria rusticana - Recorded Performances