# Gianni Schicchi discography

This is a list of the recordings of Gianni Schicchi, the third of a group of three one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini collectively known as Il trittico; the other operas are Il tabarro and Suor Angelica. The three were premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on 14 December 1918, and for the next three years were always played together. After 1921, however, Puccini agreed that the operas could be performed separately. Gianni Schicchi became the most popular and most frequently performed of the three, often paired with other works such as Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnole and Richard Strauss's Salome.
Despite its popularity as a stage work, Gianni Schicchi was not available as a recording until after the Second World War, a neglect described by a Gramophone reviewer as "extraordinary". The first issued recording, an early LP release in 1950, was from a live performance at the Met on 12 March 1949. It was followed, also in 1950, by a recording from a Radio Turin broadcast; thereafter, recordings were issued at regular intervals on long-playing and, later, compact disc formats. The first VHS (videotape) was in 1983, since when several more DVD versions have been released. While the majority of recordings are based on the original Italian libretto, three German-language versions were issued in the 1970s. Opera stars who have featured in recordings include Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Victoria de los Ángeles, Renata Tebaldi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Plácido Domingo and Angela Gheorghiu.

## Recordings

Many of the listed recordings have been issued under several labels. For audio recordings, only the first LP and the first CD issues are shown. For videos, the first VHS and DVD issues are shown. Unofficial recordings and pirate versions are not shown.

### Audio

| Year | Cast (Gianni Schicchi, Lauretta, Rinuccio) | Conductor, Opera house and orchestra | Label |
| 1949 | Italo Tajo Licia Albanese Giuseppe Di Stefano | Giuseppe Antonicelli Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus (recorded on 12 Mar) | LP: HOPE Cat: 228 CD: GOP Cat: 830 |
| 1950 | Giuseppe Taddei Grete Rappsardi Giuseppe Savio | Alfredo Simonetto RAI National Symphony Orchestra | LP: Cetra Cat: LPC 50028 CD: Preiser Records Cat: 90074 |
| 1956 | Renato Capecchi Bruna Rizzoli Agostino Lazzari | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Teatro di San Carlo orchestra & chorus | LP: Philips Cat: 6540 032 CD: Philips Collectors Cat: 442 106-2 |
| 1958 | Fernando Corena Laurel Hurley Charles Anthony | Dimitri Mitropoulos Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus (recorded on 8 Feb) | CD: Omega Opera Cat: 1131 |
| | Tito Gobbi Victoria de los Ángeles Carlo Del Monte | Gabriele Santini Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra & chorus | LP: HMV Cat: 1726 CD: EMI Cat: 7 64165-2 |
| 1962 | Fernando Corena Renata Tebaldi Agostino Lazzari | Lamberto Gardelli Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | LP: Decca Cat: 236-238 CD: Decca Grand Opera Cat: 411 665-2 |
| 1969 | Giuseppe Taddei Adriane Martino Luciano Saldari | Oliviero De Fabritiis Teatro La Fenice orchestra & chorus | CD: Mondo Musica Cat: 10391 |
| 1972 | Konrad Rupf Anna Tomowa-Sintow Valentin Teodorian | Herbert Kegel Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig (sung in German) | LP: Eterna Cat: 826 296 CD: Berlin Classics Cat: 0020882BC |
| 1973 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Elke Schary Claes H. Ahnsjö | Wolfgang Sawallisch Bavarian State Opera orchestra & chorus (recorded on 7 Dec; sung in German) | CD: Orfeo Cat: C 546 001 B |
| 1975 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Gerti Zeumer Maria von Ilosvay | Alberto Erede WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (sung in German) | LP: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cat: F 666.205 |
| 1976 | Tito Gobbi Ileana Cotrubaş Plácido Domingo | Lorin Maazel London Symphony Orchestra | LP: CBS Masterworks Cat: 76563 CD: CBS Cat: M3K 79312 |
| 1979 | Walter Berry Sona Ghazarian Yordy Ramiro | Gerd Albrecht Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus (recorded on 11 Feb) | CD: Orfeo Cat: C 768092 D |
| | Renato Capecchi Angela Bello Douglas Ahlstedt | Hans Vonk Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (recorded at Circustheater) | CD: Bella Voce Cat: 107.406 |
| 1982 | György Melis Magda Kalmár Denés Gulyás | János Ferencsik Hungarian State Opera orchestra & chorus | LP: Hungaroton Cat: 12541 CD: Hungaroton Cat: 12541-2 |
| 1986 | Rolando Panerai Helen Donath Peter Seiffert | Giuseppe Patanè Munich Radio Orchestra | LP: Eurodisc Cat: 208 404 CD: Eurodisc/RCA Cat: 258 494 |
| 1991 | Leo Nucci Mirella Freni Roberto Alagna | Bruno Bartoletti Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | CD: Decca Cat: 436 261-2 |
| 1993 | Eduard Tumagian Miriam Gauci Yordy Ramiro | Alexander Rahbari Orchestre Symphonique de la RTBF | CD: Discovery International Cat: 920119 |
| 1998 | José van Dam Angela Gheorghiu Roberto Alagna | Antonio Pappano London Symphony Orchestra | CD: EMI Cat: 5 56587-2 |
| 2002 | Alberto Rinaldi Tatiana Lisnic Stefano Secco | Alexander Rahbari Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga | CD: Naxos Cat: 8.660111 |

### Video

| Year | Cast (Gianni Schicchi, Lauretta, Rinuccio) | Conductor, Opera house and orchestra | Label |
| 1983 | Juan Pons Cecilia Gasdia Yuri Marusin | Gianandrea Gavazzeni Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus | VHS: Castle Cat: CV 2057 DVD: Warner Classics Cat: 5046-70943-2 |
| 1993 | Charles Damsel Melody Johnson Robert Brubaker | Paul Nadler Metropolitan Opera House & Orchestra | VHS: D'Alessio Productions OCLC: 30444516 |
| 2004 | Alessandro Corbelli Sally Matthews Massimo Giordano | Vladimir Jurowski London Philharmonic Orchestra (recorded at Glyndebourne Festival Opera) | DVD: Opus Arte Cat: OA 0918 |
| 2007 | Alberto Mastromarino Amarilli Nizza Andrea Giovannini | Julian Reynolds Orchestra della Fondazione Toscanini | DVD: TDK Cat: |
| 2008 | Leo Nucci Nino Machaidze Vittorio Grigolo | Riccardo Chailly Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus | DVD: Encore Cat: 3220 |
| 2010 | Juan Pons Cecilia Gasdia Yuri Marusin | Gianandrea Gavazzeni Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus | DVD: Warner Classics Cat: 5046709432 |