tracks b1 baritone vocals [mandarin] Ezio Giordano
tracks b4 baritone vocals [ping] Fernando Corena
tracks a1, a2 baritone vocals [sharpless] Enzo Sordello
tracks b3 bass vocals [timur] Nicola Zaccaria
tracks a2, a7, b1, b2, b5, b6, b8 chorus Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
chorus master Bonaventura Somma
composed by Giacomo Puccini
tracks b conductor Alberto Erede
tracks a conductor Tullio Serafin
tracks a6 mezzo-soprano vocals [suzuki] Fiorenza Cossotto
orchestra Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
tracks a2 to a6, a8 b3, b7 soprano vocals [butterfly / liu] Renata Tebaldi
tracks b5, b8 soprano vocals [turandot] Inge Borkh
tracks b3, b5, b6 tenor vocals [calaf] Mario del Monaco
tracks b4 tenor vocals [pang] Mario Carlin
tracks a1, a3, a8 tenor vocals [pinkerton] Carlo Bergonzi
tracks b4 tenor vocals [pong] Renato Ercolani
Vol 57 of Marshall Cavendish’s “Great Composers and their Music” series. Comes with magazine.
Original Decca recordings date from 1958 (Butterfly) & 1959 (Turandot)