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Les Huguenots discography

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The following is a list of recordings of the opera Les Huguenots, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps), which was premiered in 1836.

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Complete recordings

There are 21 complete (or nearly complete) recordings of Les Huguenots, four of them videos.
KEY: conductor/Marguerite/Valentine/Urbain/Raoul/Nevers/Marcel

  • Allain/Doria/Rinella/Couderc/Fouché/Cambon/Médus – 1953, incomplete – Pleiade
  • Heger/Bak/Cunitz/Köhre/Terkal/Fuchs/Frick – 1955, live in Vienna – Walhall
  • Serafin/Pastori/McKnight/Gardino/Lauri-Volpi/Taddei/Zaccaria – 1955, live in Milan – Bongiovanni
  • Gavazzeni/Sutherland/Simionato/Cossotto/Corelli/Ganzarolli/Ghiaurov – 1962, live in Milan – Fonit Cetra
  • Bonynge/Sutherland/Arroyo/Tourangeau/Vrenios/Cossa/Ghiuselev – 1969 – Decca (see below)
  • Giovaninetti/Sills/Gulín/Creed/Poncet/Jamerson/Díaz – 1969, live in New York, incomplete – Celestial Audio
  • Märzendorfer/Shane/Tarrés/Scovotti/Gedda/Farrés/Díaz – 1971, live in Vienna, incomplete – Opera d’Oro (see below)
  • Savini/Eda-Pierre/Tarrés/Chamorro/Lo Forese/d’Anna/Díaz – 1971, live in Barcelona – Omega
  • Andersson/Shane/Galvany/Marsee/di Giuseppe/Cossa/Plishka – 1975, live in New Orleans – Handelman
  • Gallois/Lebrun/Clarke/Jones-D/Vanzo/Massard/Roy – 1976, live in Paris – Live Opera Heaven
  • Diederich/Raphanel/Pollet/Borst/Leech/Cachemaille/Ghiuselev – 1988, live in Montpellier – Erato (see below)
  • Diederich/Raphanel/Miricioiu/Borst/Kunde/Barrard/Macurdy – 1989 video, Montpellier – Encore
  • Bonynge/Sutherland/Thane/Johnston/Austin/Pringle/Grant – 1990 video, Sydney – Opus Arte (see below)
  • Soltesz/Denning/Peacock/Capasso/Leech/Carlson/Blasius – 1991 video, Berlin – Arthaus (see below)
  • Rota/Barbasini/Ricciarelli/Marrocu/Morino/Meoni/Ghiuselev – 1993, live in Novara – Omega
  • Allemandi/Davidova/Sánchez-AM/Genaux/Giordani/Chaignaud/Prestia – 1999 VIDEO, Bilbao – Encore
  • Queler/Makarina/Stoyanova/Zifchak/Giordani/Boutros/Faria – 2001, live in New York – Premiere Opera
  • Palumbo/Rancatore/Raspagliosi/Allegretta/Mok/Bronikowski/Kang – 2002, live in Martina Franca – Dynamic
  • Lacombe/Massis/Ducret/Sandis/Ragon/Henry/Jatic – 2005, live in Liège – Opera Lovers
  • Botstein/Morley/Deshorties/Lenormand/Spyres/Schroeder/Volpe – 2009, live at Annandale-on-Hudson – ASO (see below)
  • Minkowski/Petersen-M/Delunsch/Lezhneva/Cutler/Lapointe/Varnier – 2011, live in Brussels – House of Opera
  • Arias

    Several late 19th-century singers versed in the genuine Meyerbeerian performance style made acoustic gramophone recordings of arias from Les Huguenots. Many of these early recordings have been remastered and reissued on CD recitals.

    References

    Les Huguenots discography Wikipedia