Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome consists today of many organizations, including a well-known symphony orchestra, a conservatory and drama school, an institute for musicological research, a museum of musical instruments, and even an experimental film studio. However, none of these is as old as the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Chorus, which dates back to the last two decades of the 16th century. It has been active in one form or another almost ever since and is one of the world's oldest performing organizations of any kind. Its creation was the work of a group of choristers and choir directors who came together, elected Palestrina as their president, and formed a new choir that had both artistic and charitable aims. Although this placed the group in a rivalry with the better-known Sistine Chapel Choir, Pope Sixto V blessed their efforts with a papal bull in 1595. The choir has operated ever since except for a brief interruption during the Napoleonic Wars. Its association with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra was formalized in 1895.
The mission of the present-day choir extends far beyond sacred music. The choir has performed in operatic productions and participated in opera recordings, and it joins the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in major choral-orchestral repertory. It is headquartered at the Parco della Musica in Rome, a handsome structure designed by Renzo Piano, and it performs regular concerts there and elsewhere. Some of the choir's recordings have involved opera, and it has issued a pair of albums of Verdi choruses on its own. The Accademia di Santa Cecilia Chorus numbers about 90 singers, and its director, as with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, is Antonio Pappano. In 2018, he led the chorus and orchestra in a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish") to mark the 100th anniversary of Bernstein's birth. The choir joined Pappano and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam in a new recording of Berlioz's Requiem, Op. 5, in 2021.
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Verdi : Aida
Opera - Released by Warner Classics on Oct 2, 2015
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Puccini: Turandot
Inge Borkh, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1955
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A Hymn For The World
Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Norbert Balatsch, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 1997
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Fauré / Duruflé: Requiem
Cecilia Bartoli, Bryn Terfel, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 1998
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Puccini: Tosca
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, George London, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Apr 30, 1991
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Cherubini: Requiem Mass in C Minor
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Maria Giulini
Classical - Released by Profil on Oct 7, 2016
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Dame Joan Sutherland, Renato Cioni, Cornell MacNeil, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Nino Sanzogno
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1962
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Renata Tebaldi. The Early Years
Renata Tebaldi, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Alberto Erede
Opera Extracts - Released by Decca Music Group Limited on Jun 19, 2015
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Sacred Arias (Remastered)
Andrea Bocelli, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Nov 9, 1999
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Puccini: La Bohème
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Leonard Bernstein
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 1988
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Verdi: Choeurs d'opera
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Gino Nucci, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Franci
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1964
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Puccini: Tosca
Lorin Maazel, Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jul 13, 1967
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Highlights
Renata Tebaldi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1958
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Voices from Heaven
Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 1998
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Verdi: Aida
Renata Tebaldi, Ebe Stignani, Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1952
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Verdi : Otello
Alberto Erede, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Full Operas - Released by Decca Music Group Limited on Dec 8, 1954
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Puccini: Tosca (highlights)
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, George London, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1959
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Puccini: La Bohème
Renata Tebaldi, Giacinto Prandelli, Hilde Güden, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1951
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Recorded 1952-1956)
Opera - Released by Urania Records on Jan 1, 1997
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Campora, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1951
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Verdi : Rigoletto
Alberto Erede, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Full Operas - Released by Decca Music Group Limited on Jan 1, 1954
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo