EREDE, ALBERTO

The conductor Alberto Erede (1908-2001) was well known in both Italy and Britain, and had conducted at Glyndebourne in 1938-39. He was musical director of the short-lived but most enterprising New London Opera Company at the Cambridge Theatre in the late 1940s. He was then hired by the Metropolitan Opera in New York between 1950 and 1954 and became Generalmusikdirektor at the Deutsche Opera am Rhein from 1958 to 1962. Erede also conducted Lohengrin at Bayreuth in 1968. He recorded extensively, both complete operas and as accompanist to singers and instrumentalists. He was much admired for his excellent training of young singers and was a great believer in ensemble work.

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BIZET, G.: Pecheurs de Perles (Les) (excerpts) / GOUNOD, C.-F.: Mireille (excerpts) (Micheau, Erede) (1953)	9.80306
DEL MONACO, Mario: Italian Opera Arias for Tenor (1955)	9.80001
DONIZETTI: Favorita (La) (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) (1955)	9.80043-45
FAMOUS OPERATIC CHORUSES (Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome) (1955)	9.80047
MASCAGNI, P.: Cavalleria rusticana / LEONCAVALLO, R.: Pagliacci (Del Monaco, E. Nicolai, Protti, Ghione, Erede) (1953-1954)	9.80433-34
Opera Arias (Bass): Arie, Raphael - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, N. / GLINKA, M.I. / TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I. / BORODIN, A. (Russian Operatic Arias) (1953)	9.80440
Opera Arias (Tenor): Del Monaco, Mario - VERDI, G. / GIORDANO, U. / ZANDONAI, R. / MASSENET, J. / BIZET, G. / CATALANI, A. / DONIZETTI, G. (1956)	9.80554
OPERA FAVOURITES (Opera Australia) (NTSC)	OAF4020D
PUCCINI, G.: Tabarro (Il) (Gobbi, Mas, Prandelli) (1955)	8.111307
PUCCINI: Boheme (La) (Tebaldi) (1951)	8.110252-53
PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly (Tebaldi) (1951)	8.110254-55
SIEPI, Cesare: Great Operatic Arias (1955)	9.80002
VERDI, G.: Rigoletto (Del Monaco, Gueden, Protti, Erede) (1954)	9.80390-91
VERDI, G.: Trovatore (Il) (Del Monaco, Tebaldi, Erede) (1956)	9.80421-23
VERDI: Aida (Tebaldi, del Monaco) (1952)	8.110129-30
Vocal Recital: Corena, Fernando - CIMAROSA, D. / DONIZETTI, G. / ROSSINI, G. / MOZART, W.A. (1954-1955)	9.80402
Vocal Recital: Del Monaco, Mario - LEONCAVALLO, R. / VERDI, G. / PUCCINI, G. / HALEVY, J.E. (1953-1954)	9.80383
Vocal Recital: Tebaldi, Renata - MOZART, W.A. / CILEA, F. / CATALANI, A. / MASCAGNI, P. / ROSSINI, G. / REFICE, L. (1955)	9.80219
Vocal Recital: Tebaldi, Renata / Del Monaco, Mario - VERDI, G / PUCCINI, G. (1952, 1954)	9.80735