Festival of the Primadonnas

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	Die Fledermaus - Die Fledermaus, Act II: Czardas
	Die Fledermaus - Die Fledermaus, Act II: Duet: Dieser Anstand, so manierlich
	Der Zigeunerbaron - Der Zigeunerbaron, Act II: Wer uns getraut
	Der Zigeunerbaron - Der Zigeunerbaron, Act I: O habet acht!
	Wiener Blut - Wiener Blut, Act II: Ich war ein echtes Wiener Blut
	Der Karneval in Rom - Der Karneval in Rom: O, wie ist dass Leben schon
	Der Opernball (The Opera Ball), Op. 40 - Der Opernball (The Opera Ball), Op. 40, Act III: Im chambre separee
	Die Kaiserin - Die Kaiserin: Du mein Schonbrunn
	Boccaccio - Boccaccio: Florenz hat schone Frauen
	Grafin Mariza (Countess Mariza) - Grafin Mariza (Countess Mariza), Act I: Hore ich Zigeunergeigen
	Die ungarische Hochzeit - Die ungarische Hochzeit: Spiel' mir das Lied von Gluck und Treu
	Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) - Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), Act II: Es lebt' eine Vilja
	Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) - Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), Act I: Damenwahl! - Ballsirenen Walzer
	Fruhlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op. 410 - Fruhlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op. 410 (bonus track)

Album Summary

Donizetti, Gaetano : Lucia di Lammermoor

Boito, Arrigo : Mefistofele

Puccini, Giacomo : Tosca

Puccini, Giacomo : Turandot

Bellini, Vincenzo : Norma, opera

Gounod, Charles : Faust

Offenbach, Jacques : Gaîté Parisienne

Verdi, Giuseppe : La traviata

Verdi, Giuseppe : Otello

Verdi, Giuseppe : Aida, opera

Puccini, Giacomo : Gianni Schicchi, opera

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Alma grande e nobil core, KV 578

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Fidelio, Op. 72

Thomas, Ambroise : Mignon

Leoncavallo, Ruggero : Pagliacci, opera

Wagner, Richard : Tannhäuser

Wagner, Richard : The Flying Dutchman

Strauss, Richard : Der Rosenkavalier

Strauss, Richard : Final Scene

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Die Fledermaus (The Bat), ballet music from Act 2 of the operetta (RV 503-7)

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Der Zigeunerbaron

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood), operetta (arr. & edited by A. Muller)

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Der Carneval in Rom (Carnival in Rome), operetta (RV 502)

Heuberger, Richard : Der Opernball

Fall, Leo : Die Kaiserin, operetta

Suppé, Franz von : Boccaccio, operetta

Kálmán, Imre : Gräfin Maritza

Dostal, Nico : Die Ungarische Hochzeit, operetta

Lehár, Franz : The Merry Widow

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Fruhlingsstimmen, Op. 410

Performers

Maria Callas (Soprano)
Renata Tebaldi (Soprano)
Ljuba Welitsch (Soprano)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
Maria Cebotari (Soprano)
Rita Streich (Soprano)
Astrid Varnay (Soprano)
Maria Stader (Soprano)
Erika Koth (Voice)
Erna Berger (Soprano)
Elisabeth Grummer (Voice)
Anneliese Rothenberger (Soprano)
Josef Metternich (Baritone)
Annelies Kupper (Voice)
Irmgard Seefried (Soprano)
Anny Schlemm (Soprano)
Rudolf Schock (Tenor)
Nicolai Gedda (Tenor)
Liselotte Losch (Soprano)
Peter Anders (Tenor)
Herbert Groh (Tenor)
Sari Barabas (Soprano)
Martha M�dl (Mezzo Soprano)
Sonja Sch�ner (Voice)

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Works Details

Donizetti, Gaetano : Lucia di Lammermoor :: Sparsa è di rose... Ardon gl'icensi

Performer: Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor: Tullio Serafin
Running Time: 7 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1835

Boito, Arrigo : Mefistofele :: L'altra notte in fondo al mare

Performer: Renata Tebaldi (Soprano)
Conductor: Tullio Serafin
Notes: Composition written: 1868-75.
Running Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1868-1875

Puccini, Giacomo : Tosca :: Vissi D'Arte

Performer: Ljuba Welitsch (Soprano)
Conductor: Max Rudolf
Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1900

Puccini, Giacomo : Turandot :: Tu che di gel sei cinta

Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
Conductor: Karl Böhm
Notes: Composition written: 1926.
Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1926

Bellini, Vincenzo : Norma, opera :: Casta Diva

Performer: Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor: Tullio Serafin
Running Time: 11 min. 55 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1831

Gounod, Charles : Faust :: Air de Bijoux

Performer: Maria Cebotari (Soprano)
Conductor: Felix Prohaska
Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1856-1859

Offenbach, Jacques : Gaîté Parisienne :: Phöbus stolz im Sonnenwagen

Performer: Rita Streich (Soprano)
Conductor: Wilhelm Schuchter
Running Time: 5 min. 49 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta

Verdi, Giuseppe : La traviata :: E Strano, è strano... Ah! Forse è lui... Follie!... Follie!

Performer: Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor: Gabriele Santini
Notes: Composition written: 1853.
Running Time: 9 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1853

Verdi, Giuseppe : Otello :: Ave Maria, piena di grazia, eletta

Performer: Renata Tebaldi (Soprano)
Conductor: Alberto Erede
Running Time: 4 min. 31 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1887

Verdi, Giuseppe : Aida, opera :: Ritorna Vincitor!

Performer: Astrid Varnay (Soprano)
Conductor: Herman Weigert
Notes: Composition written: 1871.
Running Time: 7 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1871

Puccini, Giacomo : Gianni Schicchi, opera :: Oh mio babbino caro

Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
Conductor: Herbert Karajan
Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1918

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492 :: E Susanna non vien... Dove sono

Performer: Maria Cebotari (Soprano)
Conductor: Josef Krips
Running Time: 6 min. 21 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Written: 1786

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Alma grande e nobil core, KV 578

Performer: Maria Stader (Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Lehmann
Running Time: 4 min. 20 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Written: 1789

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni :: Don Ottavio son morta

Performer: Ljuba Welitsch (Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Running Time: 6 min. 37 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1787

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 :: O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn

Performer: Erika Koth (Voice)
Conductor: Arthur Gruber
Running Time: 5 min. 13 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1791

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 :: Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen

Performer: Erna Berger (Soprano)
Conductor: Arthur Gruber
Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1791

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Fidelio, Op. 72 :: Abscheulicher, wo eilst du hin?

Performer: Martha Mödl (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Notes: Composition written: 1804-06.
Running Time: 7 min. 59 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1804-1806

Thomas, Ambroise : Mignon :: Kennst du das Land

Performer: Elisabeth Grummer (Voice)
Conductor: Wilhelm Schuchter
Running Time: 4 min. 38 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1866

Leoncavallo, Ruggero : Pagliacci, opera :: Wie flammte auf sein Auge

Performer: Anneliese Rothenberger (Soprano)
Conductor: Wilhelm Schuchter
Running Time: 4 min. 58 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1892

Wagner, Richard : Tannhäuser :: Dich, teure Halle, grüá ich wieder

Performer: Astrid Varnay (Soprano)
Conductor: Georges Sebastian
Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1843-1865

Wagner, Richard : The Flying Dutchman :: Wie aus der Ferne... Versank ich jetzt

Performers: Josef Metternich (Baritone); Annelies Kupper (Voice)
Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay
Notes: Composition written: 1841.
Running Time: 5 min. 56 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1841

Strauss, Richard : Der Rosenkavalier :: Herr, Gott im Himmel (Überreichung der silbernen Rose)

Performers: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano); Irmgard Seefried (Soprano)
Conductor: Herbert Karajan
Running Time: 11 min. 17 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1909-1910

Strauss, Richard : Final Scene :: Schlussszene der Salome

Performer: Ljuba Welitsch (Soprano)
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Running Time: 16 min. 43 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1903-1905

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Die Fledermaus (The Bat), ballet music from Act 2 of the operetta (RV 503-7) :: Czardas

Performer: Ljuba Welitsch (Soprano)
Conductor: Max Rudolf
Running Time: 4 min. 6 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Ballet
Written: 1874

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Die Fledermaus (The Bat), ballet music from Act 2 of the operetta (RV 503-7) :: Dieser Anstand so mani

Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
Conductor: Otto Ackermann
Running Time: 5 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Ballet
Written: 1874

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Der Zigeunerbaron :: Wer uns getraut

Performers: Anny Schlemm (Soprano); Rudolf Schock (Tenor)
Conductor: Wilhelm Schuchter
Notes: Composition written: 10/24/1885.
Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 10/24/1885

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Der Zigeunerbaron :: O habet acht

Performer: Ljuba Welitsch (Soprano)
Conductor: Max Rudolf
Notes: Composition written: 10/24/1885.
Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 10/24/1885

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood), operetta (arr. & edited by A. Müller) :: Ich war ein echtes Wiener Blut

Performers: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano); Nicolai Gedda (Tenor)
Conductor: Otto Ackermann
Running Time: 4 min. 28 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1899

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Der Carneval in Rom (Carnival in Rome), operetta (RV 502) :: O, wie ist das Leben schön

Performer: Liselotte Losch (Soprano)
Conductor: Franz Marszalek
Notes: Composition written: 1873.
Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1873

Heuberger, Richard : Der Opernball :: Komm mit mir in's Chambre Separée

Performers: Peter Anders (Tenor); Rita Streich (Soprano)
Conductor: Franz Marszalek
Running Time: 3 min. 6 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1897

Fall, Leo : Die Kaiserin, operetta :: Du mein Schönbrunn

Conductor: Franz Marszalek
Notes: Composition written: Germany.
Running Time: 2 min. 38 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta

Franz von Suppé (1819 - 1895) : Boccaccio, operetta :: Florenz hat schöne Frauen

Performers: Herbert Groh (Tenor); Sonja Schöner (Voice)
Conductor: Otto Dobrindt
Notes: Composition written: 1879.
Running Time: 4 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1879

Emmerich Kálmán (1882 - 1953) : Gräfin Maritza :: Höre ich Zigeunergeigen

Performer: Sari Barabas (Soprano)
Conductor: Wilhelm Schuchter
Notes: Composition written: 1924.
Running Time: 3 min. 2 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1924

Dostal, Nico : Die Ungarische Hochzeit, operetta :: Spiel' mir das Lied von Glück und Treu

Performer: Anneliese Rothenberger (Soprano)
Conductor: Helmut Zacharias
Running Time: 6 min. 26 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Opera/Operetta

Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948) : The Merry Widow :: Vilja-Lied

Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
Conductor: Otto Ackermann
Running Time: 5 min. 20 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1905

Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948) : The Merry Widow :: "Damenwahl" und Ballsirenen Walzer

Performers: Nicolai Gedda (Tenor); Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
Conductor: Otto Ackermann
Running Time: 9 min. 26 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1905

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410

Performer: Maria Cebotari (Soprano)
Conductor: Robert Heger
Running Time: 5 min. 47 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Waltz
Written: 1883

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