Meyerbeer, Giacomo > Gedda, Nicolai

Icon: Nicolai Gedda

11 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-03-23

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 189, "Meine Seele rühmt und priest" (by Melchior Hoffmann), BWV 189; Cantata no 55, "Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht," BWV 55; Cantata no 160, "Ich weis...
Performers: Blanc, Ernest; Callas, Maria; Ciccolini, Aldo [Piano]; Clark, Raymond; Downes, Ralph; Dupré, Desmond; Eyron, Jan; Freni, Mirella; Gedda, Nicolai; Halverson, Alan [Organ]; Malcolm, George; Mall...
Conductors: ; Prêtre, Georges; Cluytens, André; Klemperer, Otto; Wangenheim, Volker; Heger, Robert; Bender, Heinrich; Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Galliera, Alceo; Froment, Louis de; Dervaux, Pierre...
Ensemble: ; Balalaika-Ensemble Tschaika; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Orchestra

Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda was a famous opera singer and recitalist. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is said to be the most widely...continue...

Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots / Maerzendorfer, Gedda, Equiluz

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-08-08

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten
Performers: Aichberger, Ewald; Equiluz, Kurt [Tenor Vocal]; Farres, Pedro; Gedda, Nicolai; Illavsky, Ladislav; Neukirch, Harald; Petkov, Dimiter; Rugtvedt, Unni; Schenk, Manfred; Scovotti, Jeanette; Shane, Rita;...
Conductors: Marzendorfer, Ernst

This live broadcast from Vienna in 1971 brings together one of the most outstanding casts ever assembled for this rarely heard opera, a situation due...continue...

Recitals - Marilyn Horne - Arias & Scenes

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2001-10-30

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Guidò Marte i nostri passi, for tenor, chorus & orchestra (insertion aria for Niccolin...
Performers: de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Gedda, Nicolai; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Fisher, John; Lewis, Henry; Franci, Carlo; Schippers, Thomas
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra

These recordings of America's leading mezzo-soprano from the late 1960s and early 1970s show her in the prime of her early career performing some of...continue...

Bizet: Carmen / Herbert von Karajan, Giulietta Simionato

3 CD / Gala / 2001-05-11

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Le Prophète
Performers: Carmeli, Boris; Gedda, Nicolai; Gueden, Hilde [Soprano Vocals]; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Mazzotta, Paolo; Pirino, Antonio; Roux, Michel [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Simionato, Giulietta; Tarre...
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Marzendorfer, Ernst; Lewis, Henry
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Recitals - Marilyn Horne Vol 1

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-08-15

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola
Performers: Gedda, Nicolai; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Fisher, John; Lewis, Henry; Franci, Carlo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Venice Teatro la Fenice Orchestra

Meyerbeer: Le Prophète / Horne, Gedda, Lewis, et al

3 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2000-05-16

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète
Performers: Carmeli, Boris; Gedda, Nicolai; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Hage, Robert Amis el; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Peter, Fritz; Rinaldi, Margherita
Conductors: Lewis, Henry
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

This performance was one of the seminal influences in the Meyerbeer revival, with peerless performances in the two leading roles. Ms. Horne was married to...continue...

Nicolai Gedda Sings Russian and French Arias

1 CD / Gala / 1997-11-18

Works: François-Adrien Boieldieu: La dame blanche; Charles Gounod: Faust; Roméo et Juliette; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Hector Be...
Performers: Gedda, Nicolai; Meyer, Kerstin [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Parsons, Geoffrey
Conductors: Fournet, Jean; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Grevillius, Nils; Marzendorfer, Ernst; Karajan, Herbert von; Prêtre, Georges; Rybrant, Stig

Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots / Marzendorfer, Gedda, Shane, et al

2 CD / Myto Records / 1996-06-30

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
Performers: Diaz, Justino; Gedda, Nicolai; Petkov, Dimiter; Scovotti, Jeanette; Shane, Rita; Tarres, Enriqueta
Conductors: Märzendorfer, Ernst
Ensemble: Austrian Radio Chorus; Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra

"An LP set of this 1971 Vienna performance circulated on the record underground, but only knowledgeable collectors shopped for it...Nicolai Gedda's Raoul was, and is,...continue...