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Ljuba Welitsch

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2009-09-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, J 277; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Aida, opera; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin; Queen of Spades, O...
Performers: Paolis, Alessio de; Tucker, Richard [Tenor Vocal]; Welitsch, Ljuba
Conductors: Reiner, Fritz; Susskind, Walter; Moralt, Rudolf; Krips, Josef; Rudolf, Max
Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; Vienna State Opera Orchestra

For this compilation, Prima Voce has carefully chosen recordings of music covering a number of roles that Viennese, British, and American fans associated with Ljuba...continue...

Prima Voce - Giuseppe Di Stefano sings Verdi & Puccini

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2009-04-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; La traviata; Il Trovatore; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Tosca
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Barbieri, Fedora; Callas, Maria; Canali, Anna Maria; Cehanovsky, George; de los Angeles, Victoria; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Gobbi, Tito; Luise, Melchiorre; Maionica, Silvio [Bass vocals...
Conductors: Votto, Antonino; Serafin, Tullio; Karajan, Herbert von; Cellini, Renato; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; De Sabata, Victor

Giuseppe di Stefano, without any doubt, possessed one of the most beautiful natural tenor voices to be heard during the 20th century. The 1950 recordings...continue...

Prima Voce: Merrill & Björling

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-11-11

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Carmen, opera; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Un ballo ...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]
Conductors: Cellini, Renato; Grevillius, Nils; Fiedler, Arthur

In the early ’50s, the 78 rpm recording of the lovely duet from Bizet's 'Pearl Fishers' sung by Jussi Bjorling and Robert Merrill, colleagues at...continue...

Prima Voce - Hilde Güden

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-09-09

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Idomeneo; Il rè pastore, K 208; Exsultate jub...
Performers: Gulda, Friedrich; Jurinac, Sena; Poell, Alfred; Protti, Aldo [Baritone Vocals]; Reining, Maria; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors: Krips, Josef; Böhm, Karl; Kleiber, Erich; Krauss, Clemens; Erede, Alberto; Black, Stanley

It becomes evident from the first note that Hilde Guden possessed a truly beautiful vocal timbre. Her singing of the various arias from 'Don Giovanni',...continue...

Prima Voce - Tito Gobbi

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-03-11

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Ve...
Performers: Gobbi, Tito; Monti, Nicola
Conductors: Berrettoni, Umberto; Robertson, James; Erede, Alberto; Santini, Gabriele; Braithwaite, Warwick
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra

For this compilation, Prima Voce has chosen early 78 rpm recordings that capture Tito Gobbi’s voice at its most lyrical, persuasive, and attractive. Very few...continue...

Prima Voce - Charles Kullman - European Recordings 1931-1938

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2007-03-13

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; La forza del destino; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin; Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier; Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Richard Wagn...
Performers: Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Grossmann, Walter; Illiard, Ellice; Kullman, Charles
Conductors: Orthmann, Erich; Zweig, Fritz; Schmalstich, Clemens; Goehr, Walter; Müller, Johannes; Dobrindt, Otto; Hauke, Ernst; Kunneke, Eduard; Ruth, Ludwig
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Orchestra

Complete European Columbia recordings of tenor Charles Kullman, made1931-38. Like so many other fine tenors of the period, Kullman was expected to record items that...continue...

Prima Voce - Herbert Ernst Groh in Opera

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-10-10

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; Adolphe Ad...
Performers: Alpar, Gitta; Bettendorf, Emmy; Cebotari, Maria; Groh, Herbert Ernst; Husch, Gerhard
Conductors: Heger, Robert; Dobrindt, Otto; Weissmann, Frieder

The voice of Herbert Ernst Groh (1906-1982) attracted attention at an early age, and he specialized in operetta from the outset. His career was dominated...continue...

Prima Voce - Lucrezia Bori in Opera & Song

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-09-12

Works: Louis Varney: L' amour Mouillé, operetta; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Jules Massenet: Manon; Giacomo Puccini: La Rondine; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Giuseppe...
Performers: Bori, Lucrezia; Copeland, George; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Tibbett, Lawrence
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.; Black, Frank; Shilkret, Nathaniel
Ensemble: ; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Prima Voce - Alessandro Bonci

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-05-09

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Don Pasquale; Lucrezia Borgia; Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Christop...
Performers: Bonci, Alessandro

Alessandro Bonci was one of a group of Italian tenors active at the end of the nineteenth and early in the twentieth centuries who exemplified...continue...

Prima Voce - Great Singers Vol 2 (1903-1939)

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-02-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Ernani; Traditional: Ma Lisette; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Meyerbeer: L'Africaine; Les Huguenots; George Frederic...
Performers: Björling, Jussi; Calvé, Emma; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cottone, Salvatore; de Luca, Giuseppe; Ebert, Harry; Farrar, Geraldine; Favero, Mafalda; Flagstad, Kirsten; Garden, Mary; Gluck, Alma; Ivo...
Conductors: Blech, Leo; Barbirolli, John, Sir
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

...An utterly splendid collection, winners every one...a tour from one superlative to another. Gramophone. Very popular selection of arias and featuring the greatest singers recorded...continue...

Prima Voce - César Vezzani

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-09-13

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Die Afrikanerin; Le Prophète; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Charles Gounod: La Reine de Saba; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Da...
Performers: Vezzani, Cesar

Prima Voce - Enrico Caruso - Opera Vol 3

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-08-09

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Gioachino Rossini: Stabat mater; Petite Messe solennelle; Carlos Go...
Performers: Abott, Bessie; Alda, Frances; Amato, Pasquale; Bada, Angelo; Caruso, Enrico; Cottone, Salvatore; de Luca, Giuseppe; Destinn, Emmy; Egener, Minnie; Farrar, Geraldine [Soprano Vocals]; Galli-Curci, Ame...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Setti, Giulio

"...The [Nimbus] method brings me face to face, far more consistently than other transers have done, with Caruso as I like to hear him and...continue...

Surround Yourself with Enrico Caruso

1 DVD Audio / Nimbus Records / 2005-06-14

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; La Favorita; Dom Sébastien; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lammermoor; Il Duca d'Alba; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; G...
Performers: Alda, Frances; Amato, Pasquale; Ancona, Mario; Bada, Angelo; Caruso, Enrico; de Luca, Giuseppe; Destinn, Emmy; Farrar, Geraldine [Soprano Vocals]; Gadski, Johanna; Gluck, Alma; Homer, Louise; Jacoby,...

Prima Voce - Gerhard Hüsch

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-02-01

Works: Albert Lortzing: Der Wildschütz, opera; Undine; Zar und Zimmermann; Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, opera; Königskinder, opera; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Siegfried Och...
Performers: Bettendorf, Emmy; Hüsch, Gerhard; Lemnitz, Tiana; Rosvaenge, Helge; Strienz, Wilhelm
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Muller, Hans Udo; Dobrindt, Otto; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno

German baritone Gerhard Husch was a consummate artist whose international career never quite achieved the exposure it deserved, despite glowing reviews. In some ways a...continue...

Prima Voce - Mafalda Favero - Recordings 1929-46

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-01-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Pietro Mascagni: Lodoletta; L'Amico Fritz; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Ugo Bottacchiari: L' Ombra, opera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mo...
Performers: Ruotolo, Ines; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Vocals], Mafalda Favero [Soprano; Ziliani, Alessandro
Conductors: Antonicelli, Giuseppe; Sabino, Antonio; Ghione, Franco

Prima Voce - Lev Sibiryakov

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-08-03

Works: Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; Mikhail Glinka: A Life for the Tsar; Anton Rubinstein: The demon; Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomizhsky: Rusalka, opera; Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Field-Marshal D...
Performers: Sibiriakov, Lev

Prima Voce - Emmy Destinn

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-03-02

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin; Richard Strauss: Final Scene; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Bedrich Smetana: Dalibor, B 133/T 96; Overture to The Kiss (Hu...
Performers: Destinn, Emmy; Jorn, Karl
Conductors: Seidler-Winkler, Bruno

The Golden Age of Singing Vol 4 - 1930-1950

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-10-02

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Rienzi; Tannhäuser; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; R...
Performers: Baccaloni, Salvatore; Borgonovo, Luigi; Cebotari, Maria; Gay, Maria; Gigli, Beniamino; Ivogün, Maria; Kipnis, Alexander; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo; Lehmann, Lotte; Lemnitz, Tiana; Lorenz, Max; Melchi...
Conductors: Schmalstich, Clemens; Barbirolli, John; Melichar, Alois; Orthmann, Erich; Zweig, Fritz; Heger, Robert

This special 2 CD collection is the final volume in a mini-series presenting fifty years of great voices on record. All the material contained here...continue...

The Golden Age of Singing Vol 3 - 1920-1930

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-03-06

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Entführung aus ...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Bori, Lucrezia; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Fleta, Miguel; Fugere, Lucien; Galeffi, Carlo; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Garden, Mary; Gigli, Beniamino; Granforte, ...
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Gelabert, Maestro; Gurlitt, Manfred; Setti, Giulio; Zweig, Fritz; Blech, Leo; Sabajno, Carlo; Weissmann, Frieder; Robinson, Stanford; Cloez, Gustave; Coates, Albert

This special 2-CD collection represents the third volume in a mini-series presenting 50 years of great voices on record. With all tracks culled from the...continue...

Prima Voce Vol 2 - Treasury of Opera - Historic Recordings

5 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-11-14

Works: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Turandot; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night; Sadko; Snow Maiden; The Tsar's Bri...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Barone, Clement; Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Björling, Jussi; Bori, Lucrezia; Bronskaya, Yevgeniya; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; de Luca, Giuseppe; Farrar, Geraldine [So...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Romani, Romano; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ormandy, Eugene; Cloez, Gustave; Bourdon, Rosario; Albergoni, Angelo; Dobrindt, Otto; Pelletier, Wilfred; Coppola, Piero; Ghione, Franco; Barb...

The Golden Age of Singing Vol 2 - 1910-1920

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-08-15

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: La figlia del reggimento; La Favorita; Lucia di Lammermoor; Linda di Chamounix; Carlos Gomes: Lo Schiavo, opera; Jules Massenet: Manon; Thaïs; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Ru...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Barrientos, Maria; Battistini, Mattia; Bronskaya, Yevgeniya; Caruso, Enrico; Clement, Edmond; de Luca, Giuseppe; Destinn, Emmy; Farrar, Geraldine [Soprano Vocals]; Galli-Curci, Ameli...
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Pasternack, Josef A.; Romani, Romano

The Golden Age of Singing Vol 1 - 1900-1910

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-04-11

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades, Op. 68; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Aida, opera; Ernani; Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; Simon B...
Performers: Ancona, Mario; Anselmi, Giuseppe; Barili, Alfredo; Battistini, Mattia; Bonci, Alessandro; Boninsegna, Celestina; Boronat, Olimpia; Burzio, Eugenia; Butt, Clara, Dame; Calvé, Emma; Caruso, Enri...
Conductors: Sabaino

Celebrating the golden era of operatic singing, this special collection (the first of four volumes), culled from the highly acclaimed Prima Voce series, highlights the...continue...

Prima Voce - Riccardo Stracciari

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-03-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Ernani; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Nabucco; Otello; Charles Gounod: Faust; Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Gia...
Performers: Semeonoff, Boris; Stracciari, Riccardo

Issued as part of Nimbus' acclaimed "Pria Voce" series, the contents of this CD capture Stracciari's baritone at the peak of his powers and are...continue...

The Prima Voce Treasury of Opera Vol 1

6 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-02-15

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; L'Arlesiana; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Die Hugenoten; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Attila; Un ballo in masche...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Battistini, Mattia; Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Devries, David; Flagstad, Kirsten; Fleta, Miguel; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Ga...
Conductors: Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ghione, Franco; Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.; Messner, J.; Reibold, Bruno; Sabajno, Carlo; Polacco, Giorgio; Albergoni, Angelo; Grevillius, Nils; Cloez, Gustave; Setti, G...

Prima Voce - Alma Gluck

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-01-11

Works: Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Benjamin Godard: Jocelyn, Op 100; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jules Massenet: Élégie; Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d'Argent; Jean-Philippe Rameau: ...
Performers: Barone, Clement; Bourdon, Rosario; Chotzinoff, Samuel; Gluck, Alma; Lapitino, Francis J.; Rattay, Howard; Zimbalist, Efrem [Violin]
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Herbert, Victor; Hageman, Richard; Rogers, Walter B.

As in the similar case of John McCormack, it would be hard to exaggerate the extent of Gluck's popularity with the American public. It was...continue...

Prima Voce - Elisabeth Rethberg

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-10-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Otello; Un ballo in maschera; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Lohengri...
Performers: Rethberg, Elisabeth

Prima Voce - Highlights / Amato, Anderson, Battistini, et al

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-09-14

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Mikhail G...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Anderson, Marian; Battistini, Mattia; Chaliapin, Feodor; de Luca, Giuseppe; Farrar, Geraldine [Soprano Vocals]; Fleta, Miguel; Journet, Marcel; Lapitino, Francis J.; Lehmann, Lotte; ...
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Sabajno, Carlo; Collingwood, Lawrance; Shaw, Robert; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Messner, J.; Cordone, Mario

This newest release from Nimbus' acclaimed "Prima Voce" series investigates the early history of the recording industry, which would hold little interest for us today...continue...

Prima Voce - Caruso - The Early Recordings

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-05-18

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Mattinata; Pagliacci, opera; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Rigoletto; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico; Cottone, Salvatore; Leoncavallo, Ruggero

To mark the 100th release in the critically acclaimed Prima Voce series, Nimbus presents a selection of rare Caruso recordings focusing on the early recordings....continue...

Prima Voce - Helge Roswaenge - Beethoven, Massenet, et al

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-04-20

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon; Adolphe Adam: Le postillon de Lonjumeau; Jules Massenet: Manon; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Mikhail Glinka: A Life for the Tsar;...
Performers: Perras, Margherita; Rosvaenge, Helge
Conductors: Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Schmidt, Franz; Moralt, Rudolf
Ensemble: ; Berlin State Opera Chorus; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Born in Copenhagen in 1897, Helge Roswaenge was one of the most popular and beloved tenors of this century. In German-speaking areas he is so...continue...

Prima Voce - Pasquale Amato - Leoncavallo, Bizet, et al

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-02-23

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Aida, opera; Un ballo in maschera; La traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Me...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Gadski, Johanna; Hempel, Frieda; Journet, Marcel; Lapitino, Francis J.
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.

Amato was born into the Italy of verismo. He was a young teenager when 'Pagliacci' had its premiere in 1892, and began his own career...continue...

Prima Voce - Marcel Journet

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1998-08-25

Works: Jules Massenet: Cléopâtre, opera in 4 acts; Adolphe Adam: Le chalet; Charles Gounod: La Reine de Saba; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Robert le Diable; Jacques Offenbach: Gaît&e...
Performers: Journet, Marcel

"A great example of singing from the Golden Age." -Classic CD "Heroism, plasticity, magnanimity, power: behold in them the voice, the art and the soul...continue...

Prima Voce - Rosa Ponselle Vol 3

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Ernani; Il Trovatore; La forza del destino; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Ruggero Leoncavallo:...
Performers: Lapitino, Francis J.; Ponselle, Rosa
Conductors: Romani, Romano; Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.
Ensemble: ; Orchestra

Prima Voce - Björling, Caruso, Gigli

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Mattinata; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Otello; La traviata; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Giacomo Pu...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Gigli, Beniamino

Long before Pavarotti, Domingo, and Carreras caught the public imagination there were three legendary tenors who became household names in their own lifetime. They were...continue...

Prima Voce - Rosa Ponselle Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Manon Lescaut; Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Il Trovatore; Aida, opera; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Paolo Tos...
Performers: Baker, Elsie; Martinelli, Giovanni; Ponselle, Rosa; Romani, Romano
Conductors: Romani, Romano; Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Vilhelm Herold

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-12-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, op...
Performers: Herold, Vilhelm

Prima Voce - Antonio Cortis

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il trovatore; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Jules Massenet: Manon; Werther; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Iris;...
Performers: Cortis, Antonio
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Prima Voce - Ezio Pinza

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; I vespri siciliani; Don Carlos; Aida, opera; Attila; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Fromental Halévy: La juive; Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Norma,...
Performers: Gigli, Beniamino; Giorgini, Aristodemo; Martinelli, Giovanni; Pinza, Ezio; Rethberg, Elisabeth
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio

Opera Arias, V1 (1909-1938)

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Norma, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberfl...
Performers: Anderson, Marian; Caruso, Enrico; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Muzio, Claudia; Ponselle, Rosa; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Schumann-Hei...

Divas Arias, Vol1 (1906-35) / various artists

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Sebastián Yradier: La Calasera; Wolfgang...
Performers: Galli-Curci, Amelita; Hempel, Frieda; Koshetz, Nina; Lehmann, Lotte; Melba, Nellie; Muzio, Claudia; Nemeth, Maria; Norena, Eide; Patti, Adelina; Ponselle, Rosa; Tetrazzini, Luisa; Turner, Eva [Sopran...

Prima Voce - Tenors 1904-1937 / Caruso, Schipa, McCormack

3 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Manon; Werther; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Dom Sébastien; Il Duca d'Alba; Lucia di Lammermoor; Don Pasq...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Sammarco, Giuseppe Mario; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Schneider, Edward
Conductors: Antonicelli, Giuseppe

Operatic Arias (1905-1941) / various artists

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Le jongleur de Notre-Dame; Il re di Lahore; Paolo Tosti: Au temps du grand roi; Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Otello; Ernani; I due Foscari; Rigoletto; ...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Ancona, Mario; Battistini, Mattia; de Luca, Giuseppe; Fugere, Lucien; Galeffi, Carlo; Giraldoni, Eugenio; Gorin, Igor; Husch, Gerhard; Magini-Coletti, Antonio; Maurel, Victor; Petri,...
Conductors: Tours, Frank; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Weissmann, Frieder; Reibold, Bruno

Prima Voce - Claudia Muzio

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Arturo Buzzi-Peccia: Colombetta; Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Otello; Il trovatore; La traviata; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; L...
Performers: Merli, Francesco; Muzio, Claudia
Conductors: Molajoli, Lorenzo; Refice, Licinio

Prima Voce - Beniamino Gigli Vol 1 1918-1924

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Enrico Cannio: O surdato 'nnammurato; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Charles Gounod: Faust; Pietro Mascagni: Iris...
Performers: Gigli, Beniamino
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo; Pasternack, Josef; Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Giuseppe Di Luca

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani; Il trovatore; La traviata; Don Carlos; Rigoletto; Enrico De Leva: Pastorale; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Romilli: ...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Gigli, Beniamino
Conductors: Setti, Giulio

Prima Voce - Titta Ruffo

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Otello; Nabucco; Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Falstaff; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Zazà,...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico; Gigli, Beniamino; Ruffo, Titta
Conductors: Sabaino; Pasternack, Josef A.; Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Beniamino Gigli Vol 2 1925-1940

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lammermoor; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La Bohème; Tosca; Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; La traviata; Rigoletto; Ambroise Thoma...
Performers: de Luca, Giuseppe; Gigli, Beniamino

Prima Voce - Tibbett in Opera

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Otello; Simon Boccanegra; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere ...
Performers: Bampton, Rose; Dreeben, Herman; Martinelli, Giovanni; Massue, Nicolas; Nicholson, Robert; Tibbett, Lawrence; Warren, Leonard [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Stokowski, Leopold; Smallens, Alexander; Pelletier, Wilfred

Prima Voce - John McCormack in Opera

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, opera; La fille du régiment; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Rigoletto; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Les pêcheurs de perles; L...
Performers: Bori, Lucrezia; McCormack, John; Sammarco, Mario; Schneider, Edwin

McCormack was the only tenor to rival Caruso in his time, although his voice was of a very different type. He is still considered one...continue...

Operatic Arias - Chaliapin

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Mephistopheles' song of the flea; Anton Rubinstein: The Demon (Der Dämon), opera; Persian Songs (12), Op. 34; Anonymous: Mashenka; Down the Petersky; Johannes B...
Performers: Bazilevsky, Jean; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cozette, Michael; Godzinsky, G.; Kline, Olive; Newton, Ivor; Rabinowitch, Max; Schmidt; Sharpe, Cedric; Vocals], Margherita Carosio [Soprano
Conductors: Pitt, Percy; Pasternack, Josef A.; Byng, George W.; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Harrison, Julius; Bourdon, Rosario; Bellezza, Vincenzo; Steimann, Max; Coates, Albert; ; Collingwood, Lawrance; Büsser,...
Ensemble: ; Balalaika Orchestra

Prima Voce - Eidé Norena

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Die Entführung aus dem Ser...
Performers: Noréna, Eidé
Conductors: Défosse, Henri; Coppola, Piero; Messner, Joseph