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Lebendige Vergangenheit - Robert Merrill Vol 4 - Arias from Rigoletto, La Traviata, etc

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-10-14

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Otello; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Georges Bi...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Calabrese, Franco; Cehanovsky, George; de los Angeles, Victoria; Lenchner, Paula; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roggero, Margaret; Stevens, Rise [Mez...
Conductors: Bellezza, Vincenzo; Perlea, Jonel; Toscanini, Arturo; Reiner, Fritz; Beecham, Thomas, Sir

The fact that Robert Merrill generally is remembered more for his singing than for his interpretations does in no way reduce his artistic merits. His...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Nan Merriman

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-06-10

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Gioachino Rossini: Otello; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Rigoletto; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Manuel de Fa...
Performers: Merriman, Nan
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Susskind, Walter; Toscanini, Arturo; Monteux, Pierre; Stokowski, Leopold; Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; NBC Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Nan Merriman was born in 1920 in Pittsburgh. She grew up in Los Angeles where she took lessons from Lotte Lehmann. She was singing on...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Verdi, Saint-Saëns, etc / Claramae Turner

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-05-01

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; La forza del destino; Requiem Mass; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda...
Performers: Conley, Eugene; Conner, Nadine; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Moscona, Nicola; Nelli, Herva; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Tibbett, Lawrence; Turrini, Roberto
Conductors: Levin, Sylvan; Toscanini, Arturo; Merola, Gaetano; Herbert, Walter; Cantelli, Guido; Newman, Alfred

The American singer Claramae Turner was born as Claramae Haas in 1920. Her contralto voice was naturally opulent and had what one critic called a...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giuseppe Valdengo Vol 2

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-09-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in masc...
Performers: Assandri, Virginio; Capecchi, Renato; Chabay, Leslie; Elmo, Cloe; Nelli, Herva; Steber, Eleanor; Valdengo, Giuseppe; Vinay, Ramon
Conductors: Basile, Arturo; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Questa, Angelo; Toscanini, Arturo; Cleva, Fausto; Rudolf, Max
Ensemble: ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra; NBC Symphony Orchestra

Giuseppe Valdengo already had a promising career in his homeland, but he truly became famous during his seven years with the Metropolitan Opera, beginning in...continue...

Historic Strauss Interpretations

1 CD / Preiser / 1991-10-01

Works: Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus; Morgenblätter, Op. 279; Wiener Blut, Op. 354; Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437; Indigo und die vierzig Räuber; Perpetuum mobile, Op. 257 "Musikalischer Scherz"; Der...
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Krauss, Clemens; Koussevitzky, Serge; Blech, Leo; Weingartner, Felix; Mengelberg, Willem; Kleiber, Erich; Szell, George; Walter, Bruno; Knappertsbusch, Hans; Toscanini, Art...
Ensemble: ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra