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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 - 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

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 - Lilli Lehmann

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-05-10

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; D...
Performers: Helbig, Hedwig; Lehmann, Lilli

Because of the superb quality and volume of her voice, German operatic soprano Lilli Lehmann became famous in the Wagnarian roles, but she was also...continue...

Prima Voce - Vladimir Kastorsky

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-11-02

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Charles Gounod: Faust; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades, Op. 68; Mazeppa; Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla; O gentle autum...
Performers: Kastorsky, Vladimir

Born in Russia in 1871, Vladimir Kastorsky became a leading bass at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, famous especially for singing the leads in...continue...

Prima Voce - Treasures of the St. Petersburg Museum

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-09-07

Works: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser;...

Prima Voce - Leo Slezak, tenor

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2003-10-07

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; François-Adrien Boieldieu: La dame blanche; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Hugenoten; Le Prophète; Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: La muette de Portici; L...
Performers: Slezak, Leo

Prima Voce - Maria Barrientos (1884-1946)

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2003-09-03

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriag...
Performers: Barrientos, Maria; Gordon, Jeanne; Hackett, Charles Francis; Stracciari, Riccardo
Conductors: Polacco, Giorgio

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...

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; Björling, Jussi; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Devries, David; Flagstad, Kirsten; Fleta, Miguel; Galli-Curci, Amelit...
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 - 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 - 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 - Tetrazzini Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1998-03-17

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; La sonnambula, opera; Félicien David: La perle du Brésil; Gaetano Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix; Paolo Tosti: Romanze (3); Gioachino Rossini: Semirami...
Performers: Campanini, Cleofonte; Oesterreicher, Walter; Pitt, Percy; Tetrazzini, Luisa
Conductors: Rogers, Walter B.; Pitt, Percy

In his note to this second volume of Tetrazzini recordings on Prima Voce, Nigel Douglas describes her voice as "a fireworks display and a tightrope...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 - Caruso

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Manon; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Manon Lescaut; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Dom Sébastien; Il Duca d'Alba; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La forza del de...
Performers: Caruso, Enrico

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 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 - Caruso in Opera Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Macbeth; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; La Favorita; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Giaco...
Performers: Alda, Frances; Butterworth, Wally; Caruso, Enrico; Melba, Nellie

Prima Voce - Lauritz Melchior

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried; Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde; Die Walküre; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Götterdämmerung; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Giacomo Meyerb...
Performers: Flagstad, Kirsten; Lehmann, Lotte; Leider, Frieda; Melchior, Lauritz
Conductors: Coates, Albert; Barbirolli, John, Sir; Walter, Bruno; Ormandy, Eugene; McArthur, Edwin
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; New Symphony Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; San Francisco Opera Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Prima Voce - Martinelli Vol 2 1913-1923

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème; Tosca; Madama Butterfly; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Un ballo in maschera; Il trovatore; Don Carlos; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Ruggero Leoncaval...
Performers: de Luca, Giuseppe; Journet, Marcel; Mardones, José; Martinelli, Giovanni

Prima Voce - Nezhdanova in Opera & Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Edvard Grieg: Peer Gyn...
Performers: Masetti, U.; Nezhdanova, Antonina
Conductors: Arkadiev, I. P.

"Antonina Nezhdanova's singing is too important and enjoyable to ignore...Now that Nimbus has given her recording their royal treatment, vocal enthusiasts have no more excuses...continue...

Prima Voce - Galli-Curci

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Manon Lescaut; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Vincenzo...
Performers: Berenguer, Manuel; de Luca, Giuseppe; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Lapitino, Francis J.; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Ernestine Schumann-Heink

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; Luigi Arditi: Leggero invisible "Bolero"; John Joseph Becker: Frühlingszeit; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Götter...
Performers: Schumann-Heink, Ernestine; Witherspoon, Herbert
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario

Prima Voce - Maria Ivogün

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Henry Bishop: Comedy of errors; George Frederick Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Lucia di Lammermoor; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Sivigl...
Performers: Ivogün, Maria; Raucheisen, Michael
Conductors: Blech, Leo
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Prima Voce - Great Singers at the Mariinsky Theatre

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Stanislaw Moniuszko: Halka; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Requiem Mass; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24; Queen of Spades, Op. 68; Mikhail Glinka: A Li...
Performers: Boronat, Olimpia; Bronskaya, Eugenia; Karakash, Mikhail; Kastorsky, Vladimir; Katulskaja, Elena; Kovalenko, Maria; Labinsky, Andrej; Lipkowska, Lydia Jakovlevna; Nezhdanova, Antonina; Popello-Davidov...

Prima Voce - Frieda Hempel

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La traviata; Ernani; Un ballo in maschera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (...
Performers: Amato, Pasquale; Hempel, Frieda; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Vries,

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

Prima Voce - Eames & Plançon

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable; L'Étoile du Nord; Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Roméo et Juliette; Hector Berlioz: La d...
Performers: Eames, Emma; Gorgoza, Emilio de; Homer, Louise; Plançon, Pol; Sembrich, Marcella

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

Prima Voce - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Norma, opera; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Jules Massenet: Werther; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La Bohème; Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; La Fanciulla del West...
Performers: Borgonovo, Luigi; Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Setti, Giulio; Ghione, Franco; Cordone, Mario
Ensemble: ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Orchestra

Prima Voce - Björling

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-10-03

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il trovatore; Aida, opera; Requiem Mass; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La Fanciulla del West; La Bohème; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, op...
Performers: Björling, Jussi
Conductors: Grevillius, Nils
Ensemble: Orchestra; Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra