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Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4; Wagner: Overture: The Flying Dutchman - LSO

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2012-05-08

Works: Robert Schumann: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 "Rhenish"; Symphony no 4 in D minor, Op. 120; Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Conductors: Butt, Yondani
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Recording information: Abbey Road Studios (10/29/2011); Henry Wood Hall, London (10/29/2011); Abbey Road Studios (11/02/2011-11/03/2011); Henry Wood Hall, London (11/02/2011-11/03/2011)....continue...

Wagner: Orchestral highlights from Tristan und Isolde & Tannhäuser

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2012-03-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Das Rheingold; Götterdämmerung
Conductors: Butt, Yondani
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Recording information: Henry Wood Hall, London (06/09/2011/06/10/2011)....continue...

Prima Voce - Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Z 626; Wagner / Jones, Flagstad, Schwarzkopf, et al

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2009-03-10

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626; Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Clark, Raymond; Flagstad, Kirsten; Hemsley, Thomas; Lloyd, David; Mandikian, Arda; Pollak, Anna; Rex, Sheila; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
Conductors: Jones, Geraint; Furtwängler, Wilhelm
Ensemble: ; Mermaid Singers

'Dido & Aeneas' is an opera by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate. It is based on a story from...continue...

Prima Voce - Igor Gorin Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-08-12

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Jules Massenet: Hérodiade; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; ...
Performers: Baller, Adolph; Gorin, Igor
Conductors: Voorhees, Donald; Dragon, Carmen

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 - John Charles Thomas in Opera & Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-08-08

Works: Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Otello; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Tito Mattei: Non è ver; Stefano...
Performers: Hollister, Carroll; Thomas, John Charles
Conductors: Tours, Frank; Finston, Nathaniel; Shilkret, Nathaniel
Ensemble: ; Orchestra

'If I had to choose the four greatest voices I've heard, I would list Thomas along with Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle, and Ezio Pinza.'-Frank Chapman,...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 - Emilio de Gogorza

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2005-06-14

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Jules Massenet: Il re di Lahore; Hérodiade, opera in 4 acts; Emile Paladilhe: Patrie; Mandolinata, serenade for voice & piano; Wolfgang Amadeus ...
Performers: Eames, Emma; Gogorza, Emilio de; Sembrich, Marcella

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 - 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 - 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 - 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

Prima Voce - Fernando de Lucia

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2004-03-02

Works: Paolo Tosti: Ideale, for voice & piano (or orchestra); Jules Massenet: Werther; Manon; Umberto Giordano: Fedora; Charles Gounod: Faust; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, oper...
Performers: Boninsegna, Celestina; Galvany, Maria; Huguet, Josefina; Lucia, Fernando de; Pini-Corsi, Antonio

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

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 - Heinrich Schlusnus in Opera & Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-02-06

Works: Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Charles Gounod: Faust; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Aimé Maillart: Les dragons de Villars; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Do...
Performers: Leider, Frida; Schlusnus, Heinrich; Strauss, Richard

This historic recording contains some songs by Richard Strauss, with the composer himself accompanying at the piano....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 - 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 - 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 - Sigrid Onegin Vol 1 - Donizetti, Verdi, et al

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-03-23

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Pastorale, song for voice & piano; Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Götterdämmerung; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Un ballo in...
Performers: Kniestadt, Georg; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno

Sigrid Onegin had the very unusual voice of a 'contralto d'agilita', a rare and distinct sound different from the more common mezzo-soprano voice. After the...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 - Great Singers in Moscow

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Anton Rubinstein: Nero; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades, Op. 68; The oprichnik; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Snow Maiden; May Night; Sadko; Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla; A Life for the ...
Performers: Bronskaya, Yevgeniya; Chaliapin, Feodor; Damayev, Vasily; Figner, Nikolay; Kastorsky, Vladimir; Klement'yev, Lev; Nezhdanova, Antonina; ovich, Aleksandr; Petrova-Zvantseva, Vera; Shevelyov, Nikolay; ...
Conductors: Arkadiev, I. P.

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

Grand Piano - Ignaz Jan Paderewski

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-09-01

Works: Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244; Grand Bravura Fantasia on Paganini's "La Campanella", S 420; Soirée de Vienne 6 (after Schubert); Robert Schumann: Nachtstücke (4)...

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 - 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...

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 - 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 - 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 - 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...

Prima Voce - Tauber in Opera

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Wilhelm Kienzl: Der Evangelimann, Op. 45; Bartered Bride; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La...
Performers: Bettendorf, Emmy; Lehmann, Lotte; Tauber, Richard
Conductors: Besl, Carl; ; Szell, George; Weigert, Hermann; Hauke, Ernst
Ensemble: ; Berlin Playhouse Orchestra; Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Chorus; Berlin State Opera Orchestra

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 - 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 - 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 - Lehmann in Opera

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon; Der Freischütz, J 277; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni; Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Wind...
Performers: Bohnen, Michael; Lehmann, Lotte; Schlusnus, Heinrich

Lotte Lehmann had one of the richest careers in vocal history, being equally acclaimed in opera and lieder, and equally beloved by critics and the...continue...

Prima Voce - Kirsten Flagstad

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde; Götterdämmerung; Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon, J 306; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Ah, Perfido!, ...
Performers: Flagstad, Kirsten
Conductors: Lange, Hans; Ormandy, Eugene; McArthur, Edwin
Ensemble: Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; San Francisco Opera Orchestra

Over 76 minutes of opera arias from the German repertoire by the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the 20th century. Give this disc a spin and...continue...

For Weddings / Kevin Bowyer

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174); Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt," (Hunt Ca...
Performers: Bowyer, Kevin