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Close Encounters with Great Singers - Giuseppe di Stefano1 CD / Video Artists International / 2011-06-30 Works: Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Francesco Cilèa: L'Arlesiana; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Paolo Tosti: Non t'amo più; Ideale, ...Performers: Callas, Maria; de los Angeles, Victoria; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Moser, Edoardo Conductors: Merola, Gaetano; Erede, Alberto; Cellini, Renato; Votto, Antonino; De Sabata, Victor; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Guarino, G.M. ![]() Hommage à Bidu Sayao1 CD / Cembal d'amour / 2009-10-03 Works: Spoken Word: Conductor Donald Voorhees introduces Bidú Sayao; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Giacomo Pucc...Performers: Sayao, Bidu [Soprano Vocals]; Voorhees, Donald Conductors: Voorhees, Donald; Merola, Gaetano; Stopak, Joseph; Breisach, Paul; Barlow, Howard Considered by many music and opera lovers as one of the greatest lyric sopranos of all times, Bidu Sayao had a legendary career which was...continue... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Verdi, Saint-Saëns, etc / Claramae Turner1 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 - Robert Weede1 CD / Preiser / 2006-11-07 Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Don Carlos; Otello; Falstaff; La forza del destino; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Georges B...Performers: Albanese, Licia; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Weede, Robert Conductors: Rescigno, Nicola; Kirtz, Karl; Merola, Gaetano; Sebastian, Georges After winning the Caruso Memorial Prize, Robert Weede was awarded a scholarship that enabled him to continue his studies under Oscar Anselmi in Milan. In...continue... ![]() Kirsten Flagstad Vol 3 - Live Performances 1948-19573 CD / Simax / 2006-10-25 Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; The Flying Dutchman; Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Wesendonck Lieder; Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs, AV 150; Befreit, Op. 39 no 4;...Performers: Flagstad, Kirsten; Svanholm, Set [Tenor Vocals]; Ursuleac, Viorica Conductors: Kleiber, Erich; Merola, Gaetano; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Wallenstein, Alfred; Walter, Bruno; Jones, Geraint; Sebastian, Georges; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Hye-Knudsen, Johan; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Buenos Aires Teatro Colón Orchestra; Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Mermaid Orchestra; Metropol... ![]() Lebendige Vergangenheit - Leonard Warren Vol 41 CD / Preiser / 2006-06-01 Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Otello; Falstaff; Ernani; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Amilcare Ponc...Performers: Barbieri, Fedora; Baum, Kurt; Bjorling, Jussi; Christoff, Boris; Clabassi, Plinio [Bass Vocal]; de los Angeles, Victoria; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roman, Stella; Wa... Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Cellini, Renato; Perlea, Jonel; Bellezza, Vincenzo; Merola, Gaetano Ensemble: Members of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (Members); Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra Leonard Warren (1911-1960), is still a shimmering beacon of the operatic art, a role model to whom so many are compared. During his brief career...continue... ![]() Kirsten Flagstad - Live in Concert / Melchior1 CD / Video Artists International / 2006-03-14 Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90; Götterdämmerung; Richard Strauss: Befreit, Op. 39 no 4; Allerseelen, Op. 10 no 8; Cäcilie; Christoph Willibald G...Performers: Flagstad, Kirsten; Mollner, Niels; Svanholm, Set [Tenor Vocals] Conductors: Merola, Gaetano; Hye-Knudsen, Johan Ensemble: Danish National Radio Choir; Danish State Radio Orchestra; San Francisco Opera Orchestra This recording, made from broadcast transcriptions, features Flagstad's majestic voice in all its glory, principally in the music of Wagner. Her vocalism can best be...continue... ![]() San Francisco Opera Gems Volume 2 / Merola, et al3 CD / Guild / 2005-02-01 Works: Fromental Halévy: La juive; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Richard Strauss: Der Ros...Performers: Albanese, Licia; Alvary, Lorenzo; Boerner, Charlotte; Conner, Nadine; Flagstad, Kirsten; Garris, John; Gigli, Beniamino; Harrell, Mack; Howell, John; Jobin, Raoul; Kullman, Charles; Lehmann, Lotte; M... Conductors: Merola, Gaetano; Adler, Kurt Herbert; Sebastian, Georges Ensemble: San Francisco Opera Chorus; San Francisco Opera Orchestra ![]() San Francisco Opera Gems Vol 1 - Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, etc3 CD / Guild / 2003-08-01 Works: Spoken Word: Broadcast Commentary; Jules Massenet: Manon; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo i...Performers: Alvary, Lorenzo; Björling, Jussi; Bonnelli, Richard; Brownlee, John; Cehanovsky, George; Flagstad, Kirsten; Jobin, Raoul; Lawrence, Marjorie; Lehmann, Lotte; Melchior, Lauritz; Paolis, Alessio d... Conductors: Merola, Gaetano; Leinsdorf, Erich; Papi, Gennaro; Reiner, Fritz ![]() Renata Tebaldi - The Birth of a Legend1 CD / Fono / 2002-05-07 Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco; Requiem Mass; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626; Gioachino Rossini: Mosè in Egitto; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele...Performers: Barbieri, Fedora; Bergonzi, Carlo; Elmo, Cloe; Gardino, Jolanda; Malipiero, Giovanni; Panerai, Rolando; Pasero, Tancredi; Prandelli, Giacinto; Siepi, Cesare; Tebaldi, Renata Conductors: Simonetto, Alfredo; Böhm, Karl; Cantelli, Guido; Toscanini, Arturo; Merola, Gaetano Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra; San Francisco Opera Association Orchestra ![]() Dorothy Warenskjold - A Treasury of Operatic Heroines1 CD / Cambria / 1999-01-01 Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, J 277; Friedrich von Flotow: Die letzte Rose (as interpolated into "Martha") (a.k.a. "The Last Rose of Summer"); Giac...Performers: Warenskjold, Dorothy Conductors: Merola, Gaetano; Willson, Meredith; Dragon, Carmen; Abravanel, Maurice; Cleva, Fausto; Black, Frank; Monteux, Pierre; Szenkar, Eugen; Fiedler, Arthur ![]() Bidu Sayao Rarities1 CD / Video Artists International / 1998-08-25 Works: Brazilian Traditional: A casinha pequenina (The Tiny Little House); Alberto Costa: Canto da saudade (Song of Longing); Cisnes (Swans); O luar da minha terra (The Moonlight of My Homeland); Barrozo Ne...Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Sayao, Bidu [Soprano Vocals]; Tajo, Italo Conductors: Merola, Gaetano "...Sayao is a coloratura soprano with a difference: she may not give quite so effortless an impression in passages of agility...but she has more temperament...continue... ![]() When Opera Reached the Airwaves: The Great Coloraturas
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