Merola, Gaetano

Close Encounters with Great Singers - Giuseppe di Stefano

1 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 Sayao

1 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 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 - Robert Weede

1 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 1948-1957

3 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 4

1 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 / Melchior

1 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 al

3 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, etc

3 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 Legend

1 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 Heroines

1 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 Rarities

1 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

1 CD / Traditions Alive / 1996-01-03

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Lucia di Lammermoor; Linda di Chamounix; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Die Zauberfl&ou...
Performers: Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Ludwig, Walther; Pagliughi, Lina; Pons, Lily; Robin, Mado; Tagliabue, Carlo; Vocals], Margherita Carosio [Soprano
Conductors: Tansini, Ugo; Serafin, Tullio; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Walter, Bruno; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Cellini, Renato; Merola, Gaetano; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Simonetto, Alfredo

The Three Evergreen Tenors

1 CD / Wellmusic /

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Otello; Luisa Miller; La traviata; Rigoletto; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Tosca; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Ambroise Tho...
Performers: Del Monaco, Mario; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Tagliavini, Ferruccio [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Quadri, Argeo; Merola, Gaetano; Erede, Alberto; Tansini, Ugo; Morel, Jean Paul; Rossi, Mario

Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector’s item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...