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Rigoletto (more info)
Performed by: Polish National Opera Orchestra Victor Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra New Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra RTBF Symphony Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra English National Opera Orchestra Europa Symphony Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra Vitaphone Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Cesare Sodero Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Jacek Kaspszyk Josef A. Pasternack Eri Klas Will Humburg Mark Elder Giulio Setti Walter Goehr Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Mario Bernardi Selmar Meyrowitz Franco Ghione Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Ettore Panizza Gennaro Papi Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Ronald Zollman Uri Mayer Charles Rosekrans Jonel Perlea Heribert Beissel Leo Blech Ivan Anguelov Wolfgang Grohs Frederic Chaslin Herman Heller
Norman Cordon, bass
John McCormack, tenor
Alida Ferrarini, soprano
Louise Homer, contralto
Nellie Melba, soprano
Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone
Beata Ulas, soprano
Agnieszka Wolna, alto
Raphaelle Paquette, soprano
Gregory Dahl, baritone
Antoine Belanger, tenor
Alexandre Sylvestre, baritone
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Claire Dux, soprano
John Rawnsley, baritone
Renato Ercolani, tenor
Plinio Clabassi, bass
Anna Maria Rota, mezzo-soprano
Roberta Peters, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Leonard Warren, baritone
Erna Berger, soprano
Jan Peerce, tenor
Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Frederic Jagel, tenor
Lucrezia Bori, soprano
Lina Pagliughi, soprano
Luisa Tetrazzini, soprano
Pasquale Amato, baritone
Josephine Jacoby, mezzo-soprano
Helen Field, soprano
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Reinald Werrenrath, baritone
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Hjordis Schymberg, soprano
Alzbeta Michalkova, contralto
Carlo Forti, bass
Thomas Harper, tenor
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Arthur Davies, tenor
Elvira Galassi, soprano
Luisa Mandelli,
Ladislav Neshyba, bass
Adriana Lazzarini, contralto
Giuse Gerbino, mezzo-soprano
Vittorio Tatozzi,
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
William Dickie,
Robert Merrill, baritone
Giorgio Tozzi,
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano
Flora Perini, mezzo-soprano
Jozef Spacek, baritone
Robert Szucs, tenor
Jozef Abel, tenor
Ivica Neshybova, soprano
Peter Subert, tenor
Jitka Saparova, contralto
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano
Thelma Altman, mezzo-soprano
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Arturo la Porta, bass-baritone
Tommaso Frascati,
Leonardo Monreale,
Lidia Grandi,
Silvana Celli,
Santa Chissari,
Andrea Mineo,
Lily Pons, soprano
John Engelman, percussion
Yordy Ramiro, tenor
Indra Thomas, soprano
Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Jean Rigby, contralto
Louis Quilico, baritone
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Jose Van Dam, baritone
Dinah Bryant, soprano
Jerome Pruett, tenor
Jeanne Gordon, contralto
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Leo Slezak, tenor
Cornelia Ptassek, soprano
Edna Thornton, contralto
Teruhiko Komori, baritone
Giovanni Paltrinieri, tenor
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Marion Talley, soprano
Allan Monk, baritone
Annamaria Popescu, mezzo-soprano
Recording date: 28 December 1935


1.   Rigoletto: Un di, se ben rammentomi - 6:02


La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (more info)
Performed by: Latvian National Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Studio orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Gottfried von der Goltz Eduardo Pedrazzoli Johannes Wildner Charles Rosekrans Joseph Keilberth Alexandrs Vilumanis
Elina Garanca, soprano
John Dickie, tenor
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto
Ira Malaniuk, soprano
Peter Offermanns,
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Hilde Zadek, soprano
Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
Gerhard Groschel, bass
Rolf Henniger, narrator
Ilse Wallenstein, soprano
Lois Marshall, mezzo-soprano
Recording date: 16-20 December 1989


2.   La Clemenza di Tito: Parto, parto - 7:07


Faust (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra New Symphony Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Georg Szell Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Danish Radio Sinfonietta Quebec Symphony Orchestra Eugene Goossens Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Studio orchestra Paris Opera Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra Sofia Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Emil Tabakov Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Alfred Newman Charles-Francois Gounod Henri Busser
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Julius Rudel Eri Klas Gilles Bellemare Felix Prohaska Walter B. Rogers Simon Streatfeild Selmar Meyrowitz Jacques Lacombe Fausto Cleva Nils Grevillius Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Thomas Beecham Helmut Froschauer Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Eugune Kohn Michail Angelov
Manon Feubel, soprano
Andreas Post, tenor
Wilfrid Pelletier, narrator
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Antonio Scotti, baritone
Dorothy Kirsten, soprano
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Georges Nore, tenor
Roger Rico, baritone
Roger Bourdin, baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Leonard Warren, baritone
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Marcel Journet, bass
Richard Crooks, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Samuel Ramey, bass
Landon Ronald, piano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Michael Cozette, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Helen Jepson, soprano
George Szell,
Brett Polegato, baritone
Thelma Votipka, mezzo-soprano
Franz Hawlata, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Indra Thomas, soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Earl Covert, vocals
Zaruhi Elmassion, vocals
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Tatjana Dravenau, piano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Anne Bollinger, soprano
Cesare Siepi, bass
Frank Guarrera, baritone
Lawrence Davidson, baritone
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Garden Farara, soprano
Gabrielle Gilibert, mezzo-soprano
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Recording date: November 1947 - June 1948


3.   Faust: Quel trouble inconnu me penetre? - 6:18
4.   Faust: Alerte, alerte! - 2:58


La boheme (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Eugene Goossens Orchestra Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Cesare Sodero Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Gerhard Steeger Rudolf Kempe Alberto Erede Victor Trucco Izler Solomon Giuseppe Antonicelli Walter Goehr Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Umberto Berrettoni Renato Cellini Fritz Zweig Frieder Weissmann Jacques Lacombe Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari Robert Heger Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Thomas Beecham Heribert Beissel Vincenzo Bellezza Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Gerhard Wiesenhutter Eugene Szenkar
Manon Feubel, soprano
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Antoine Belanger, tenor
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Gianna Corbisiero, soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Lisa Otto, soprano
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Tatiana Menotti, mezzo-soprano
Afro Poli, baritone
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Leonard Warren, baritone
Erna Berger, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Lucrezia Bori, soprano
Aurora Rettore, soprano
Robert Easton, bass
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Hilde Gueden, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Hjordis Schymberg, soprano
Carlo Forti, bass
Fabio Previati, baritone
Carmen Gonzales, soprano
Ivan Urbas, bass
Boaz Senator, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Nicola Moscona, bass
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Giacinto Prandelli, tenor
Giovanni Inghilleri, baritone
Fernando Corena, baritone
Piero De Palma, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Ildebrando Santafe, bass
Patrice Munsel, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Franco Ricciardi,
William Dazeley, baritone
Andrew Shore, bass
Robert Merrill, baritone
Dora Labbette,
Stella Andreva,
Robert Alva,
John Reardon, baritone
Giorgio Tozzi,
Lucine Amara,
William Nahr,
Thomas Powell,
George del Monte,
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Jiri Sulzenko, bass
Richard Novak, bass
Ladislav Hallon, tenor
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Marie McLaughlin, soprano
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Heddle Nash, tenor
Browning Mummery, tenor
Frederic Collier, bass
Edouard Cotreuil, bass
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Diana Soviero, soprano
Edward Johnson, tenor
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Carmen Dragon,
Raffaele Arie, bass
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Cynthia Haymon, soprano
Alastair Miles, bass
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Manuel Spatafora, baritone
Carlo Badioli, bass
Anna Moffo, soprano
Eraldo Coda, bass
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Jonathon Welch, tenor
Agnieszka Piass, soprano
John Brownlee, baritone
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Recording date: 12 December 1942


5.   La Boheme: Vecchia zimarra - 1:58


Don Giovanni, K. 527 (more info)
Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra CBC Montreal Orchestra Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia RTBF Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vienna Mozart Orchestra Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Studio orchestra Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, La Galicia Symphony Orchestra Metropolitan Orchestra Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Edward Gardner Lodovico Zocche Eri Klas Lawrance Collingwood Gaetano Merola Jean-Marie Beaudet Gilles Bellemare Victor Pablo Perez Marcus Creed Fritz Reiner John Barbirolli Walter B. Rogers Fritz Busch Umberto Berrettoni Eduardo Pedrazzoli Mario Bernardi John Pritchard Jean-Claude Malgoire Michael Halasz Konrad Leitner Bruno Walter Johannes Wildner Ronald Zollman Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw George W. Byng David Parry Gareth Hancock Frederic Chaslin John Landor
Gary Relyea, bass-baritone
Patrick Donnelly, baritone
Dominique Labelle, soprano
Liesel Fedkenheuer, mezzo-soprano
Krisztina Szabo, mezzo-soprano
John McCormack, tenor
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Pascale Beaudin, soprano
Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, baritone
Ina Souez, soprano
Luise Helletsgruber, soprano
Audrey Mildmay, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Frida Leider, soprano
Richard Tauber, tenor
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Alexander Kipnis, bass
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano
John Dickie, tenor
Koloman von Pataky, tenor
David Franklin, bass
Roy Henderson, baritone
Renato Girolami, bass
Torsten Kerl, tenor
Regina Schorg, soprano
Bo Skovhus, baritone
Ildiko Raimondi, soprano
Janusz Monarcha, bass
Thomas Allen, baritone
Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Maria Bayo, soprano
Charles Kullman, tenor
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Boaz Daniel, bass
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Nicolas Rivenq, baritone
Rose Bampton, soprano
Hubert Claessens, bass
Dino Fedri,
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Sophie Marin-Degor, soprano
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Michael Colvin, tenor
Andrea Martin, baritone
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Veronique Gens, soprano
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Simon Edwards, tenor
Jarmila Novotna, soprano
Ezio Pinza, bass
Gerald Finley, baritone
Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone
Donna Robin, soprano
Leopold Simoneau, tenor
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Michael Schade, tenor
Jose Van Dam, baritone
Ljuba Welitsch, soprano
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Cornelia Ptassek, soprano
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
John Brownlee, baritone
Alain Coulombe, bass
Danielle Borst, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Edward Pleasant, baritone
Allan Monk, baritone
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Russell Braun, baritone
Lois Marshall, mezzo-soprano
Recording date: 12 May 1939


6.   Don Giovanni: La ci darem la mano - 3:38


Don Carlo (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Gabriele Santini Eri Klas Lawrance Collingwood Gilles Bellemare Carlo Sabajno Lorenzo Molajoli Renato Cellini Nicolas Braithwaite Frieder Weissmann Fausto Cleva Oliver Dohnanyi Michael Halasz Pier Giorgio Morandi Alexander Rahbari Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Alberto Hold-Garrido David Parry Ivan Anguelov
Antonio Scotti, baritone
Plinio Clabassi, bass
Mattia Battistini, tenor
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Frida Leider, soprano
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Marian Anderson, contralto
Thomas Allen, baritone
Nazzareno de Angelis, bass
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Jaakko Ryhanen, bass
Ingrid Tobiasson, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Antonietta Stella,
Philip Tebb, bass
Orietta Moscucci,
Elena Nicolai,
Loretta Di Lelio,
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Lars Cleveman, tenor
Peter Mattei, baritone
Bengt Rundgren, bass
Hillevi Martinpelto, soprano
Iwa Sorenson, soprano
Klas Hedlund, tenor
Martti Wallen, bass
Hilde Leidland, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Giulio Neri, bass
Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano
Boris Christoff, bass
Emil Markow, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Gwyn Hughes Jones, tenor
Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Mario Filippeschi, tenor
Paolo Caroli, tenor
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
James Westman, baritone
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Recording date: April 1925


7.   Don Carlo: Son io, mio Carlo - 5:23
8.   Don Carlo: O Carlo, ascolta, la madre t'aspetta - 3:47


Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) (more info)
Performed by: Munich Radio Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Quebec Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Paris Opera-Comique Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Jacques Offenbach
Conducted by: Julius Rudel Yan Pascal Tortelier Franz Schonbaumsfeld Rosario Bourdon Mario Bernardi Simon Streatfeild Keith Clark Ondrej Lenard Pinchas Steinberg Charles Rosekrans Andre Cluytens Maurice Abravanel
Miliza Korjus, soprano
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Rene Maison, tenor
Vina Bovy, soprano
Angelo Bada, tenor
Francis Lapitino, harp
Samuel Ramey, bass
Fanely Revoil, mezzo-soprano
Renee Doria, soprano
Raoul Jobin, tenor
Elizabeth Steiner, mezzo-soprano
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Indra Thomas, soprano
Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
Elisabeth Werres, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Tracy Dahl, soprano
Marion Talley, soprano
Allan Monk, baritone


9.   Les Contes D'Hoffmann: Barcarolle - 4:00


Orlando, HWV 31 (more info)
Performed by: Moscow Chamber Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Handel Festival Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Wolfgang Katschner Christophe Rousset Charles Rosekrans Howard Arman
Alexander Weimann, harpsichord
Sara Mingardo,
Lorenzo Regazzo, bass
Constantine Orbelian, piano
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Ewa Podles, contralto
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Axel Kohler, counter-tenor
Lutz Gabler, violin
Petra Hiltawsky, horn
Gunter Strobelt, oboe
Frank Benkendorf, bassoon
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord
Recording date: August 2001


10.   Orlando: Sorge infausta una procella - 4:32


The Tempest, Z. 631, "The Enchanted Island" (more info)
Performed by: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Henry Purcell
Conducted by: Andrew Davis Kevin Mallon Charles Rosekrans John Radcliffe Williams
Nils Brown, tenor
Michael Colvin, tenor
Paul Grindlay, bass-baritone
Meredith Hall, soprano
Rosemarie van der Hooft, mezzo-soprano
Gillian Keith, soprano
Brett Polegato, baritone
Valerian Ruminski, bass


11.   The Tempest: Arise, arise ye subterranean winds - 3:03


Il trovatore (more info)
Performed by: Polish National Opera Orchestra Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Vienna State Opera Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Catania Teatro Massimo Bellini Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Jacek Kaspszyk Herbert von Karajan Eri Klas Will Humburg Clemens Schmalstich Giulio Setti Steven Mercurio Lorenzo Molajoli Walter Goehr Umberto Berrettoni Renato Cellini Mario Bernardi Jacques Lacombe Oliver Dohnanyi Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari Johannes Wildner Uri Mayer Karl Alwin Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Vincenzo Bellezza Constantine Orbelian David Parry Kurt Striegler Ivan Anguelov
Manon Feubel, soprano
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Louise Homer, contralto
Beata Ulas, soprano
Agnieszka Wolna, alto
Maria Nemeth, soprano
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Renato Ercolani, tenor
Luisa Villa, mezzo-soprano
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Frida Leider, soprano
Richard Tauber, tenor
Leonard Warren, baritone
Nathaniel Sprinzena, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Sharon Sweet, soprano
Bianca Scacciati, soprano
Enrico Molinari, tenor
Giuseppina Zinetti, soprano
Francesco Merli, tenor
Frances Alda, soprano
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto
Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano
Riccardo Stracciari, baritone
Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
Maurizio Frusoni, tenor
Zsuzsa Csonka, soprano
Franco de Grandis, bass
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Irina Tchistjakova, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Hans Hopf, tenor
Zinka Milanov, soprano
Nicola Moscona, bass
Margaret Roggero, mezzo-soprano
Paul Franke, tenor
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Alan Opie, baritone
Yaroslava Poberezhna, soprano
Ruslan Tansky, tenor
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Mark Le Brocq, tenor
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Sandor Pasztor, bass
Janos Tandari, tenor
Daniela Longhi, soprano
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Marcello Giordani, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Franco Calabrese, bass
Max Saal,
Jozsef Mukk, tenor
Giulio Mauri,
Alexander Vinogradov, bass
Hui He, soprano
Marina Domashenko, mezzo-soprano
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Indra Thomas, soprano
Louis Quilico, baritone
Roberto Servile, baritone
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Cloe Elmo, mezzo-soprano
Austin Miskell, tenor
Elsa Gutierrez, contralto
Arnaldo Garcia, piano


12.   Il Trovatore: Vanne... D'amor sull'ali rosee - 6:42


Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Milan Symphony Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Eugene Goossens Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Enrico Caruso Georges Bizet
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Argeo Quadri Gilles Bellemare Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Johannes Wildner Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Leo Blech Hanns-Martin Schneidt
Rina Gigli, soprano
Phillip Addis, baritone
Igor Morozov, baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Erna Berger, soprano
Robert Merrill, baritone
Janez Lotric, tenor
Bruno Lazzaretti,
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone
Michael Schade, tenor
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 4 July 1931


13.   Les Pecheurs de Perles: Au fond du temple saint - 5:51


Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60, TrV 228a (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Richard Strauss
Conducted by: Herbert von Karajan Mario Bernardi Manfred Honeck Charles Rosekrans Joseph Keilberth Heinrich Hollreiser
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Rita Streich, soprano
Irmgard Seefried, soprano
Alfred Neugebauer, narrator
Karl Donch, baritone
Hugues Cuenod, tenor
Erich Strauss, baritone
Lisa Otto, soprano
Grace Hoffman, contralto
Fritz Ollendorff, bass
Helmut Krebs, tenor
Frida Leider, soprano
Alfred Poell, baritone
Hugo von Hofmannsthal,
Hans Hopf, tenor
Gerhard Unger, tenor
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Peter Offermanns,
Alfred Pfeifle, tenor
Rudolf Schock, tenor
Hilde Zadek, soprano
Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
Maria von Ilosvay, contralto
Anny Felbermayer, soprano
Lisa Della Casa, soprano
Hermann Prey, bass-baritone
Walter Jenckel, tenor
Michele Crider, soprano
Sena Jurinac, soprano
Ferdinand Schnelle, tenor
Eduard Marks, narrator
Otakar Kraus, baritone
Kathe Moller-Siepermann, soprano
Heiner Horn, bass
Werner Engelhardt, bass
Gerda Sommerschuh, soprano
Horst Gunter, baritone
Tracy Dahl, soprano


14.   Ariadne auf Naxos: Seien wir wieder gut! - 2:45


Gianni Schicchi (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra Opera North Orchestra Prague Philharmonia Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Herbert von Karajan Arthur Fiedler Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Steven Mercurio Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Gareth Hancock
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Felipe Bou, bass
Jose Garcia-Quijada, baritone
Galina Gorchakova,
Mary Plazas, soprano
Ana Maria Martinez, soprano
Colin Lee, tenor
Janez Lotric, tenor
Alberto Rinaldi, baritone
Tatiana Lisnic, soprano
Mabel Perelstein, contralto
Stefano Secco, tenor
Gerardo Lopez Gamez, tenor
Sara Galli, soprano
Celestino Varela, baritone
Carlos Ruiz, bass
Claudia Marchi, mezzo-soprano
Javier Zorilla, baritone
Antonio Torres Merino, bass
Maria Callas, soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Dennis Helmrich, piano
Eugenia Zukerman, flute
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Elisabeth Schwarkopf, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Joan Hammond, soprano


15.   Gianni Schicchi: Avete torto! - 3:30


I puritani (more info)
Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Catania Teatro Massimo Bellini Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Milan
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Vincenzo Bellini
Conducted by: Richard Bonynge Will Humburg Tullio Serafin Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Alfredo Simonetto
Franco Federici, bass
Mercedes Capsir, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Lina Pagliughi, soprano
Carlo Forti, bass
Mariella Devia, soprano
Vittore Veneziani, choirmaster
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass
Angelo Mercuriali, tenor
Aurora Cattelani, soprano
Christopher Robertson,
William Matteuzzi, tenor
Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Louis Quilico, baritone
Michael Schade, tenor
Carlos Alvarez, baritone
Eleonora Jankovic, mezzo-soprano
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Paolo Washington, bass
Russell Braun, baritone


16.   I Puritani: Suoni la tromba - 3:35

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