Slezak, Leo: Opera Arias

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Manfred Gurlitt Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Royal Swedish Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra
Composed by: Richard Wagner Manfred Gurlitt
Conducted by: Edward Gardner Willem Mengelberg Herbert von Karajan Lawrance Collingwood Gaetano Merola Clemens Schmalstich Hans Knappertsbusch Karl Bohm Janos Ferencsik Gerd Albrecht Karl Muck Robert Heger Leif Segerstam Johannes Wildner Wilhelm Furtwangler Leo Blech Albert Coates Kurt Striegler Ivan Anguelov Simone Young
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Set Svanholm, tenor
Johan Botha, tenor
Karl Donch, baritone
Ben Davis, tenor
Gladys Parr, soprano
Hans Hermann Nissen, bass-baritone
Eugen Fuchs, baritone
Torsten Ralf, tenor
Margarete Teschemacher, soprano
Martin Kremer, tenor
Arno Schellenberg, baritone
Rudolf Dittrich, tenor
Hanns Lange, tenor
Hermann Greiner, bass
Serge Smirnoff, bass
Rudolf Schmalnauer, tenor
Ludwig Eybisch, bass
Robert Bussel, bass
Klaus Hermanns, bass
Paul Schoeffler, bass-baritone
Hugo Meyer-Welfing, tenor
Wilhelm Felden, bass
William Wergnick, tenor
Gunther Treptow, tenor
Sandor Solyom-Nagy, baritone
Richard Tauber, tenor
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Gota Ljungberg, soprano
Torsten Kerl, tenor
Regina Schorg, soprano
Richard Crooks, tenor
Hilde Gueden, soprano
Anton Dermota, tenor
Alfred Poell, baritone
Otto Edelmann, bass
Frederick Dalberg, bass
Erich Majkut, tenor
Hans Berg, bass
Erich Kunz, baritone
Heinrich Pflanzl, baritone
Josef Janko, tenor
Karl Mikorey, tenor
Gerhard Stolze, tenor
Heinz Tandler, bass
Heinz Borst, tenor
Arnold van Mill, bass
Hans Hopf, tenor
Gerhard Unger, tenor
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Ira Malaniuk, soprano
Werner Faulhaber, bass
Folke Alin, piano
Christina Hornell, choirmaster
Josef Herrmann, baritone
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Michaela Schuster, mezzo-soprano
Gerald Finley, baritone
Else Schurhoff, soprano
Helen Jung, mezzo-soprano
Friedrich Schorr, bass-baritone
Goran Eliasson, tenor
Harald Proglhof, baritone
Franz Bierbach, bass
Ljubomir Pantscheff, bass
Hermann Gallos, tenor
Leo Slezak, tenor
John Treleaven,
Sven Nilsson, bass
Recording date: 13th Nov, 1940


1. Am stillen Herd (Stolzing) - 00:04:03
2. Morgendlich leuchtend (Stolzing) - 00:04:17


Tannhauser (more info)
Performed by: Bratislava Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra WDR Symphony Orchestra Maastricht Limburg Symphony Orchestra Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Manfred Gurlitt Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Swedish Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra Bavarian State Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Stuttgart State Orchestra Linz Bruckner Orchestra Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Richard Wagner Manfred Gurlitt
Conducted by: Edward Gardner Eri Klas Frederik IX (King of Denmark) Gaetano Merola Karl Bohm Mario Bernardi Yakov Kreizberg Karl Elmendorff Ed Spanjaard Gerd Albrecht Artur Bodanzky Michael Halasz Georges Sebastian Karl Muck Michael Schonwandt Leif Segerstam Johannes Wildner Jukka-Pekka Saraste Richard Bradshaw Lothar Zagrosek Constantine Orbelian Roberto Paternostro David Parry Ivan Anguelov Hanns-Martin Schneidt Kurt Woss Bernhard Klee
Alexandre Sylvestre, baritone
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Theodor Scheidl, baritone
Frida Leider, soprano
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Maria Muller, soprano
Ruth Jost-Arden, soprano
Sigismund Pilinszky, tenor
Ivar Andresen, bass
Herbert Janssen, baritone
Karita Mattila, soprano
Thomas Allen, baritone
Charlotte Margiono, soprano
Christine Brewer, soprano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Astrid Varnay, soprano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Gwyneth Jones, soprano
Folke Alin, piano
Christina Hornell, choirmaster
Juha Uusitalo, bass-baritone
Brett Polegato, baritone
Gerald Finley, baritone
Susanne Clemens, vocals
Hermann Prey, bass-baritone
Gabor, vocals
Wolfe, vocals
Marianne Schech, soprano
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Leo Slezak, tenor
John Treleaven,
Giovanni Paltrinieri, tenor
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Allan Monk, baritone
Recording date: 9 October 1949


3. Tannhauser: Inbrunst im Herzen (Tannhauser) - 00:15:57


Lohengrin (more info)
Performed by: WDR Symphony Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra Seattle Symphony Orchestra Maastricht Limburg Symphony Orchestra Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra Victor Symphony Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Royal Swedish Orchestra Russian State Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Linz Bruckner Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Sten Frykberg Richard Wagner William Lawrence Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Willem Mengelberg Gaetano Merola Clemens Schmalstich John McGlinn Karl Bohm Frieder Weissmann Ed Spanjaard Gerd Albrecht Erich Leinsdorf Karl Muck Eugene Ormandy Leif Segerstam Johannes Wildner Michael Gielen Joseph Keilberth Semyon Bychkov Gerard Schwarz Roberto Paternostro David Parry Ivan Anguelov Simone Young Bernhard Klee
Sandor Sved, baritone
Norman Cordon, bass
Mack Harrell, baritone
Emmy Bettendorf, soprano
Nellie Melba, soprano
Johan Botha, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Eleanor Steber, soprano
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano
Torsten Kerl, tenor
Richard Crooks, tenor
Kwangchul Youn, baritone
Charlotte Margiono, soprano
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Kerstin Thorborg, contralto
Christine Brewer, soprano
Astrid Varnay, soprano
Wolfgang Windgassen, tenor
Josef Janko, tenor
Gerhard Stolze, tenor
John Horton Murray, tenor
Margaret Jane Wray, soprano
Edwin McArthur,
Gwyneth Jones, soprano
Folke Alin, piano
Christina Hornell, choirmaster
Petra Lang,
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Eike Wilm Schulte, baritone
Josef Greindl, bass
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Hans Braun, baritone
Hermann Uhde, baritone
Alfons Herwig, baritone
Theo Adam, bass
Wilhelm Pitz, choirmaster
Leo Slezak, tenor
Falk Struckmann, baritone
John Treleaven,
Ruby Elzy, soprano
Recording date: 17 October 1937


4. Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan (Lohengrin) - 00:02:03
5. Hochstes Vertrau'n (Lohengrin) - 00:03:22
6. In fernem Land, 'Lohengrin's Narration' (Lohengrin) - 00:04:09
7. Mein lieber Schwan (Lohengrin) - 00:03:56


Otello (more info)
Performed by: Polish National Opera Orchestra Grosses Rundfunkorchester Dresden Victor Orchestra Milan Symphony Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra English National Opera Orchestra Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Russian Philharmonia
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi Arturo Toscanini Arrigo Boito James Robertson Hans-Hendrik Wehding
Conducted by: Edward Gardner Jacek Kaspszyk Argeo Quadri Mark Elder Alberto Erede Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Mario Bernardi Frieder Weissmann Oliver Dohnanyi Ettore Panizza Alexander Rahbari Johannes Wildner Uri Mayer Vincenzo Bellezza Constantine Orbelian Ivan Anguelov Mikko Franck
Rina Gigli, soprano
Nellie Melba, soprano
Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone
Beata Ulas, soprano
Agnieszka Wolna, alto
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Tino Pattiera, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
Leonard Warren, baritone
Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano
Nathaniel Sprinzena, tenor
Thomas Motto, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Nicola Moscona, bass
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Rosalind Plowright, mezzo-soprano
Charles Craig, tenor
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Janez Lotric, tenor
Thelma Votipka, mezzo-soprano
Leslie Chabay, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Ramon Vinay,
Herva Nelli,
Virginio Assandri,
Arthur Newman,
Ben Grauer,
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Gerald Finley, baritone
Bernd Aldenhoff, tenor
Antonio Tonini,
Louis Quilico, baritone
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Rosanna Carteri, soprano
Leo Slezak, tenor
Nicholas Massue, tenor
Giovanni Paltrinieri, tenor
Recording date: 23 January 1924


8. Ora e per sempre addio (Otello) - 00:02:11
9. Niun mi tema (Otello) - 00:03:52


Aida (more info)
Performed by: Polish National Opera Orchestra Victor Orchestra Vienna Symphony Orchestra Vienna State Opera Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Sofia National Opera Orchestra Ireland National Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana Radio Symphony Orchestra Bruno Seidler-Winkler Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Irish Army No. 1 Band Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra Stuttgart State Orchestra Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra Europa Symphony Linz Bruckner Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi Colin Mawby
Conducted by: Jacek Kaspszyk Gaetano Merola Clemens Schmalstich Alberto Erede Giulio Setti Lorenzo Molajoli Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Herman Weigert Mario Bernardi Oliver Dohnanyi Hanspeter Gmur Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Pier Giorgio Morandi Ricco Saccani Tullio Serafin Ivan Marinov Karl Alwin Jukka-Pekka Saraste Jonel Perlea Lothar Zagrosek Bruno Seidler-Winkler Constantine Orbelian David Parry Ivan Anguelov Wolfgang Grohs Marko Munih Bernhard Klee
John McCormack, tenor
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Louise Homer, contralto
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
Carlo Galeffi, baritone
Beata Ulas, soprano
Agnieszka Wolna, alto
Maria Nemeth, soprano
Mario Carlin, tenor
Plinio Clabassi, bass
Peter Rose, bass
Giuseppe Conca, choirmaster
Gregory Yurisich, baritone
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Bruna Rizzoli, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Frida Leider, soprano
Leonard Warren, baritone
Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Italo Tajo, bass
Francesco Ellero d' Artegna, bass
Maria Dragoni, soprano
Richard Crooks, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Karita Mattila, soprano
Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano
Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
Barbara Dever, mezzo-soprano
Mark Rucker, baritone
Thomas Harper, tenor
Astrid Varnay, soprano
Zinka Milanov, soprano
Fernando Corena, baritone
Piero De Palma, tenor
Kristjan Johannson, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Alfred Boe, tenor
Lucy Isabelle Marsh,
Elvira Galassi, soprano
Rosalind Plowright, mezzo-soprano
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Franco Ricciardi,
Nicola Ghiuselev, bass
Richard Tucker, tenor
Giuseppe Modesti,
Riccardo Ferrari, bass
Antonio Marceno, tenor
Monica Trini, soprano
Susan Gritton, soprano
Mario Del Monaco, tenor
Aldo Protti, baritone
Dario Caselli, bass
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Elsie Baker,
Jane Eaglen, soprano
Boris Christoff, bass
Emil Schipper, baritone
Hui He, soprano
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Alastair Miles, bass
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Alexandrina Milcheva, mezzo-soprano
Maria Dimchevska, soprano
Verter Vrachovsky, tenor
Yulia Wiener-Chinesheva, soprano
Nikola Nikolov, tenor
Nikolay Smochevsky, baritone
Stefan Tsiganchev, bass
Leo Slezak, tenor
Richard Margison, tenor
Johanna Gadski, soprano
Juan Perez, tenor
Recording date: 12th May, 1928 / 11th May, 1928


10. Aida: Holde Aida (Radames) - 00:04:12


Il trovatore (Sung in German) (more info)
Performed by: Studio orchestra
Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi
Leo Slezak, tenor


11. Il Trovatore: Dass nur fur mich dein Herz erbet (Manrico) - 00:03:06


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


12. Rigoletto: Ach, wie so trugerish (Herzog) - 00:02:07


Les Huguenots (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Bruno Weyersberg Orchestra
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Giacomo Meyerbeer
Conducted by: Bruno Weyersberg
Leo Slezak, tenor
Recording date: 27 February 1905


13. Wer bist du, himmlisch schones Wesen? (Raoul) - 00:02:17
14. Ach, Welch ein reizendes Bild (Raoul) - 00:03:43


Le prophete (The Prophet) (Sung in German) (more info)
Performed by: Bruno Weyersberg Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Conducted by: Bruno Weyersberg
Leo Slezak, tenor


15. Le Prophete: Herr, dich in den Sternenkreisen (Jean) - 00:03:16


L'Africaine (Sung in German) (more info)
Performed by: Bruno Seidler-Winkler Orchestra Eduard Kunneke Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Composed by: Eduard Kunneke Giacomo Meyerbeer
Conducted by: Clemens Schmalstich Bruno Seidler-Winkler
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Leo Slezak, tenor


16. L'Africaine: Land so wunderbar (Vasco) - 00:03:11

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