Great Operatic Arias (Sung in English) - Alan Opie

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Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) (more info)
Performed by: Latvian National Symphony Orchestra Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra English National Opera Orchestra Torino Teatro Regio Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Milan Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Pietro Cimara Lawrence Tibbett Nathaniel Shilkret Pietro Mascagni Gioachino Rossini Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Lodovico Zocche Josef A. Pasternack Will Humburg Bruno Campanella Rudolf Kempe Alberto Erede Lorenzo Molajoli Rosario Bourdon Mario Bernardi Gabriele Bellini Michael Halasz Pier Giorgio Morandi Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Percy Pitt Richard Bradshaw Heribert Beissel Vincenzo Bellezza David Parry Alexandrs Vilumanis
Bruno Pola, baritone
Paolo Montarsolo, bass
Alberto Carusi, baritone
John McCormack, tenor
Nicoletta Curiel,
Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, baritone
Elina Garanca, soprano
Friedemann Rohlig, bass
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Luciana Serra,
Arno Schellenberg, baritone
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Richard Tauber, tenor
Luisa Tetrazzini, soprano
Thomas Allen, baritone
Nazzareno de Angelis, bass
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Maria Bayo, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Benno Ziegler, baritone
Sonia Ganassi, mezzo-soprano
Franco de Grandis, bass
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
Studio pianist, piano
Alan Opie, baritone
Ingrid Kertesi, soprano
Bruce Ford, tenor
Andrew Shore, bass
Robert Merrill, baritone
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Risto Lauriala, piano
Kazmer Sarkany, baritone
Laszlo Orban, baritone
Ferenc Korpas, bass
Maria Callas, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Ewa Podles, contralto
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Angelo Romero, bass
Michael Schade, tenor
Roberto Servile, baritone
Rockwell Blake, tenor
Enzo Dara, bass
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Ramon Vargas, tenor
Marion Talley, soprano
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord
Allan Monk, baritone
Aurelio Faedda, bass
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 1911


1.   Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Act I: La la la lera, la la la la. Here at your service to do or die am I! - 4:45


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


2.   Il trovatore (The Troubador), Act II: Recitative: All is deserted - Aria: My hour of joy approaches - Cabaletta: My hour of joy approaches (Il balen del suo sorriso) - 9:15


Dom Sebastien, roi de Portugal (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Gaetano Donizetti
Conducted by: David Parry
Alan Opie, baritone


3.   Don Sebastian, Act III: Recitative: On the African shores - Romance: Lisbon fair, beloved homeland - 6:36


Lucia di Lammermoor (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Bergamo Musica Festival Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Vitaphone Orchestra
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Enrico Caruso Gaetano Donizetti
Conducted by: Lodovico Zocche Josef A. Pasternack Will Humburg Antonino Fogliani Giulio Setti Carlo Sabajno Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Ugo Tansini Bruce Pullan Gustav Kuhn Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Richard Bradshaw Heribert Beissel Bruno Seidler-Winkler David Parry Herman Heller
Gary Relyea, bass-baritone
John McCormack, tenor
Louise Homer, contralto
Nellie Melba, soprano
Miliza Korjus, soprano
Matteo Barca, tenor
Tiziana Falco, soprano
Peter Rose, bass
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Enrico Giuseppe Iori,
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Robert Pomakov, bass
Lina Pagliughi, soprano
Giovanni Malipiero, tenor
Giuseppe Manacchini, baritone
Luciano Neroni, bass
Luisa Tetrazzini, soprano
Angelo Bada, tenor
Pasquale Amato, baritone
Marcel Journet, bass
Josephine Jacoby, mezzo-soprano
Gino Quilico, baritone
Riccardo Stracciari, baritone
Toti Dal Monte, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Charles Hackett, tenor
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Alan Opie, baritone
Robert Merrill, baritone
Hye Hun Chung Bennett, harp
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Stephen Chaundy, tenor
Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano
Minnie Egener, mezzo-soprano
Janez Lotric, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Desiree Rancatore, soprano
Luca Grassi, baritone
Roberto de Biasio, tenor
Ezio Pinza, bass
Maria Elena Barrientos, piano
Michael Schade, tenor
Charles K. North, flute
Raffaele Arie, bass
Valiano Natali, tenor
Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano
Gino Sarri, tenor
Andrea Morosini, choirmaster
Luigi Vellucci, tenor
Jose Mardones, bass
George Meader, tenor
Emma Noe, soprano
Vincenzo Maria Sarinelli, tenor
Marco Jentzsch, tenor
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
John Lemmone, flute
Jean Stilwell, mezzo-soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Tracy Dahl, soprano
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Marion Talley, soprano
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 10 April 1925


4.   Lucia di Lammermoor, Act I: Aria: You seem unhappy - Cabaletta: Trembling, I feel the horror … - 10:53


I due Foscari (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: David Parry
Alan Opie, baritone


5.   I due Foscari (The Two Foscari): Doge's Scena: I am alone … - Romance: How my old heart beats … - 5:10


Guillaume Tell (William Tell) (more info)
Performed by: Zagreb Festival Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Catania Teatro Massimo Bellini Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra
Composed by: Gioachino Rossini Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Steven Mercurio Michael Halasz Johannes Wildner David Parry
Igor Morozov, baritone
Lina Pagliughi, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Mary Plazas, soprano
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Anne Mason, mezzo-soprano
Janez Lotric, tenor
Marcello Giordani, tenor
Barry Banks, baritone


6.   Act I: Duet: Will you go? Why Are you so anxious? (Ou vas-tu?) - 9:15
7.   Aria: Keep very still now. Kneel down before me (Sois immobile) - 2:56


Attila (more info)
Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Cologne Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Lodovico Zocche Rosario Bourdon Pier Giorgio Morandi Richard Bradshaw Helmut Froschauer David Parry Ivan Anguelov Vladimir Ghiaurov
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Janice Watson, soprano
Nicola Ghiuselev, bass
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Franz Hawlata, bass
Hui He, soprano
Ezio Pinza, bass
Carlos Alvarez, baritone
Lyubomir Videnov, baritone
Marie Krikorian, soprano
Boiko Zventanov, tenor
Boris Bogdanov, tenor
Plamen Hidjov, bass
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Richard Margison, tenor


8.   Attila, Act II: Scena: Peace is concluded (Dagli immortali) - Aria: So my fate has been decided - Cabaletta: From everlasting mountains - 8:47


Ernani (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: Philharmonia Orchestra English National Opera Orchestra
Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Anatoly Maltsev Igor Agafonnikov David Parry
Peter Rose, bass
Susan Patterson, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Peter Wedd, tenor
Helen Williams, soprano
Paul Hodges, bass
Julian Gavin, tenor
John Tomlinson, bass


9.   Ernani: Duet: Since the day when first I saw you - Trio: You're Ernani! At once I despise you - 7:46
10.   Ernani, Act III: Finale: Charlemagne inspire me (O sommo Carlo) - 4:30


Pagliacci (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Ruggero Leoncavallo
Conducted by: David Parry
Peter Hall, tenor
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Rosa Mannion, mezzo-soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
William Dazeley, baritone
Peter Bronder, tenor
Peter Parfitt, bass-baritone
Paul Parfitt, bass-baritone


11.   Pagliacci: Prologue: Hello … Hello … Dear Ladies and gentlemen, you'll pardon me (Si puo? Si puo? …) - 8:14

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