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La forza del destino (more info)
Performed by: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Moscow Symphony Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle
Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Fritz Busch Ondrej Lenard Pier Giorgio Morandi Antonio de Almeida Andrew Litton


1.   La forza del destino, Act I: Overture - 7:46


La forza del destino (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Vienna State Opera Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Europa Symphony Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi James Robertson Gino Marinuzzi
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Eri Klas Gaetano Merola Rudolf Kempe Giulio Setti Rosario Bourdon Umberto Berrettoni Renato Cellini Constantine Callinicos Frieder Weissmann Oliver Dohnanyi Ondrej Lenard Pier Giorgio Morandi Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Bruno Walter Johannes Wildner Uri Mayer Karl Alwin Jukka-Pekka Saraste Richard Bradshaw Jonel Perlea Constantine Orbelian David Parry Ivan Anguelov Wolfgang Grohs
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Maria Nemeth, soprano
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Plinio Clabassi, bass
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Richard Tauber, tenor
Leonard Warren, baritone
Jan Peerce, tenor
Frederic Jagel, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Mario Lanza, tenor
Ivar Andresen, bass
Pasquale Amato, baritone
Karita Mattila, soprano
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
Carlo Tagliabue, baritone
Benno Ziegler, baritone
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Irra Petina, mezzo-soprano
Zinka Milanov, soprano
Nicola Moscona, bass
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Galina Gorchakova,
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Elena Nicolai,
Richard Tucker, tenor
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Janez Lotric, tenor
Dario Caselli, bass
Renato Capecchi,
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Maria Callas, soprano
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Hui He, soprano
Gino del Signore, tenor
Giulio Scarinci, tenor
Ottorino Bagalli, tenor
Raymond Keast, baritone
Tancredi Pasero, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Stella Roman, soprano
Louis Quilico, baritone
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Rina Cavallari, soprano
Christel Goltz, soprano
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Dmitry Kuznetsov, baritone
Anthony Michaels-Moore, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Stanley McCartney, clarinet


2.   La forza del destino, Act IV: Pace, pace, mio Dio - 5:32
3.   La forza del destino, Act III: Solenne in quest'ora - 3:34


Nabucco (more info)
Performed by: Polish National Opera Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Rome Europa Symphony Linz Bruckner Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Cologne Radio Orchestra Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Jacek Kaspszyk Oliviero De Fabritiis Daniel Oren Lorenzo Molajoli Mario Bernardi Oliver Dohnanyi Pier Giorgio Morandi Alexander Rahbari Richard Bradshaw Helmut Froschauer Ivan Anguelov Wolfgang Grohs Bernhard Klee
Masatoshi Uehara, tenor
Taemi Kohama, soprano
Maria Guleghina, soprano
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Carlo Striuli, bass
Ferruccio Furlanetto,
Nazzareno de Angelis, bass
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Maria Callas, soprano
Franz Hawlata, bass
Fabio Armiliato, tenor
Renato Bruson, baritone
Elena Zaremba, mezzo-soprano
Recording date: 27 March - 1 April 1990


4.   Nabucco, Act III: Va, pensiero, "Chorus of Hebrew Slaves" - 4:42


Ernani (more info)
Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Studio orchestra Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Cologne Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Lodovico Zocche Rosario Bourdon Mario Bernardi Oliver Dohnanyi Michael Halasz Pier Giorgio Morandi Richard Bradshaw Maurice Abravanel Helmut Froschauer Constantine Orbelian Giuliano Carella
Gary Relyea, bass-baritone
Marina Giorgio, soprano
Diego Cossu, tenor
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Daniela Dessi, soprano
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Franz Hawlata, bass
Paolo Coni, baritone
Riccardo Ristori, baritone
Vincenzo La Scola, tenor
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Recording date: 17th January, 1928


5.   Ernani, Act I: Surta e la notte... Ernani, involami - 6:45


Macbeth (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart State Orchestra Europa Symphony Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Cologne Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Walter B. Rogers Mario Bernardi Oliver Dohnanyi Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari Uri Mayer Richard Bradshaw Daniele Callegari Lothar Zagrosek Helmut Froschauer David Parry Ivan Anguelov Wolfgang Grohs
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Thomas Allen, baritone
Thomas Harper, tenor
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Franz Hawlata, bass
Giuseppe Altomare, baritone
Rubens Pelizzari, tenor
Luca Dall'Amico, bass-baritone
Louis Quilico, baritone
Carlos Alvarez, baritone
Olha Zhuravel, soprano
Pavel Kudinov, bass
Marco Voleri, tenor
William Corro, bass
Andrea Pistolesi, bass
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Allan Monk, baritone
Recording date: 2-5 August 2007


6.   Macbeth, Act IV: Patria oppressa!, "Chorus of Scottish Exiles" - 5:51


Luisa Miller (more info)
Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Catania Teatro Massimo Bellini Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Europa Symphony
Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Jesus Lopez-Cobos Steven Mercurio Michael Halasz Richard Bradshaw David Parry Wolfgang Grohs
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Thomas Allen, baritone
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Brindley Sherratt, bass
Marcello Giordani, tenor
Louis Quilico, baritone
Alastair Miles, bass
Richard Margison, tenor
Recording date: 10-16 December 2001


7.   Luisa Miller, Act II: Quando le sere al placido - 5:04


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


8.   Questa o quella - La donna e mobile (Rigoletto) - 1:40
9.   Rigoletto, Act I: Pari siamo! - 3:24
10.   Gualtier Malde... - 0:42
11.   Caro nome - 5:45
12.   Rigoletto, Act II: Cortigiani, vil razza dannata - 4:16
13.   Rigoletto, Act III: La donna e mobile - 2:59


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


14.   Anvil Chorus - 2:49
15.   Il trovatore, Act II: Il balen del suo sorriso - 3:23
16.   Ah! si, ben mio - 2:52
17.   Di quella pira - 3:18
18.   Il trovatore, Act IV: D'amor sull'ali rosee vanne - 3:47


Un ballo in maschera (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra Europa Symphony Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Dimitri Mitropoulos Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Eri Klas Gilles Bellemare Mario Bernardi Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Pier Giorgio Morandi Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Uri Mayer Richard Bradshaw Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian Ivan Anguelov Wolfgang Grohs
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Pascale Beaudin, soprano
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Renato Ercolani, tenor
Roberta Peters, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Leonard Warren, baritone
Jan Peerce, tenor
Gino Bechi, baritone
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Marian Anderson, contralto
Gaetano Scognamiglio, piano
Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano
Elda Ribetti, soprano
Nicola Niccolini, baritone
Alessandro Bonci, tenor
Aurora Rettore, soprano
Giuseppe Menni, bass
Riccardo Stracciari, baritone
Maria Pia Pagliarini, soprano
Frieda Hempel, soprano
Leon Rothier, bass
Andres De Segurola, bass
Maria Duchene, mezzo-soprano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Thomas Harper, tenor
Zinka Milanov, soprano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Janez Lotric, tenor
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Maria Callas, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Silvio Maionica,
Eugenia Ratti,
Enzo Giordano,
Hui He, soprano
Louis Quilico, baritone
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Richard Margison, tenor
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Recording date: 30 June and 1-7 July, 1943


19.   Di'tu se fedele - Ma se m'e forza perdeti (Un ballo di maschera) - 3:06

Messa da Requiem (more info)
Performed by: Hungarian Opera Orchestra Victor Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra South German Radio Symphony Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Victor De Sabata Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Jesus Lopez-Cobos Walter B. Rogers Richard Hickox Pier Giorgio Morandi Tullio Serafin Helmuth Rilling
Cesar Hernandez, tenor
Alfred Kim, tenor
Oralia Dominguez, mezzo-soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Stefania Toczyska, mezzo-soprano
Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano
Livia Budai-Batky, mezzo-soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Margaret Price, soprano
Robert Lloyd, bass
Elena Filipova, soprano
Franco de Grandis, bass
Carlo Colombara, bass
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Vittore Veneziani, choirmaster
Markella Hatziano, mezzo-soprano
Gabriel Sade, tenor
Vincente Ombuena Valls, tenor
Giuseppe Giacomini,
Ezio Pinza, bass
Gloria Scalchi, mezzo-soprano
Michele Crider, soprano
Anke Vondung, alto
Olga Romanko, soprano
Cesare Siepi, bass
Luba Orgonasova, soprano


1.   Dies Irae - 20:20
2.   Tuba mirum - 1:53
3.   Ingemisco - 3:35


La traviata (more info)
Performed by: Polish National Opera Orchestra Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Turin Radio Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Metropolitan Orchestra Sofia Symphony Orchestra Czech Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Jacek Kaspszyk Gabriele Santini Eri Klas Lawrance Collingwood Gilles Bellemare Gerhard Steeger Giulio Setti Lorenzo Molajoli Giuseppe Antonicelli Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Mario Bernardi Oliver Dohnanyi Ondrej Lenard Pier Giorgio Morandi Ettore Panizza Alexander Rahbari Robert Heger Tullio Serafin Uri Mayer Richard Bradshaw Vincenzo Bellezza Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Wilhelm Schuchter Roberto Paternostro David Parry Ivan Anguelov Michail Angelov Julian Bigg
Measha Bruggergosman, soprano
Frances Ginzer, soprano
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Carlo Galeffi, baritone
Beata Ulas, soprano
Agnieszka Wolna, alto
Caroline Bleau, soprano
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Mercedes Capsir, soprano
Lionello Cecil, tenor
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Richard Tauber, tenor
Leonard Warren, baritone
Erna Berger, soprano
Jan Peerce, tenor
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Eleanor Steber, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Frederic Jagel, tenor
Giuseppe Nessi, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano
Lucrezia Bori, soprano
Ida Conti, mezzo-soprano
Aristide Baracchi, baritone
Natale Villa, bass
Robert Pomakov, bass
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Gino Quilico, baritone
Claire Rutter, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Carlo Forti, bass
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Antonietta Stella,
Elvira Galassi, soprano
Luisa Mandelli,
Ladislav Neshyba, bass
Jan Rozehnal, choirmaster
Alma Gluck, soprano
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Vittorio Tatozzi,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
William Dickie,
Franco Ricciardi,
Robert Merrill, baritone
Monika Krause, soprano
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano
Jozef Spacek, baritone
Rannveig Braga, mezzo-soprano
Ivica Neshybova, soprano
Peter Oswald, tenor
Pavol Maurery, baritone
Peter Subert, tenor
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Brett Polegato, baritone
Ben Heppner, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Silvio Maionica,
Giuseppe Zampieri,
Susan McCulloch,
Renato Bruson, baritone
Knut Skram, bass-baritone
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Yordy Ramiro, tenor
Louis Quilico, baritone
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Michael Schade, tenor
Carmen Dragon,
Ede Gandolfo Marietti, mezzo-soprano
Ines Marietti, soprano
Francesco Albanese, tenor
Ugo Savarese, baritone
Mariano Caruso, tenor
Mario Zorgniotti, tenor
Alberto Albertini, baritone
Gino Bianchi, bass
Franco Rossi, bass
Giulio Mogliotti, choirmaster
Georg Tichy, baritone
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Fumiko Mochiki, soprano
Yasuo Yanagisawa, bass
Hiroyuko Okayama, bass
Hirochi Mochiki, tenor
Akihito Shikano, bass
Shigeru Sawa, mezzo-soprano
Kazuhiko Ichikawa, tenor
Toshiro Ishii, vocals
Katruaki Fukui, vocals
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Lucia Aliberti, soprano
John Brownlee, baritone
Jean Stilwell, mezzo-soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
James Westman, baritone
Tracy Dahl, soprano
Catherine Robbin, mezzo-soprano
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
John Oakman, tenor
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Russell Braun, baritone


4.   La traviata, Act I: Libiamo ne'lieti calici, "Brindisi" - 2:56
5.   La traviata, Act I: E strano! e strano! - 4:30
6.   La traviata, Act I: Sempre libera - 3:38
7.   La traviata, Act II: Lunge da lei per me - 3:44
8.   La traviata, Act II: Di Provenza il mar - 4:00


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


9.   Don Carlo, Act I: E lui! Desso l’Infante!...Dio, che nell’alma infondere - 7:25


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.   Act I: Se quel guerrier io fossi!...Celeste Aida - 4:27
11.   Act I: Ritorna vincitor!...I sacri nomi di padre, d'amante - 6:26
12.   Act II: Gloria all' Egitto - 3:20
13.   Act II: Grand March - 1:35
14.   Act II: Ballet Music - 4:49


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


15.   Otello, Act I: Fuoco di gioia - 2:41
16.   Otello, Act IV: Mia madre aveva una povera ancella...Piangea cantando...Ave Maria - 14:21


Falstaff (more info)
Performed by: Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra English National Opera Orchestra
Composed by: Giuseppe Verdi Arrigo Boito
Conducted by: Eri Klas Will Humburg Gilles Bellemare Carlo Sabajno Lorenzo Molajoli Paul Daniel Uri Mayer David Parry
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Giacomo Rimini, tenor
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Lina Pagliughi, soprano
Thomas Allen, baritone
Julia Faulkner, soprano
Toti Dal Monte, soprano
Franco de Grandis, bass
Dilber, soprano
Maurizio Comencini, tenor
Enrico Facini, tenor
Anna Bonitatibus, mezzo-soprano
Bruce Ford, tenor
Andrew Shore, bass
Alessandro Cosentino, tenor
Anna Maria di Micco, contralto
Louis Quilico, baritone
Roberto Servile, baritone
Domenico Trimarchi, baritone
Gretan Laperriere, baritone


17.   Ehi paggio! ... L'onore! Ladri! - 4:16

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