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Famous Tenor Arias Giuseppe Verdi became the leading Italian composer of his generation, dominating Italian opera in the second half of the nineteenth...

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Famous Tenor Arias

Giuseppe Verdi became the leading Italian composer of his generation, dominating Italian opera in the second half of the nineteenth century, from the success of Nabucco in 1842 to his final opera Falstaff in 1893. Aida, with a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni from a scenario by the French egyptologist known as Mariette Bey, was written for the opening of the Cairo Opera House, where it received its first performance on Christmas Eve 1871. The drama concerns the love of the Egyptian general Radames for the Ethopian captive Aida, who is induced to betray him into divulging military plans against her country. Radames has been rewarded by the King for his victory in battle with the hand of the Princess Amneris, who loves him, and, learning of his love of Aida and his breach of military security, ensures his condemnation and death, in which he is joined by his beloved Aida. In his great aria Celeste Aida Radames, before the battle and victory, sings of his beloved Aida, whom he hopes to marry when he returns.

Un ballo in maschera, with a libretto by Antonio Somma based on a French libretto by Scribe, was first staged in Rome in 1859. The opera had been banned by the censors in Naples, who found a royal assassination a politically inappropriate subject. Historically based on the murder of King Gustavus of Sweden in the eighteenth century, the story of the opera was transferred to Boston for the Roman production, with a further transmogrification for Paris. The aria Di'tu se fedele is given to the protagonist, whether Gustavus III of Sweden, or Riccardo, Governor of Boston. In the first act of the opera he consults a fortune-teller, Mam'zelle Arvidson in the original version and the black fortune-teller Ulrica in the Rome version, overhears his beloved Amelia, wife of his secretary, declare her love for him, for which she seeks a remedy, and demands, disguised as a fisherman, his own fortune, in his aria. The woman reluctantly tells him that he will soon die, killed by one who will be the next to shake his hand. This turns out to be the secretary of the King, a loyal subject until, in the second act, he discovers his master's love for his wife. By the third act the hero has resolved to renounce his guilty love, declaring his intention in his aria Ma se m'e forza perderti, but his secretary has now joined a conspiracy against his master and friend and kills him. As he dies the King assures his secretary of Amelia's innocence.

Il trovatore, The Troubadour, with a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, was first performed in Rome in 1853. The hero Manrico, apparently the son of the gypsy Azucena, is in reality the lost son of the old Count di Luna, pitted in the opera against his real brother, the Count, his rival in love for the hand of Leonora, lady-in-waiting at the court of Aragon. In the aria Ah, si, ben mio, Manrico, who has rescued Leonora from the Count and his men and has now taken refuge in a castle besieged by the Count, sings of his love for the one who will soon be his bride. His joy is interrupted by the news that his supposed mother, the gypsy Azucena, has been taken prisoner by the Count and condemned to death for the murder of the infant Manrico himself. Manrico is determined to save Azucena, and with the virtuoso aria Di quella pira, declares his intention of saving her from burning. Leonora finally dies by her own hand, in an attempt to trick the Count into releasing Manrico, who is executed in his turn, at which Azucena reveals his true identity.

The opera Don Carlos has a libretto derived from Schiller and was first produced in Paris in 1867. The story is set in sixteenth century France and Spain and deals with an unhistorical rivalry between the Infante Don Carlos and his father, Philip II of Spain, for the love of Elisabeth de Valois, daughter of the King of France. In his first act aria lo la vidi e il suo sorriso, Don Carlos expresses his love for Elisabeth, with whom he has fallen in love at first sight.

Rigoletto, based on Victor Hugo's drama Le roi s'amuse, was transferred by the librettist Piave to sixteenth century Mantua, to avoid the predictable objections of censors in Venice, where the work was first staged in 1851. The plot deals with the fate of Gilda, daughter of the hunchback court jester Rigoletto, seduced by the disguised Duke. Rigoletto seeks to have his master murdered, but his plot goes awry, leading instead to the murder of his beloved daughter, a fact that dawns on Rigoletto when he hears his master singing again his characteristic song, La donna e mobile, Woman is fickle.

Shakespeare exercised his own fascination over the romantic imagination. Verdi turned to his work on a number of occasions, above all in his final operas Otello and Falstaff. His version of Macbeth, with a libretto by Piave, is a much earlier work, first mounted in 1847 in Florence. Macduff, a Scottish nobleman, learns of the murder of his wife and children on the orders of the regicide Macbeth, and laments their fate in the romanza Ah, la paterna mano.

Giacomo Puccini may be seen as the successor to Verdi in Italian opera. He won his first success in 1884 with the opera Le villi, his second opera, Edgar, was not well received, but his third, Manon Lescaut, was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm. La Bohème followed in 1896, based on Henry Murger's Scenes de la vie de Bohème. The first staging in Turin was directed by the conductor Toscanini to a mixed reception. Set in the artists' quarter of Paris, in a garret shared by an impecunious group of young men, the story deals with the love of the poet Rodolfo for a young seamstress, Mimi, their neighbour, a love that ends in tragedy. At their first meeting the hands of the couple meet, and Rodolfo tries to warm Mimi's hand in his, with his aria Che gelida manina, popularly translated as Your tiny hand is frozen.

Puccini's last opera, left unfinished at the time of his death, was Turandot, based on a subject treated by the eighteenth century Venetian Gozzi and later by Schiller. The Chinese Princess Turandot will only marry the suitor who can solve the three riddles she propounds, failure being rewarded by execution. Prince Calaf, son of the deposed King Timur, solves the riddles but agrees to release Turandot from her promise if she can find out his name before morning. None shall sleep tonight, the Princess commands, words that Calaf echoes in his famous aria Nessun dorma.

The opera Tosca was first performed in Rome in 1900 and is based on a play by Victorien Sardou dealing with political intrigue, love and persecution by the vicious chief of police, Baron Scarpia. The artist Cavaradossi is seen at work on a church painting of Mary Magdalene, based on the beautiful singer Tosca, with whom he is in love. In Recondita armonia, Strange harmony of contrasts, he compares his painting with a miniature of Tosca herself. As the tragedy unwinds, Cavaradossi is imprisoned for his complicity in a liberal political plot and is condemned to death, a fate from which Tosca seeks to save him. In E lucevan le stelle, The stars were shining, Cavaradossi, with one hour to live, recalls the past.

In La fanciulla del west, The Girl of the Golden West, Puccini turned to the American writer David Belasco, whose play on the subject of Madame Butterfly had earlier impressed him. The story deals with the love of Minnie and Dick Johnson, alias Ramerrez, a bandit, rescued from hanging in the nick of time, but only after he has begged his executioners to let Minnie think he has gone free, in the aria Ch'ella mi credi libero.

Leoncavallo, Puccini's rival, is remembered chiefly for only one of his ten operas, Pagliacci, a story of love and jealousy, in which Canio, with his wife Nedda, member of a troupe of travelling players, learns of her infidelity, but is bound to don the motley and act his part, in spite of his feelings of anguish. In Vesti la giubba he expresses his feelings, which in the course of the performance will lead to the death of Nedda and her lover.

Amilcare Ponchielli wrote some nine operas, of which La Gioconda alone survives in modern repertoire. In the second act of a complicated plot the hero Enzo, waiting on his boat for an assignation with Laura, wife of Alvise Badoero, a leader of the Inquisition, stands on deck, admiring, in Cielo e mar, Sky and sea, the peace of the night and expecting each moment to see his beloved. The pair have, in fact, been betrayed by the agent Barnaba, but will be re-united, thanks to the self-sacrifice of La Gioconda, who has also loved Enzo.

Umberto Giordano, like Puccini and Leoncavallo, is a representative of operatic realism, verismo, chiefly remembered for his opera Andrea Chenier, first staged in Milan in 1896. The plot is set in France in the period of the French Revolution, in which the poet Chenier is condemned to death, a fate in which he is joined by his beloved Madeleine. In Come, un bel di, the poet awaits his execution.

Puccini's greatest success was the opera Manon Lescaut, based on the novel by the Abbe Prevost which had also served Massenet for his opera Manon. The Chevalier Des Grieux persuades Manon, who is about to enter a convent, to elope with him, frustrating thereby the aims of Geronte, a rich man with whom she is later united, prefering money to love. Her return to Des Grieux brings about her downfall, transportation and final death. In the first act Des Grieux expresses his love in Donna non vidi mai, since he has never seen beauty like hers.

Thomas Harper

The American tenor Thomas Harper was born in Oklahoma but has made his home in Germany, where he is a member of the Dortmund Opera Theatre. In addition to a recent highly acclaimed American debut as Mime in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Seattle Opera, he has won enthusiastic praise for his recording of the role of Fritz in the Marco Polo recording of Franz Schreker's opera Der ferne Klang, a milestone in the current revival of operas by Schreker. In Italy, Switzerland and Germany Thomas Harper has amassed a wide and varied repertoire of some fifty roles, ranging from the Duke in Rigoletto and Radames in Aida to Anton in Alban Berg's opera Lulu and Gregor in Janacek's The Makropoulos Affair. Other important roles include that of Florestan in Fidelio, Erik in Der fliegende Hollander and the Witch in Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel.

Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava)

The Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), the oldest symphonic ensemble in Slovakia, was founded in 1929. The orchestra's first conductor was Franti?ek Dyk and over the past sixty years it has worked under the direction of several prominent Czech and Slovak conductors. The orchestra has made many recordings for the Naxos label ranging from the ballet music of Tchaikovsky to more modern works by composers such as Copland, Britten and Prokofiev. For Marco Polo the orchestra has recorded works by Glazunov, Gliere, Miaskovsky and other late romantic composers and film music of Honegger, Bliss, Ibert and Khachaturian.

Slovak Philharmonic Chorus

The Slovak Philharmonic Chorus has its origin in the Slovak Radio Chorus started by Ladislav Slovak in 1946. Since then it has developed into a large professional independent concert ensemble with a considerable reputation both at home and abroad. The repertoire of the choir ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary and it has performed with a number of the most distinguished orchestras and conductors in opera, oratorio and other works. The choir has made frequent guest appearances at major festivals in Austria, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy and elsewhere.

Michael Halasz

Michael Halasz's first engagement as a conductor was at the Munich Gartnerplatz Theater, where, from 1972 to 1975, he directed all operetta productions. In 1975 he moved to Frankfurt as principal Kapellmeister under Christoph von Dohnanyi, working with the most distinguished singers and conducting the most important works of the operatic repertoire. Engagements as a guest-conductor followed, and in 1977 Dohnanyi took him to the Staatsoper in Hamburg as principal Kapellmeister. From 1978 to 1991 he was General Musical Director of the Hagen opera house and in 1991 he took up the post of Resident Conductor of the Vienna State Opera.

Disc 1

Pagliacci

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra MGM Studio Orchestra Prussian State Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava John Barbirolli Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Stuttgart State Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Cesare Sodero Enrico Caruso Ruggero Leoncavallo
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Eri Klas Gaetano Merola Otto Dobrindt John Barbirolli Giuseppe Antonicelli Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Mario Bernardi Franco Ghione Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Lothar Zagrosek Bruno Seidler-Winkler Constantine Orbelian Giacomo Spadoni David Parry Kurt Striegler Ivan Anguelov
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Nicola Monti, tenor
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Leonard Warren, baritone
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Iva Pacetti, soprano
Mario Basiola, baritone
Giuseppe Nessi, tenor
Leone Paci, baritone
Miroslav Dvorsky, tenor
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Tito Schipa, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Boje Skovhus, baritone
Thomas Harper, tenor
Richard Wright, tenor
Hans Hopf, tenor
Paul Franke, tenor
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Raoul Jobin, tenor
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Cheryl Barker, soprano
Galina Gorchakova,
Vittore Veneziani, choirmaster
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
William Dazeley, baritone
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Nicola Martinucci, tenor
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Edward Johnson, tenor
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Allan Monk, baritone

Vesti la giubba (Canio) - 3:23

Un ballo in maschera

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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

Ma se m'� forza perderti - 5:01
Di't� se fedele (Riccardo) - 3:01

Tosca

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra MGM Studio Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Rome Teatro Reale Opera Orchestra Josef Pasternack Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Victor De Sabata Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Gerhard Lenssen Josef A. Pasternack Oliviero De Fabritiis Gaetano Merola Markus Lehtinen Gerhard Steeger Alberto Erede Lorenzo Molajoli Walter B. Rogers Franco Ghione Frieder Weissmann Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Charles Gerhardt Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Jukka-Pekka Saraste Richard Bradshaw Constantine Orbelian Giacomo Spadoni David Parry Andrew Litton Kurt Striegler Ivan Anguelov Max Rudolf
Ian Caddy, baritone
Nellie Melba, soprano
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
David Sellers, boy soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Dora Zschille, soprano
Gregory Yurisich, baritone
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Richard Tauber, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano
Miroslav Dvorsky, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Karita Mattila, soprano
Armando Borgioli, baritone
Ernesto Dominici, bass-baritone
Silvano Carroli, baritone
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Hans Hopf, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Studio pianist, piano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Jan Durco, baritone
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Dino Fedri,
Andrew Shore, bass
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Giorgio Lamberti, tenor
Andrea Piccinni, bass
Jozef Spacek, baritone
Dario Caselli, bass
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass
Angelo Mercuriali, tenor
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Franco Calabrese, bass
Alvaro Cordova, tenor
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Nelly Miricioiu, soprano
Jane Eaglen, soprano
Hui He, soprano
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Ljuba Welitsch, soprano
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Raimo Sirkia, tenor
Recording date: 31 January 1921

Recondita armonia (Cavaradossi) - 2:33
E lucevan le stelle (Cavaradossi) - 2:43

Aida

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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

Celeste Aida (Radames) - 4:29

Don Carlo

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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

lo la vidi (Don Carlos) - 3:34

Rigoletto

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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

La donna � mobile (Duke) - 2:17

La fanciulla del West

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Performed by: New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Umberto Berrettoni Frieder Weissmann Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Antonino Votto David Parry Ivan Anguelov
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Thomas Harper, tenor
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Dino Fedri,
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Edward Johnson, tenor
Jussi Bjorling, tenor

Ch'ella mi creda (Johnson) - 1:55

La boheme

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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

Che gelida manina (Rodolfo) - 4:34

Manon Lescaut

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Josef Pasternack Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Lorenzo Molajoli Giuseppe Antonicelli Umberto Berrettoni Dino Olivieri Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Richard Bradshaw Jonel Perlea Constantine Orbelian David Parry Ivan Anguelov
Giulio Fioravanti, baritone
Dino Formichini, tenor
Vito Tattone, tenor
Dorothy Kirsten, soprano
Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
Mario Carlin, tenor
Enrico Campi, bass
Anna Maria Rota, mezzo-soprano
Giuseppe Conca, choirmaster
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Susan Patterson, soprano
Fiorenza Cossotto, mezzo-soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
A. Regis Rossini, harp
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Carlo Forti, bass
Vincente Sardinero, baritone
Marcel Rosca, bass
Donald George, tenor
Thomas Harper, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Kaludi Kaludov, tenor
Franco Ricciardi,
Lucienne van Deyck, mezzo-soprano
Robert Merrill, baritone
Henk Lauwers, bass
Ludwig van Gijzegem, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Franco Calabrese, bass
Hui He, soprano
Diana Soviero, soprano
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Giuseppe Morresi, bass
Richard Margison, tenor
Giuseppe Noto, baritone
Franco Ventriglia, bass
Recording date: 26 Feb 1951

Donna non vidi mai (Des Grieux) - 2:25

Macbeth

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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

Ah, la paterna mano (Malcolm) - 3:22

Il trovatore

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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

Ah, S�, ben mio (Manrico) - 2:00

Andrea Chenier

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Umberto Giordano
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Oliviero De Fabritiis Marcello Viotti Eri Klas Carlo Sabajno Lorenzo Molajoli Umberto Berrettoni Mario Bernardi Frieder Weissmann Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Joseph Rescigno Richard Bradshaw Constantine Orbelian Kurt Striegler Ivan Anguelov
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Luigi Marini, tenor
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
Carlo Galeffi, baritone
Anna Masetti Bassi, mezzo-soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Pierre Lefebvre,
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Gino Bechi, baritone
Giuseppe Nessi, tenor
Leone Paci, baritone
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Italo Tajo, bass
Ida Conti, mezzo-soprano
Aristide Baracchi, baritone
Natale Villa, bass
Francesco Merli, tenor
Claudio Otelli, bass-baritone
Vittoria Palombini, alto
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Aureliano Pertile, tenor
Thomas Harper, tenor
Hans Hopf, tenor
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Lila Larinova, soprano
Lilia Grevtzova, soprano
Giacomo Lauri Volpi, tenor
Antonio Cortis, tenor
Cesare Formichi, baritone
Claudia Muzio, soprano
Janez Lotric, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Heinz Zednik, tenor
Hans Helm, baritone
Renato Bruson, baritone
Diana Soviero, soprano
Edward Johnson, tenor
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Gisella Pasino, mezzo-soprano
Franco Bonisolli, tenor
Maria Gulegina, soprano
Evghenia Dundekova, mezzo-soprano
Glenys Linos, mezzo-soprano
Stefano Miliani Rinaldi, bass
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Allan Monk, baritone
Recording date: 16 June 1941

Come, un bel d� (Chenier) - 2:52

La Gioconda

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Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin London Philharmonic Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Amilcare Ponchielli
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Pietro Cimini Lorenzo Molajoli Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Percy Pitt Richard Bradshaw Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Ivan Anguelov
John McCormack, tenor
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, soprano
Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano
Camilla Rota, mezzo-soprano
Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Thomas Harper, tenor
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Elvira Casazza, mezzo-soprano
Dario Zani, baritone
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Maria Amandini, contralto
Gianni Poggi, tenor
Paolo Silveri, baritone
Giulio Neri, bass
Armando Benzi, tenor
Piero Poldi, bass
Marina Domashenko, mezzo-soprano
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Recording date: September 1931

Cielo e mar (Enzio) - 4:07

Turandot

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Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra Czech Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Will Humburg Stanford Robinson Karl Bohm Walter Goehr Fritz Busch Dino Olivieri Mario Bernardi Franco Ghione Jacques Lacombe Fausto Cleva Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Richard Bradshaw Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Andrew Litton Ivan Anguelov Mikko Franck Frederic Chaslin Julian Bigg
Manon Feubel, soprano
Frances Ginzer, soprano
Mario Borriello, baritone
Renato Ercolani, tenor
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Giuseppe Nessi, tenor
Francesco Merli, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Magda Olivero, soprano
Gina Cigna, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Giovanna Casolla, soprano
Lando Bartolini, tenor
Masako Deguci, soprano
Francisco Heredia, tenor
Felipe Bou, bass
Armando Ariostini, baritone
Javier Mas, tenor
Jose Garcia-Quijada, baritone
Gorka Gerrikabeitia, tenor
Piero De Palma, tenor
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Mary Plazas, soprano
Peter Sidhom, baritone
Mark Le Brocq, tenor
Peter Wedd, tenor
Janez Lotric, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Giulio Mauri,
Jane Eaglen, soprano
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Heinrich Tessmer, tenor
Hui He, soprano
Vicenc Esteve, tenor
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Eugenio Fernandi, tenor
Elisabetta Fusco, soprano
Pinuccia Perotti, soprano
Cornelia Ptassek, soprano
Paul Schoffler, baritone
Otto Sigmund, tenor
Anne Roselle, soprano
Simon Bailey, bass
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
John Oakman, tenor
Recording date: 14-15 September, 1938

Nessun dorma (Kalaf) - 3:00

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Composer(s):
Giordano, Umberto; Leoncavallo, Ruggero; Ponchielli, Amilcare; Puccini, Giacomo; Verdi, Giuseppe

Conductor(s):
Halasz, Michael

Orchestra(s):
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Artist(s):
Harper, Thomas