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Duets and Arias from Italian Operas Verdi's La forza dei destino (The Force of Destiny) was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1862. Set in mid-eighteenth...

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Duets and Arias from Italian Operas

Verdi's La forza dei destino (The Force of Destiny) was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1862. Set in mid-eighteenth century Spain and Italy, the opera deals with the love of Leonora, daughter of the Marquis of Calatrava, and Don Alvaro. The couple plan to elope, but are surprised by Leonora's father, who is accidentally killed, and dies cursing his daughter. Don Carlos, disguised as a student, seeks out his sister and her lover, the former a fugitive, now disguised as a man. She later conceals herself in a hermitage, while Alvaro, believing her dead and also in disguise, does valiant service in Italy, rescuing Carlos from death. In the last act Alvaro has become a monk, near the hermitage of Leonora. He is discovered by Don Carlos, who still seeks revenge, and is challenged by him in Invano Alvaro - Le minaccie, i fieri accenti. The patience of Alvaro, turned monk, is exhausted and the two fight.

Carlos is wounded and help is sought from the hermit, Leonora, whom Carlos has just the strength to kill, as he dies, thus securing vengeance. The earlier duet between Carlos and Alvaro, Solenne in quest'ora, occurs in the third act, when Alvaro is wounded in battle, and asks Carlos to carry out his last wishes and destroy unopened certain papers he has with him, papers that would reveal his identity.

Verdi's Rigoletto, first performed in Venice in 1851, is based on Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse. Alter various changes in period, the action was finally set in sixteenth century Mantua, where the licentious Duke has his will with women, including the wives of his courtiers. In this he is aided by the cynical hunchback jester Rigoletto, cursed by one of the courtiers whose daughter the Duke has seduced. The curse has its effect when it is discovered that Rigoletto has a daughter, Gilda, prey of the Duke, in disguise, and finally his victim. Rigoletto's planned revenge, by means of a hired assassin, fails when Gilda herself is killed, leaving the Duke himself unharmed. In Pari siamo, We are alike, Rigoletto, accosted by the murderer Sparafucile, who offers him his services, reflects on the similarity of their situations; both of them are hirelings. In Cortigiani, vil razza dannata, Vile cursed race of courtiers, Rigoletto, in anguish at the seizure of his daughter by a band of courtiers, inveighs against them.

Amilcare Ponchielli is best known today for his opera La Gioconda, although in his own time he occupied a leading position in the world of Italian opera. The libretto by Boito is based on the play Angelo, tyran de Padoue, by Victor Hugo, and deals with the tragic betrayal and death of the singer of the title, in love with Enzo Grimaldo, prince of Genoa, and desired by the evil state spy Barnaba. In the first act, set in Venice, Enzo, proscribed in Venice and therefore disguised as a Dalmatian sea-captain, is recognised by Barnaba, who observes signs of recognition between Enzo and Laura, wife of Alvise, a member of the ruling council of Venice. Enzo is pledged to La Gioconda, but had earlier loved Laura, and Barnaba now offers his assistance to Enzo, seeking his own revenge on La Gioconda, who has rejected his advances. Enzo, in spite of his better judgement, accepts Barnaba's help.

L'elisir d'amore, The Elixir of Love, by Donizetti, was first staged in Milan in 1832. The peasant Nemorino loves Adina, and seeks to further his cause by drinking a love-philtre sold to him by the quack-doctor Dulcamara. The sergeant Belcore is Nemorino's rival and when the latter needs more money to buy a second bottle of elixir from Dr. Dulcamara he persuades him to enlist, an action which will bring him at once twenty scudi. In the end all ends happily for Nemorino and Adina, while Belcore is content to try his fortune with other girls.

Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, first performed in Rome in 1888, and Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, first staged in Milan in 1892, are often coupled in a double bill. Both operas offer a degree of realism, the first a village drama of love and jealousy and the second based on an actual criminal case. Turiddu, once pledged to Santuzza, is in love with Lola, wife of the village teamster Alfio. In the Prelude to the opera Turiddu sings of his admiration for Lola. The later scene brings Alfio and Turiddu together. Santuzza, in jealousy, has told Alfio that Turiddu has been with his wife, and now the two confront each other and prepare to settle the matter between them in a duel to the death. In the event it is Turiddu who is killed.

I Pagliacci presents the very real jealousies and loves of actors, compelled to perform before the public, whatever their feelings. Life intervenes when the actor Canio, rightly jealous of his young wife Nedda, murders her on stage, provoked by the machinations of the hunchback clown Tonio. It is Tonio who introduces the drama with a prologue.

Verdi's opera Don Carlo, with a libretto adapted from the play by Schiller, was first mounted in Paris in 1867, to be revised and staged in Milan in its new form in 1884. The drama centres on the love of Don Carlo, son of Philip II of Spain, and his father's third wife, Elisabetta. Matters are further complicated by the activities of Rodrigo, eager for the liberation of the Spanish Netherlands and enlisting Carlo in his cause.

Giacomo Aragall

The Spanish tenor Giacomo Aragall was born in Barcelona and as a child was a chorister at Santa Maria dei Mar. He embarked on serious study as a singer i at the age of nineteen with Jaime Francesco Puig and success in the 1962 Bilbao J Singing Competition won him a scholarship for study in Milan with Vladimiro i Badiani. In the same year he won first prize in the Voci Verdiani Competition in Bussetto. After his acclaimed debut at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in the opera Gerusalemme and outstanding success in Palermo, he was engaged by La Scala, Milan, where he sang in La Boh�me and L'amico Fritz, the youngest tenor to make his debut there. Appearances in the other major Italian opera-houses, followed. In 1965 he sang in Rigoletto at the Verona Arena and three years later made his debut at the Metropolitan in New York. Since then he has appeared in the principal opera-houses of Europe and the Americas. He has recorded major operatic roles for companies that include Decca, Erato/RCA and Eurodisc.

Eduard Tumagian

The baritone Eduard Tumagian made his debut at La Scala in the role of Nabucco, under the direction of Riccardo Muti. He has since appeared at the same opera-house in the first staging of Flavio Testi's opera Richard III in 1987 and in Verdi's I due Foscari and I Vespri Siciliani in 1988 and 1989. He has also appeared at the Opera in Paris, in Lyon, Toulouse, Montpellier, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Z�rich and Amsterdam. He made his first stage appearance at the opera in Bucharest, his native city, and after victory in a number of international competitions he was invited to appear at the Opera of the Rhine in Strasbourg, where he sang the roles of Posa, Germont, Rigoletto and Scarpia. In 1985 he sang the part of Napoleon in a concert performance of Prokofiev's War and Peace under Mstislav Rostropovich which was later recorded. Eduard Tumagian made his American debut in 1986 in La forza dei destino in Pittsburgh and later roles in America have included Nabucco

under Riccardo Muti in Philadelphia and New York.

Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava)

The Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), the oldest symphonic ensemble in Slovakia, was founded in 1929 at the instance of Milos Ruppeldt and Oskar Nedbal, prominent personalities in the sphere of music. Ondrej Lenard was appointed its conductor in 1970 and in 1977 its conductor-in- chief. The orchestra has given successful concerts both at home and abroad, in Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Hong Kong and Japan. 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 as well as several volumes of the label's Johann Strauss Edition. Naxos recordings include symphonies and ballets by Tchaikovsky, and symphonies by Berlioz and Saint-Sa�ns.

Alexander Rahbari

Alexander Rahbari was born in Iran in 1948 and was trained as a conductor at the Vienna Music Academy as a pupil of von Einem, Swarowsky and �sterreicher.

On his return to Iran he was appointed director of the Teheran Conservatory of Music and took a leading position in the cultural development of his country. In 1977 he moved to Europe, winning first prize in the Besan�on International Conductors' Competition and the Geneva silver medal. In the 1986- 87 season he appeared for the first time with the BRT Philharmonic and in September 1988, accepted appointment as principal conductor.

Disc 1

La forza del destino

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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

Invano Alvaro - Le minaccie (Carlos and Alvaro) - 8:23
Solenne in quest'ora (Carlos and Alvaro) - 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

Pari siamo! (Rigoletto) - 3:30
Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Rigoletto) - 4:20

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

Enzo Grimaldi, Principe di Santafior (Enzo and Barnaba) - 5:39

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love)

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Milan Symphony Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra John Barbirolli Orchestra Parlophon Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Sten Frykberg Enrico Caruso Gaetano Donizetti
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Stanford Robinson Argeo Quadri Clemens Schmalstich John Barbirolli Giuseppe Antonicelli Rosario Bourdon Selmar Meyrowitz Nils Grevillius Pier Giorgio Morandi Alexander Rahbari Richard Bradshaw Felix Gunther Niels Muus David Parry John Landor
Andreas Post, tenor
John McCormack, tenor
Rina Gigli, soprano
Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone
Salvatore Baccaloni, bass
Ferruccio Tagliavini, tenor
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Richard Crooks, tenor
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Tito Schipa, tenor
Roberto Frontali, baritone
Alessandra Ruffini, soprano
Simone Alaimo, baritone
Mariangela Spotorno, baritone
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Studio pianist, piano
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Valeria Esposito,
Aquiles Machado, tenor
Roberta Canzian,
Marjorie Heyward,
Mary Plazas, soprano
Bruce Ford, tenor
Andrew Shore, bass
Ashley Holland, baritone
Enrico Marrucci,
Erwin Schrott, baritone
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Vincenzo La Scola, tenor
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Michael Schade, tenor
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Barry Banks, baritone
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Tatjana Dravenau, piano
Patrick Marques, tenor
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: Broadcast on 24 December, 1949

Venti scudi (Nemorino and Belcore) - 7:24

Cavalleria rusticana

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Swedish Radio Orchestra Moscow Symphony Orchestra Pierre Rameau Orchestra Catania Teatro Massimo Bellini Orchestra Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Romanian Opera Orchestra, Bucgarest
Composed by: Sten Frykberg Enrico Caruso Pietro Mascagni
Conducted by: Gaetano Merola Enrico Sivieri Victor Trucco Giulio Setti Carlo Sabajno Steven Mercurio Klaus-Peter Hahn Lorenzo Molajoli Pierre Rameau Renato Cellini Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Antonio de Almeida Constantine Orbelian Ivan Anguelov Mircea Popa
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
Ebe Ticozzi, mezzo-soprano
Ferruccio Tagliavini, tenor
Kitty Wilson, harp
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Gino Bechi, baritone
Maria Marcucci, mezzo-soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Stefka Evstatieva, soprano
Francis Lapitino, harp
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Alzbeta Michalkova, contralto
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Zinka Milanov, soprano
Margaret Roggero, mezzo-soprano
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Galina Gorchakova,
Claramae Turner, contralto
Vittore Veneziani, choirmaster
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Robert Merrill, baritone
Marcello Giordani, tenor
Maria Arghiracopulos, mezzo-soprano
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Anna di Mauro, mezzo-soprano
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Carol Brice, contralto
Diana Soviero, soprano
Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Cornel Stavru, baritone
Recording date: Week ending 5 December 1919

Prelude (Turiddu) - 8:01
A voi tutti salute (Alfio, Turiddu and Lola) - 5:02

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

Si puo?... Si puo?... Signore! Signori! (Tonio) - 4:24

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

E lui ... Dio, che nell'alma (Carlo and Rodrigo) - 7:24

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Composer(s):
Donizetti, Gaetano; Leoncavallo, Ruggero; Mascagni, Pietro; Ponchielli, Amilcare; Verdi, Giuseppe

Conductor(s):
Rahbari, Alexander

Orchestra(s):
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Artist(s):
Aragall, Giacomo; Tumagian, Eduard