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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


1.   Rigoletto: Caro nome - 3:51


La boheme (more info)
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


2.   La boheme: Si, mi chiamano Mimi - 4:21
3.   La boheme: O soave fanciulla - 3:25
4.   La boheme: Donde lieta usci al tuo grido d'amore - 3:09


Tosca (more info)
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


5.   Tosca: Vissi d'arte - 3:30


Faust (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra New Symphony Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Georg Szell Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Danish Radio Sinfonietta Quebec Symphony Orchestra Eugene Goossens Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Studio orchestra Paris Opera Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra Sofia Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Emil Tabakov Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Alfred Newman Charles-Francois Gounod Henri Busser
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Julius Rudel Eri Klas Gilles Bellemare Felix Prohaska Walter B. Rogers Simon Streatfeild Selmar Meyrowitz Jacques Lacombe Fausto Cleva Nils Grevillius Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Thomas Beecham Helmut Froschauer Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Eugune Kohn Michail Angelov
Manon Feubel, soprano
Andreas Post, tenor
Wilfrid Pelletier, narrator
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Antonio Scotti, baritone
Dorothy Kirsten, soprano
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Georges Nore, tenor
Roger Rico, baritone
Roger Bourdin, baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Leonard Warren, baritone
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Marcel Journet, bass
Richard Crooks, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Samuel Ramey, bass
Landon Ronald, piano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Michael Cozette, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Helen Jepson, soprano
George Szell,
Brett Polegato, baritone
Thelma Votipka, mezzo-soprano
Franz Hawlata, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Indra Thomas, soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Earl Covert, vocals
Zaruhi Elmassion, vocals
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Tatjana Dravenau, piano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Anne Bollinger, soprano
Cesare Siepi, bass
Frank Guarrera, baritone
Lawrence Davidson, baritone
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Garden Farara, soprano
Gabrielle Gilibert, mezzo-soprano
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Recording date: November 1947 - June 1948


6.   Faust: Ah! Je ris de mer voir si belle (Air des bijoux) - 3:09


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


7.   La traviata: Ah! fors' e lui... Sempre libera - 4:20


Goodbye (Addio) (more info)
Performed by: John Barbirolli Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Francesco Paolo Tosti
Conducted by: Otto Dobrindt Giulio Setti John Barbirolli Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Recording date: 13 June 1927


8.   Good-bye - 4:17


La serenata (version for voice and orchestra) (more info)
Performed by: Studio orchestra
Composed by: Francesco Paolo Tosti
Conducted by: Dino Olivieri
Nellie Melba, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Ada Sassoli, harp
Recording date: 27 March 1907


9.   La Serenata - 3:47


Per valli, per boschi (version for voice and orchestra) (more info)
Performed by: Studio orchestra
Composed by: Felice Blangini
Conducted by: Walter B. Rogers
Nellie Melba, soprano
Charles Gilibert, baritone
Recording date: 28 March 1907


10.   Per valli, per boschi - 2:15


Un ange est venu (version for voice and orchestra) (more info)
Performed by: Studio orchestra
Composed by: Herman Bemberg
Conducted by: Walter B. Rogers
Nellie Melba, soprano
Charles Gilibert, baritone
Recording date: 28 March 1907


11.   Un ange est venu - 3:04


Si mes vers avaient des ailes (more info)
Performed by: Victor Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Reynaldo Hahn
Wilfrid Pelletier, narrator
Nellie Melba, soprano
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Landon Ronald, piano
Victor Hugo,
George Reeves, piano
Grace Moore, soprano
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
Vinson Cole, tenor
Patrick Stephens, piano
Ada Sassoli, harp
Jean Stilwell, mezzo-soprano
Robert Kortgaard, piano


12.   Si mes vers avaient des ailes - 2:20


Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492 (more info)
Performed by: Porto National Orchestra Latvian National Symphony Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Munich Chamber Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta Vienna Mozart Orchestra Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Classical Arts Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, La Linz Bruckner Orchestra Moscow State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Metropolitan Orchestra Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart James Robertson
Conducted by: Lodovico Zocche Marc Tardue Eri Klas Lawrance Collingwood Gilles Bellemare Marcus Creed Klaus-Peter Hahn Walter B. Rogers Fritz Busch Mario Bernardi Josef Krips John Pritchard Jacques Lacombe Jean-Claude Malgoire Peter Guth Michael Halasz Konrad Leitner Pier Giorgio Morandi Joseph Rescigno Richard Bradshaw Barry Wordsworth George W. Byng David Parry Alexandrs Vilumanis Hans Lowlein Frederic Chaslin
Patrick Donnelly, baritone
Annie Burgaux, soprano
Jose Canales, vocals
Stephanie Leclercq, vocals
Rigoberto Marin-Polop, baritone
Gaynor Morgan, soprano
Rebecca Ockenden, soprano
Isabelle Senges, mezzo-soprano
Jean-Marc Thoron, vocals
Manon Feubel, soprano
Claudine Le Coz, mezzo-soprano
Stuart Patterson, tenor
Valerie Lecoq, soprano
Galina Musurova, soprano
Nellie Melba, soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Elina Garanca, soprano
Gabriele Sima, contralto
Stephen Alltop, piano
Patrice Michaels, soprano
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Luise Helletsgruber, soprano
Audrey Mildmay, soprano
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Eleanor Steber, soprano
Martial Defontaine,
Lina Pagliughi, soprano
Renato Girolami, bass
Bo Skovhus, baritone
Janusz Monarcha, bass
Peter Schreier, tenor
Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Natale de Carolis, baritone
Roberto Frontali, baritone
Aulikki Rautavaara, mezzo-soprano
Constance Willis, alto
Conchita Supervia, mezzo-soprano
Christine Brewer, soprano
Landon Ronald, piano
Peter Koves, bass
Edith Lienbacher, soprano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Maria Pia Ionata, soprano
Nicolas Rivenq, baritone
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Ingrid Kertesi, soprano
Jonathan Veira, bass-baritone
Judith Howarth, soprano
John Graham Hall, tenor
Rebecca Evans, soprano
Hubert Claessens, bass
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Frances McCafferty, mezzo-soprano
Yvette Bonner, soprano
Victoria Joyce, soprano
William Dazeley, baritone
Sarah Tynan, soprano
Graeme Danby, bass
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Sophie Marin-Degor, soprano
Laura Polverelli, mezzo-soprano
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Stuart Kale, tenor
Donato di Stefano, bass
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Andrea Martin, baritone
Evgueniy Alexiev, baritone
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Jozsef Mukk, tenor
Philippe Cantor, baritone
Christopher Purves, baritone
Judith Halasz, soprano
Michelle Breedt, soprano
Michael Roider, tenor
Alexander Klinger, tenor
Orsolya Safar, soprano
Patrizia Pace, soprano
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Igor Chichagov, piano
Donna Robin, soprano
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Michael Schade, tenor
Juliane Banse, soprano
Christoph Poppen, violin
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Cornelia Ptassek, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Danielle Borst, soprano
Evelyne Brun,
Allan Monk, baritone
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 26 October - 04 November 2002


13.   Le nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete - 3:15


Hamlet (more info)
Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Studio orchestra Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Ambroise Thomas
Conducted by: Gilles Bellemare Walter B. Rogers Richard Bradshaw Constantine Orbelian
Nellie Melba, soprano
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Landon Ronald, piano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Brett Polegato, baritone
Dmitry Kuznetsov, baritone
Andrey Azovsky, tenor
John Lemmone, flute
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 29 March 1907


14.   Hamlet: A vos jeux, mes amis, permettez-moi de grace (Mad Scene, part 1) - 3:58
15.   Hamlet: Pale et blonde, dort sous l'eau profunde (Mad Scene, part 2) - 3:55


Se saran rose (more info)
Performed by: Studio orchestra
Composed by: Luigi Arditi
Conducted by: Walter B. Rogers
Nellie Melba, soprano
Landon Ronald, piano
Recording date: March 1904


16.   Se saran rose - 3:08


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


17.   Lucia di Lammermoor: Alfin son tua (Mad Scene) - 4:07


Comedy of Errors (more info)
Performed by: Studio orchestra
Composed by: Henry Bishop
Conducted by: Walter B. Rogers
Nellie Melba, soprano
Charles K. North, flute
John Lemmone, flute
Recording date: 30 March 1907


18.   Lo! Here the gentle lark - 3:05


L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 (more info)
Performed by: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Philippe Gaubert George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Walter B. Rogers Joachim Carlos Martini Alexander Weimann
Nellie Melba, soprano
Stephan MacLeod, bass
Knut Schoch, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Linda Perillo, soprano
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Charles K. North, flute
Jochen Kowalski, counter-tenor
John Lemmone, flute


19.   Il penseroso: Sweet Bird - 4:23


Mattinata, "Mary, tremando l'ultima stella" (more info)
Composed by: Francesco Paolo Tosti
Nellie Melba, soprano
Landon Ronald, piano
Recording date: 30 March 1907


20.   Mattinata, 'Mary, tremando l'ultima stella' - 2:30

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